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Navigating Academic Identity: A Qualitative Exploration of Graduate Students' Conference Participation Behaviors and
Mengting Qian1,2, Zeqing Xu1, Chunshun Yan1,3
1Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai 200062, China.
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
|February 27, 2026
Summary
Graduate students use academic conferences to combat alienation and build professional identity. Conference participation helps them reconnect with scholarly work and community, fostering development amid academic pressures.
Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Education
- Higher Education Studies
Background:
- Academic environments face increasing competition and pressure.
- Graduate students experience academic alienation, impacting their scholarly engagement and community belonging.
- Academic socialization theory provides a framework for understanding student development.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate graduate students' engagement with academic conferences.
- To explore conferences as sites for professional development and identity construction.
- To understand how conference participation influences academic socialization and counteracts alienation.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative study employing interpretive phenomenological approach.
- Semi-structured interviews conducted with 18 graduate students from diverse disciplines in China.
- Reflexive thematic analysis used to identify participation orientations.
Main Results:
- Four participation orientations identified: knowledge-seeking, competence-building, network-oriented, and identity-exploratory.
- Academic alienation manifests as disconnection, superficial interactions, and weakened community.
- Conference participation serves as a transformative mechanism against alienation, fostering meaning, dialogue, and community ties.
Conclusions:
- Academic conferences are crucial for graduate student professional development and identity formation.
- Conference engagement can mitigate academic alienation by enhancing scholarly connection and community.
- Findings offer a framework for supporting graduate students in competitive academic climates.
Keywords:
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