...Marina Iskhakova; Anna Earl; Yehuda Baruch Purpose We aim to explore the changes in cultural identity that academics experience in the context of critical career events through the prism of career shocks and chance events theory. We acknowledge that Ukraine and Ukrainian people are the primary...

...: academics. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopts an interpretative-social constructionist methodology. Complementarily, it was employed a phenomenological method in data gathering and analysis – with the use of in-depth interviews and a theme analysis. The research was undertaken...