How to Embrace Academic Failure: Building a Career with Meaning, Integrity and Honesty

Tara Brabazon

doi:10.4337/9781035342815

How to Embrace Academic Failure: Building a Career with Meaning, Integrity and Honesty

Tara Brabazon

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

This compelling book explores current attitudes towards failure in academia. Tara Brabazon argues that success and failures are rarely linked and instead failure can be harnessed as both a diagnostic and a literacy to improve research integrity, authenticity, accountability and consciousness.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Cheltenham, UK
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Number of pages	178
ISBN (Electronic)	9781035342815, 9781035370634
ISBN (Print)	9781035342808
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035342815
Publication status	Published - 2025

Keywords

Failure
Failure Studies
Power Asymmetries
Research Integrity
Academic Integrity
Academic Development

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