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Background  Early career health science professionals often find themselves in a transitional space when moving from a health science professional role to academia. The role of a postgraduate supervisor is especially troublesome. Transitional spaces often bring uncertainty and perceived or real threats, fear, worry, anxiety and stress. Without support, the result could be detrimental to the mental health of the early career as postgraduate supervisors, thereby impacting their professional identity formation.    Aim  To understand the underlying elements that shaped the early career health science professional as postgraduate supervisors’ habitus and how these features play out in their postgraduate supervision practice.    Setting  The research study was carried out at an Open and Distance e-Learning University (ODeL) and a residential university.    Methods  Visual elicitation methods in the form of seven drawings were used as data. Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of  habitus  and  hexis  were used as a theoretical lens, and structural analysis with analytical memoing was used to interrogate the drawings.    Results  Early career health science professional as postgraduate supervisors’ bodily habitus presented as fragmented or yet to be formed along with other entanglements, such as emotions, language, power and material arrangements.    Conclusion  These features enable policymakers, employee assistance practitioners, educational developers and experienced academics to consider the changes and structural forces that need to be addressed to support early career health science professional as postgraduate supervisors.    Contribution  A creative means of exploring the inner world of the early career health science professional as postgraduate supervisors is undertaken. In doing so, the research article potentially illuminates what has up to now been ‘unsaid’.

Illuminating the transitional habitus of the early career health science professional as postgraduate supervisor