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Identity work in the backstage: Exploring the role of expatriate bubbles in identity work of self-initiated expatriate engineers through a Goffmanian lens (2022)
Journal Article
Papafilippou, V., & Efthymiadou, C. (2023). Identity work in the backstage: Exploring the role of expatriate bubbles in identity work of self-initiated expatriate engineers through a Goffmanian lens. Journal of Global Mobility, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-06-2022-0031

Purpose: While there is vast research on expatriate adjustment, it is still known very little on how self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) in particular might cope with identity conflicts and how they engage with identity work. What is more, although the... Read More about Identity work in the backstage: Exploring the role of expatriate bubbles in identity work of self-initiated expatriate engineers through a Goffmanian lens.

Women's formal networking: The relationship between networking activities and power (2022)
Journal Article
Papafilippou, V., Durbin, S., & Conley, H. (2022). Women's formal networking: The relationship between networking activities and power. Gender, Work and Organization, 29(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12869

This article examines the networking that takes place within formally organized internal (organization-based) and external (industry-based) women engineers' networks. Drawing upon 48 interviews with women engineers, across a number of industries and... Read More about Women's formal networking: The relationship between networking activities and power.

Transitions from higher education to employment among recent graduates in England: Unequal chances of achieving desired possible selves (2018)
Book Chapter
Papafilippou, V., & Bathmaker, A. (2018). Transitions from higher education to employment among recent graduates in England: Unequal chances of achieving desired possible selves. In H. Henderson, J. Stevenson, & A. Bathmaker (Eds.), Possible Selves and Higher Education (111-126). London: Routledge

This chapter uses the concept of possible selves to examine processes of making the transition from undergraduate study to the world of work in England, focusing specifically on career futures in the accountancy sector. Inequalities in access to high... Read More about Transitions from higher education to employment among recent graduates in England: Unequal chances of achieving desired possible selves.

Gendered transitions, career identities and possible selves: the case of engineering graduates (2017)
Journal Article
Papafilippou, V., & Bentley, L. (2017). Gendered transitions, career identities and possible selves: the case of engineering graduates. Journal of Education and Work, 30(8), 827-839. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2017.1375088

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article, drawing upon the Paired Peers project, a longitudinal qualitative study (n=90), examines how seven UK engineering graduates, four women and three men, construct their caree... Read More about Gendered transitions, career identities and possible selves: the case of engineering graduates.