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This chapter marks the start of our more detailed exploration of participants’ lives and careers in gerontology. Unlike the next two chapters that make up this part of the book, it does not begin with a consideration of other literature. Instead, it expands on the themes highlighted in Chapter 1 when we introduced participants – and on the pen portraits in Chapter 2 – and is designed to contextualise what follows. First, it explores some of the factors that led people to become gerontologists: their childhood and family experiences; how early professional/voluntary work has exerted an influence; important people and places; and the serendipitousness of many people’s entry into ageing. Next, we examine what has shaped people’s pathways into and through gerontology, encompassing both their ‘becoming’ and ‘being’ gerontologists. We identify four pathways: research – and then practitioner – routes into academia, knowledge exchange routes, and what we have termed ‘hybrid’ routes, whereby people’s careers incorporate both academia and practice.
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