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This paper examines how career sustainability is interpreted among higher education staff in Australia and Japan, focusing on third-space professionals who work across academic and professional domains. The research explored the tensions between the career aspirations and career paths of these professionals in both countries using the sustainable careers framework within a qualitative research design. In this phase, completed in 2024, perspectives on career sustainability were gathered from six staff members in one Australian university and six in a Japanese university (12 individuals in total). Despite significant differences in recruitment approaches and work organisation in Australian and Japanese universities, most enabling and disrupting factors of career sustainability discussed by participants were common, with only a few dissimilarities. The findings from this phase were used to develop preliminary recommendations for policy and practice in career development for university third space workers and will inform the second phase of this research.
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