Inhalt: Work package 7 centers on the revealing of implicit gender sub-texts in selection processes by deconstructing excellence. In this work package, GARCIA will identify the formal and informal criteria that are widely used to construct scientific excellence in academia and research. The focus on recruitment and selection helps to unpack how the formal criteria of the job description are understood, applied or ignored in committee deliberations. The construction of academic and research excellence is particularly salient for those workers who hold precarious positions, as the label of excellence is the key to their inclusion or exclusion in academia and research. Therefore, the core research question for this report 7.1 is concerned with the identification of the gap between the formal criteria and the actual criteria used in the recruitment and selection of early career academics. The project zooms in on the entrance to positions for postdocs, researchers and assistant professors; both permanent, tenure-track and non-permanent positions. At this stage, recruitment and selection processes act as a “bottleneck” in career progression for scientists where only a small minority among a pool of candidates are retained. The competition in an already greedy institution may bring along extra risk of producing inequalities. Statistics show how men succeed more than women to rise in the scientific ranks and leave the status of precarious worker behind. GARCIA will look into the gendered processes and practices that constitute the barriers for women to become part of or be eligible for the permanent staff. For the analysis of formal criteria, we will analyze HR-documents about career trajectories and job demands (to analyze how the HR policies are translated into formal job descriptions). We also perform a content analysis on job descriptions of vacancies between 2010-2014 in two academic fields (SSH and STEM). To examine the criteria as applied in practice, we use 1) focus groups and interviews with committee members and 2) analysis of appointment reports. Aim is to analyze a) how committee members construct excellence (the ideal candidate), what criteria are applied in practice and how do they relate to the formal criteria in the original job description and b) the gender practices in the recruitment and selection processes.
Schlagwörter:Ausschreibung; befristeter Arbeitsvertrag; Belgien; Berufung; Berufungsverfahren; EU-Projekt; Europa; Exklusion; Exzellenz; Hochschule; Island; Italien; Karriere; Niederlande; Österreich; Personalrekrutierung; Post-doc; Schweiz; Slowenien; Tenure Track; wissenschaftliche Karriere; wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Hochschulen, Berufungsverfahren
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht