Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces

Tomlinson, Michael (2024) Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces. Journal of Youth Studies, 27 (8), 1079-1096. (doi:10.1080/13676261.2023.2199148).

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This article develops and applies the concept of liminality andliminal identities to illustrate the relative positioning of graduateswithin the transitional spaces of moving from one institutionalcontext to another and navigating an uncertain and challenginglabour market. The current pandemic-affected labour marketprovided a rich context through which recent graduates have tosense-make and negotiate a future identity trajectory,exacerbating challenges evident over the past several decades.Drawing on qualitative interview data with recent graduates, thisarticle depicts the liminal spaces they occupy through a typologyof transitional positionings, including movement between thesespaces. These ideas carry wider implications for supportinggraduates’transition to a challenging and volatile labour market.

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