Professional Identity - a nerdfully interesting concept?
Why yes, this was my dissertation topic! Why do you ask?
Long story short, professional identity can refer to a person in relationship to their profession or the profession’s way of being. Both are context dependent and influenced by the people involved.
(I’ll be elaborating on this in a blog post when time allows, but the citations in the graphic below are helpful places to start, and of course I recommend the lit review section of my dissertation!)