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Emotional labour in academia: The unspoken burden

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Avita is a year 3 distance learning student ( MSc Clinical Education ) at Edinburgh Medical School. As Ogbonna and Harris (2004) noted, the “professional” persona academics are expected to project can create a “gap” between their true selves and their public performances. This “professionalism,” however, can be a double-edged sword.

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