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.
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
Quelle: Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz, 2021.
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
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
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.
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.