A parallel identity
Partners, parents and children of serving personnel build their own identities around service: routines, postings, communities and shared sacrifice.
When the serving person leaves, the family transitions too.
What AURIS offers
AURIS recognises the family as a unit of identity work, not only the individual. Support is shaped accordingly.
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About the author
Gemma Gardner
Founder and Research Lead, AURIS Institute
Gemma Gardner leads the AURIS research programme on identity and occupational transition. Her work builds the evidence base behind the AURIS Framework and the Identity System, drawing on interviews with service leavers, families and the organisations that support them.
- Lead author, Identity Performance Psychology white paper series
- Principal investigator, AURIS identity adaptation interview programme
- Author of AURIS submissions on identity in occupational transition
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