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Volume 47, No. 3, 2017, pages 101-119  \nLeft Out in the Academic Field: Doctoral Graduates Deal with a Decade of Disappearing Jobs  \nSandra Acker  \nUniversity of Toronto  \nEve Haque  \nYork University  \nAbstract  \nIn 2001–2002, the authors of this article interviewed 31 ethno-culturally diverse doctoral students about their experiences in a sociology of education program at a Canadian university. Approximately 10 years later, in a second qualitative study, we had the chance to conduct semi-structured interviews with 13 of the former students to find out what had happened to them in the intervening years. Two of the 13 had become tenured academics, three were on the tenure track after years in temporary positions, and most of the others worked in the contingent sector of the academic labour market. Bourdieu’s concepts of “habitus” and “field” are particularly useful for our analysis, and we explore the tensions between these concepts for our participants.  \nRésumé  \nEn 2001–2002, les auteurs decet article ont interviewé 31 doctorants d’origineset de cultures diverses au sujet de leurs expériences d’études en sociologie del’éducation dans une université canadienne. Environ 10 ans plus tard, dans une deuxième étude qualitative, ces mêmes auteurs ont eu la possibilité de diriger des entrevues semi-structurées avec 13 des étudiants de la première cohorted’entrevues (aujourd’hui diplômés) afin de découvrir ce qui s’était passé sur le plan professionnel entre les deux entrevues. Deux d’entre eux étaient devenus des titulaires universitaires permanents, trois autres étaient en voie d’obtenir une permanence après des années dans des postes temporaires, tandis que la plupart des autres travaillaient dans le secteur indéterminé du marché du travail universitaire. Les concepts de Bourdieu ont été particulièrement utiles pour la présente analyse. En effet, pour les participants de l’étude, les auteurs explorent les tensions entre « habitus » et « champ » .  \nCJHE / RCES Volume 47, No. 3, 2017  \nDoctoral Graduates and Disappearing Jobs / S. Acker & E. Haque 102  \nIntroduction  \nLabour market conditions for advanced degree holders have become a topic of concern in Canada and elsewhere, as full-time, permanent academic positions become increasingly unavailable (Fullick, 2013; Gillis, 2013; Neumann & Tan, 2011). Yet we rarely find an analysis of doctoral graduates’ reflections on their struggles and successes over time. In 2001–2002, the authors of this article conducted a qualitative, interview-based study of 31 doctoral students—diverse in age, gender, family situation, and ethno-cultural backgrounds—enrolled in a sociology of education program at a Canadian university. Results are reported elsewhere (Acker & Haque, 2010, 2015). Here we describe a subsequent study of 13 of the original participants about a decade later. We consider what kind of transition to the workplace these former doctoral students have faced and how they felt about it.  \nBackground  \nStudies from various countries report between a fifth and a third of doctoral recipients obtain full-time tenured or tenure-track academic positions a few years after graduation (Jonker, 2016, p. 14; Mellors-Bourne, Metcalfe, & Pollard, 2013, p. 12; Neumann & Tan, 2011, p. 604). However, the studies also predict a long-term global decline in the proportions of doctoral graduates who will be employed in academia, an assessment at odds with the wish of many doctoral students to become academics (Maldonado, Wiggers, & Arnold, 2013; Morrison, Rudd, & Nerad, 2011) . While students in the humanities and social sciences are particularly affected, those in the sciences are not immune from the lure ofacademe (Gemme & Gingras, 2012) .  \nAs of 2010–2011, approximately 45,000 academics were employed full time in Canadian universities (Statistics Canada, 2012, Table 477-0017) . 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