This article explores male and female academics’ perceptions of what it means to be both a parent and an academic and the relations between them. Based on an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of interviews with 35 academics from a university in England, findings suggest that the way in which academics experience being both a parent and an academic depends upon how they understand the meaning of each of these two roles and what they are trying to achieve within them. These meanings and experiences also appear to differ by gender. Ways in which higher education can offer more targeted and specific support to academic mothers in particular are discussed.

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学者对既是父母又是学者的意义的看法：来自英国大学的观点

本文探讨了男性和女性学者对既是父母又是学者的意义以及他们之间的关系的看法。基于对来自英格兰一所大学的 35 位学者的访谈的解释性现象学分析，研究结果表明，学者作为父母和学者的体验方式取决于他们如何理解这两个角色中的每一个角色的含义以及它们是什么试图在他们内部实现。这些意义和经历似乎也因性别而异。讨论了高等教育可以特别为学术母亲提供更有针对性和具体支持的方式。