An Investigation into individual meaning, knowledge production and research identities of creative industries entrepreneurship scholars to map their academic careers in uncertain time

This paper investigates the stories of the researchers in creative industries entrepreneurship field to map their research identities and understand academic performances in uncertain times. We start by reviewing relevant literature in the field of identity and creative industries research and then discuss the plan for the research methodology and the findings. This study plans to investigate the academic publication journeys of researchers in the field of creative industries and identify how researchers employ their sense of self to create meaning of their experience Bennett and Hennekam, 2018. We want to ask respondents to tell us the story of their academic publication journey based on the work of Ibarra 2003, Ibarra and Barbulescu 2010 and Bennett and Hennekam 2018. By using a story telling approach we will be able to create meaning of various and contradictory experiences Hoyer and Steyart, 2015. The study will be conducted in the United Kingdom. Data will be collected via questionnaires, focus groups and interviews. Findings will be disseminated via conference papers and publications.