Scholarly/Professional Identity Mapping (SIM).

Abstract

Scholarly Identity Mapping (SIM) is one of a package of tools practitioner-scholars can use to clarify their understanding of their professional and scholarly identities and sense of calling as expressed through their values and public purposes. SIM supports individuals in reflect on the integrative dimensions of their work, with special attention given to public engagement and the public purposes of higher education. SIM can also be implemented within a cohort or as part of a coaching process, called Scholar Whispering (Price, 2018), that supports practitioner-scholars at all career stages in their agenda setting, project and career planning as well as documentation publicly engaged, translational and service-based scholarship. This resource presents provide a self-directed resource guide to complete SIM.