Evaluation des novellierten Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes
Autor/in:
Sommer, Jörn; Jongmanns, Georg; Book, Astrid; Rennert, Christian
Quelle: InterVal GmbH; HIS-Institut für Hochschulentwicklung e. V. (HIS-HE); Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Berlin; Hannover, 2022.
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Schlagwörter:Befristung; Beschäftigungsbedingungen; Beschäftigungsdauer; Drittmittel; Evaluation; Evaluationsbericht; Promotion; Qualifizierung; Vertragsbedingung; WissZeitVG (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz)
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Academic Women in Neoliberal Times
Autor/in:
Lipton, Briony
Quelle: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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Inhalt: “This book investigates the gendered dimensions of academic life in the contemporary Australian university. It examines key discourses – most notably academic performativity and identity – through a feminist lens, and scrutinises how discourses of neoliberalism and feminism are entangled in the structure, systems, operations and cultures of the university. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with academic women in Australia, the author uses a mix of experimental methods to emphasise the performative and discursive decisions women make with regard to their academic careers. In doing so, this book reveals how women themselves generate neoliberal and feminist shifts, how they manage the contradictions they produce, and how they carve spaces of influence and authority. Moving towards a re-evaluation of existing discourses, this book offers new insights into gender inequality in the Australian university in neoliberal times.”
Schlagwörter:academia; Australia; neoliberal university
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Lässt sich "Cancel Culture" empirisch belegen? : Impulse für eine pluralistische Fachdebatte
Autor/in:
Villa, Paula-Irene; Traunmüller; Richard; Revers, Matthias
Quelle: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 46. Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BpB) (Hrsg.). 2021
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Schlagwörter:academic freedom; "cancel culture"; Diskussion; Meinungsfreiheit; Methodik; Sozialwissenschaft; Toleranz
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
The Hidden Potential: Gender in Research Funding of Three Strong Innovators
Autor/in:
Thaler, Anita; Ashkenazi, Maya; Baumert, Madlen; Haack, Janne; Himi, Hana; Karner, Sandra
Quelle: Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz, 2021.
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Inhalt: In academic, non-profit and business research, project funding and grants are important elements to promote science, boost innovation and support researchers on their career paths. However, they are also powerful instruments to materialize and prioritize major principles of science policy and social values such as gender equality and equity. An analysis of research funding processes and organisations in the scope of the EU project CHANGE1 could illuminate gender policies and practices, aiming at a more diverse and gender equitable research and innovation landscape, but could also reveal inherent gender biases. This paper particularly focuses on the results of 41 expert interviews on research budgets, gender policies and practices in research funding in the three “strong innovator”-countries Austria, Germany and Israel, and explores the hidden potential of gender in science and research funding in all sectors.
Schlagwörter:Austria; Auswahlverfahren; Deutschland; Forschungsförderung; gender bias; gender policy; Germany; grant application; Israel; Österreich; research funding
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Generation Precarious : Exploring the relationship between working conditions for early-career researchers and the quality of teaching and research
Autor/in:
Wikene Iddeng, Jon; Dahl Norgård, Jorunn
Quelle: (Forsker Forbundet Publication Series, 4), 2020.
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Inhalt: Casualization is on the rise in higher education institutions (HEI) worldwide, particularly affecting working conditions and career prospects of young academics. They represent a vast pool of talent essential to meet future societal needs, yet this “generation precarious” increasingly questions whether it is worthwhile. In this paper we discuss the consequences of casualization for quality in teaching and research. We will present an overview of studies and surveys on employment terms, working conditions and career prospects for early-stage researchers – the “generation precarious” – in Europe, with a particular eye to Norway. Based on this, we highlight concerns and potential consequences of precarious work and deteriorating working conditions within the higher education system.
Schlagwörter:early career researchers; Europe; higher education; Norway; Prekariat; working condition
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Neoliberalism, gender and education work - (Paperback, forthcoming 30.6.2020)
Herausgeber/in:
Robert, Sarah A.; Pitzer, Heidi; Muñoz García, Ana Luisa; Pitzer, Heidi K.
Quelle: London: Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 2020.
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Inhalt: How does neoliberalism in the education field shape who teachers are and what they can be? What are the effects of neoliberal logic on students? How is gender at the core of what it means to teach and learn in neoliberal educational institutions? Neoliberalism, Gender and Education Work examines the everyday labour of educating in a variety of contexts in order to answer these questions in new and productive ways. Neoliberal ideals of standardisation, accountability and entrepreneurialism are having undeniable effects on how we define teaching and learning. Gender is central to these definitions, with care work and other forms of affective labour simultaneously implicated in standards of teacher quality and undervalued in metrics of assessment. Gathering research from across four continents and education settings ranging from elementary school to higher education, to popular social movements, the methodologically diverse case studies in this book offer insight into how teachers and students negotiate the intertwined logics of neoliberalism and gender. Beyond an indictment of contemporary institutions, Neoliberalism, Gender and Education Work provides inspiration with its documentation of the creative practices and selfhoods emerging in the "cracks" of the neoliberal ideological apparatus.
Schlagwörter:feminist research; feministische Forschung; Gender; Hochschule; Lehre; neoliberalism; Neoliberalismus
CEWS Kategorie:Bildung und Erziehung, Wissenschaftspolitik, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
„What got you here won’t get you there“ – die kommenden Herausforderungen
Autor/in:
Sack, Norbert
Quelle: Wissenschaftsleadership - Die Zukunft der Führung von Hochschulen und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen. Norbert Sack (Hrsg.), Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler. 2019, S 139–145
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Inhalt: Der Wandel wird auch in den kommenden Jahren in der Wissenschaft weitergehen. Wie auch in der Wirtschaft bleiben die Trends Digitalisierung und technologische Innovation einerseits und die trotz kleinerer politischer Rückschläge weiter fortschreitende Globalisierung andererseits die wesentlichen Treiber für Veränderung. Daneben gibt es demografische Entwicklungen, die Veränderung auch für den Bildungssektor bedeuten. Die akuter werdende Frage nach gesellschaftlichen Prioritäten und nach der Verteilung der Finanzmittel, auch über politische Ressortgrenzen hinweg, führt zu einer weiter wachsenden Bedeutung der Verankerung der Wissenschaftsinstitutionen in der Gesellschaft. Für die Führungskräfte dieser Organisationen heißt das, dass interkulturelle Kompetenz, die Fähigkeit zu Kollaboration und zum Stakeholder-Management und das Umgehen mit komplexen Führungsherausforderungen und Spannungsfeldern weiter an Bedeutung zunehmen. Die Führungskräfte von morgen müssen sich noch stärker der Frage stellen, was die „License to operate“ ihrer wissenschaftlichen Institution ist.
Schlagwörter:demographische Entwicklung; Digitalisierung; Führungskultur; Globalisierung; interkulturelle Kompetenz; Kollaboration; Stakeholder-Management; Wissenschaftsleadership; work-life balance
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Hochschulen, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Wissenschaftspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Gendered management in Spanish universities : Functional segregation among vice-rectors
Autor/in:
Castaño, Cecilia; Vázquez-Cupeiro, Susana; Martínez-Cantos, José Luis
Quelle: Gender and Education, 31 (2019) 8, S 966–985
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Inhalt: The reorganisation of higher education according to the marketplace logic ? and framed within the process of Europeanisation and globalisation ? has run parallel to a significant rise in the number of women in senior management positions at Spanish universities. This would seem to be a step to more gender equality. However, the analysis of the situation used thus far, based on conventional indicators, may be harbouring a not-so-egalitarian reality. Our approach studies the gender distribution of vice-rectors according to assigned functions in all forty-eight Spanish public universities offering both graduate and postgraduate studies. It does so by creating a typology to exemplify gendered divisions of labour within those positions. The results confirm an uneven gender distribution: women, although mostly in charge of caregiving and housekeeping functions, are underrepresented across the board in areas where strategic power resides and the future of university is decided and where, eventually, gender norms could be changed.
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterungleichheit; Geschlechtervergleich; Hochschulleitung; Hochschulmanagement; Rektor; Rektorin; Segregation; Spanien
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Excellence, Masculinity and Work-Life Balance in Academia: Voices from Researchers in Germany and Sweden
Autor/in:
Salminen-Karlsson, Minna; Wolffram, Andrea; Almgren, Nina
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10 (2018) 1, 20 S
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Inhalt: The concept of research excellence, as defined and practised in the current research landscape, has been shown to be problematic for gender equality. This interview study examines how the concept of excellence is perceived among researchers in two national contexts, Sweden and Germany. The findings show that the perception of what excellence is, and how it can be achieved, differs between the two countries. In Germany, the concept was perceived as positive, while researchers in Sweden were more critical of it. In both countries, however, excellence in research was related to different constructions of masculinity. One of these, prioritising work above other life concerns, was also discussed differently in the two countries. Most German interviewees cherished an all hours’ culture, while most Swedish interviewees advocated a more balanced life. In both countries, becoming ‘excellent’ was seen as requiring the practice of both traditional academic and a new kind of business-like entrepreneurial masculinity. This impedes female researchers’ career paths. The Swedish researchers, however, seemed to live in a more permissive research environment, in which different ways of being an excellent academic were possible.
Schlagwörter:Akademische Karriere; career; excellence; Expertise; Finanzierung; Forschungspolitik; research financing; research policy; RWTH Aachen; Schweden
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Wissenschaftspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Excellence as a Gender-Biased Concept and Effects of the Linking of Excellence with Gender Equality
Autor/in:
Wolffram, Andrea
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10 (2018) 1, S 88–107
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Inhalt: This paper focuses on the subjectivity of evaluations of excellence in promotion and hiring processes in academia and on the accompanying factors for successful careers in Science and Technology (S&T) disciplines. Against the background of the disproportionately low rate of appointments of female scientists to professorships in Germany, the article analyses how the demands of gender equality and the concept of excellence are negotiated at a German university that was successful in the German Excellence Initiative. The implementation of the excellence process was accompanied by a discourse of linking excellence with gender equality. This article draws on qualitative data from interviews with researchers at different levels of their scientific careers. It can be shown that researchers, regardless of their scientific experience, perceive equity measures in appointment procedures as undermining the meritocratic principle. Rather, most of them think that societal conditions outside the scientific system are responsible for the underrepresentation of women in professorships and other top positions in academia.
Schlagwörter:Beförderung; Berufungsverfahren; Bewerbung; career paths in science and technology; Deutschland; Diskurs; Exzellenz; Exzellenzinitiative; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; Geschlechtergerechtigkeit; Gleichstellung; Interview; meritocracy; Meritokratie; MINT; Personalrekrutierung; promotion and recruitment of women in academia; Social construction of excellence; Soziale Konstruktion; Technologie; Unterrepräsentanz; wissenschaftliche Karriere; Wissenschaftskarriere
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaftspolitik, Berufungsverfahren
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz