Celia  Whitchurch is Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests focus on academic and professional roles and careers, and on third space environments in higher education. She is the author of over 50 publications including Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-making (2023) (with William Locke and Giulio Marini); and Reconstructing  Identities  in  Higher  Education: The  Rise  of  Third  Space Professionals (2013).

She was Founding Editor of Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education from 1998 to 2008, Editor of Higher Education Quarterly from 2008 to 2018, and is currently Assistant Editor of the London Review of Education.