Gender and Precarious Research Careers
The literature on gender and science shows that scientific careers continue to be characterised albeit with important differences among countries by strong gender discriminations, especially in more prestigious positions. Much less investigated is the issue of which stage in the career such differences begin to show up.
Gender and Precarious Research Careers aims to advance the debate on the process of precarisation in higher education and its gendered effects, and springs from a three-year research project across institutions in seven European countries: Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, Switzerland, Slovenia and Austria. Examining gender asymmetries in academic and research organisations, this insightful volume focuses particularly on early careers. It centres both on STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Science and Humanities) fields.
Offering recommendations to design innovative organisational policies and self-tailored Gender Equality Plans to be implemented in universities and research centres, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Sociology of Work and Industry, Sociology of Knowledge, Business Studies and Higher Education.
Annalisa Murgia has coordinated the European FP7 project GARCIA Gendering the Academy and Research: Combating Career Instability and Asymmetries. She is Associate Professor at the Leeds University Business School, UK.
Barbara Poggio is Co-ordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and Vice Rector for Equality and Diversity at the University of Trento, Italy.
Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Modern Motherhood and Womens Dual Identities
Rewriting the Sexual Contract
Petra Bueskens
Age, Gender and Sexuality through the Life Course
The Girl in Time
Susan Pickard
The Romani Womens Movement
Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Angla Kcz, Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanovi, and Enik Vincze
Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships
Edited by Tuula Juvonen and Marjo Kolehmainen
Masculinities, Sexualities and Love
Aliraza Javaid
Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries
Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World
Edited by Gabriele Griffin and Malin Jordal
Gender and Migration
Intersectional Prospects
Anna Amelina and Helma Lutz
Gender and Precarious Research Careers
A Comparative Analysis
Edited by Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio
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A Comparative Analysis
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Contents
PART I
The state of the art
PART II
Academic and research organisations
PART III
Early career researchers
Pierre Bataille received his PhD in sociology at the University of Lausanne. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. His main research interests include the sociology of education, sociology of elites, sociology of work, cultural sociology, gender perspective and longitudinal approaches in mixed methods research design.
Yvonne Benschop is Professor of Organisational Behavior at the Institute for Management Research at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She is Head of the Department of Business Administration. Her research interests focus on power in organising, informal organisation processes that produce intersectional gender inequalities and the ways to change these processes and inequalities. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Organization, associate editor of Gender, Work and Organization, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals.
Rossella Bozzon is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) of the Leeds University Business School (UK), and member of the ERC Starting Grant project SHARE Seizing the Hybrid Areas of Work by Re-presenting Self-Employment. Her research interests include welfare state and labour market transformations, nonstandard employment relations, demographic dynamics, gender inequalities and quantitative methods.
Thomas Brorsen Smidt obtained his PhD in Gender Studies from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Iceland in 2018. He is a sessional teacher and supervisor at the UN University Gender Equality Studies and Training Program (UNU-GEST) as well as an active public lecturer on issues ranging from workplace sexual harassment to politics of sexuality and intimacy.
Majda erni Isteniis Senior Research Fellow at ZRC SAZU and Associate Professor at Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. Her recent research work and publications comprises the issues of gender, intergenerational relations and ageing in rural contexts, knowledge exchange in agriculture, urban agriculture and the well-being of farm populations.
Sanja Cukut Krili, is Research Fellow at ZRC SAZU. She has researched and published on the topics of female migration, care work, transnational families, gender-based violence in migration contexts and the reconciliation of family and working life among different populations.
Maria del Rio Carral, PhD, works as a Lecturer in Health Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Lausanne, where she teaches qualitative methods in psychology. Her research interests include: psychosocial implications related to the shift towards the digitalisation of health; the use of qualitative and mixed research methods in psychology; and the influence of working conditions upon the construction of subjective health and well-being in daily life.
Farah Dubois-Shaik was Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FP7, Marie Curie Actions) in Sociology, at the IACCHOS institute at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Her research work mainly comprises knowledge and policy analysis, discourse analysis, political sociology, sociology of organisations and membership studies.
