Dear Colleagues,
We are conducting a research study titled "Imposters in Academia: Sensemaking of Professional Identity." It focuses on Imposter Phenomenon, which is "a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. 'Imposters' suffer from chronic self-doubt and a sense of intellectual fraudulence that override any feelings of success or external proof of their competence" (Corkingdale, 2008 in the Harvard Business Review).
If you are a higher education faculty and have been employed for at least 6 months, we would like to invite you to participate in an interview on your experiences of feeling like an imposter in your professional domain. Specifically, we are interested in what prompts feelings of being an imposter (including individual and organizational factors), how it affects faculty members' sense of professional identity, and how they address it in the short and long-term.
Your participation in this research is voluntary, and you can withdraw at any point. Each interview is expected to last 60 – 90 minutes.
If you are interested in speaking with us and/ or would like more information, please respond to this post. Alternatively, the principal investigator, Yasanthi Perera, may be contacted at bperera@brocku.ca. If you choose to participate in this research, we will email you a detailed consent form with additional information about the study, how your privacy will be safeguarded, and your rights in terms of withdrawing from the research, even after the interview has been conducted.
For taking the time to share your perspectives with us, we offer a gift card $25 as a token of our appreciation.
Brock University's Research Ethics Board (REB) has granted clearance for this research (23-349-PERERA), and the REB may be contacted at reb@brocku.ca.
Thank You
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Khadija Al Arkoubi
University of New Haven
Pompea College of Business
West Haven, CT
(203) 479-4215
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