Magnus Hoppe is an associate professor in business administration at Mälardalen University in Sweden.Steffi Siegert is an assistant professor in business administration at Linnaeus University in Sweden.Serdar Temiz is an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering at Uppsala University.Anton Hasselgren is a senior data analyst at Star Stable Entertainment.Fatemeh Seifan is analytics team lead at Paradox Interactive.

• Section 1: Playing a different flute 1. Singing Lessons for the Lecturer 2. Dancing Through Shadows: A Journey from Academia to Career Coaching 3. Always coming home. A conversation with Sisyphus Section 2: Living by other standards 4. Like the Ugly Duckling. Lived Experiences of ‘Misfitting’ in the Classroom 5. God is a lobster: Of muteness and a lost sense of professional value in becoming an academic 6. Making an academic career without a reference Section 3: Adhering to a heart 7. Here’s to the misfits: Academic misfitting and collegiality as resistance and subversion 8. Haunting dissonance: The inner conflict of a business school misfit 9. Misfitting together Section 4: Cherishing a whole life 10. Odd body out: the female pregnant body in the male intellectual domain 11. Academia, ready for the future or stuck in the past? - How the academic system promotes a patriarchist family picture 12. Forced to find a different fit: Cruel optimism, the academic precariat and third space hybrid identities Section 5: Being an academic misfit is not so bad