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"This whole reports on the experience of some women who work part-time as Associate Lecturers (ALs) in Science or Technology at the UK Open University (OU), a unique higher education institution. Using data from questionnaires and on-line focus group discussions, we explore aspects of these women's careers in HE science teaching. This study, the Associate Lecturers in Science (ALiS) project, was undertaken as a contribution to the UK's Athena Project, a national drive to improve the recruitment, retention and progress of women in science, engineering and technology in Higher Education. It was also part of a wider study of women's careers in science. We explore the women's response to the flexible employment patterns enabled by part-time working in this context and their view of the development opportunities they have experienced. This paper summarises some of the project's findings and demonstrates how the OU, due to its flexible employment patterns, by restoring women's confidence in their abilities and by actively developing women's careers in HE succeeds in being a major employer of women in science and technology teaching at HE level." (author's abstract)"In this article, I draw on my own experiences as a female contract researcher at
a British university as a starting point for raising issues around social justice,
ethics of caring and the culture of uncaring which permeates academic, as well as
wider social, elites. Although the term 'dross' was directed by Chris Woodhead, the
Chief Inspector of the Office for Standards in Education, the schools inspection service
in England and Wales, in his polemic against academic sociologists, towards the work
of myself and a small group of mainly gender and race researchers within education,
it is the still working-class female who is most at risk of being captured within
such representations. In this article, I attempt to juxtapose the position of the
female contract researcher, and in particular those of us from working-class backgrounds,
with dominant discursive constructions of still working-class women in order to make
sense of processes of marginalisation both within and without the academy." (author's
abstract)|