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- Angervall, Petra, 1970
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Structural Matchings in processes of institutional Spacing & Positioning in Academia : Finding Spaces of Success The Making of an Excellent Academic Career in Education Sciences
- 2015
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Ingår i: ECER i Budapest, 8-11/9 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- That higher education is currently being exposed to a significant neo liberal policy change in Europe and more broadly is beyond contention (Olssen & Peters, 2005). This policy change articulates and forms discourses of performativity (Ball, 2012), marketization (Deem, 2007), and excellence (Marginson, 2011), which all have significant impact on how academic subjectivity is constructed (Davies & Petersen, 2005, Archer, 2008). This study puts focus on academic’s career paths by means of analysing the experiences of 18 researchers who describe how they made an excellent career. By using an approach related to Braidotti (1994) and Colebrook (2000) these researchers are seen as in constant search for consciousness, for material recognition and for subtler, more emotional needs. They are all active in Education Sciences, which is a new scientific field in Sweden that consists of a particular patterned set of practises, as designed for developing research of relevance to teaching and teacher education. This set of practises (and their cultural context), partly explains why the numbers of women dominate over the numbers of men, both among students and staff (see Öhrn & Lundahl, 2012). The results show that the “excellent researcher” use specific and often profitable spaces of transit in order to move. They act clear of where they are going and why, and often seem to know how to get the system to recognize them. Some argue that they move as they like, they enjoy their careers and do what is fun. Several mention how they see their rewards in career as linked to their individual competences, but also to the resources they have been given. The results, however, also illustrate how women more than men experience themselves as hindered in career. Some mention how they experience themselves as hindered by their networks and competences. Others illustrate how various and complex self-images create barriers (both mental and physical). Men, as excellent researchers, seem to think less about their conditions, where to go and how to move, than women do. Women move less distinctly, and accordingly seem less rewarded. Many of the women appear stressed out and anxious, especially in relation to the boundaries between private- and work-life, which partly unable them in using their capacity of making distinct choices.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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Studiens kontext, begreppsram och empiri
- 2013
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Ingår i: Kön och karriär i akademin. - Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. - 0436-1121. - 9789173467612 - 9789173467629 ; , s. 19-37
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970
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Subjectivity, gender and transgression in Higher Education
- 2016
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Ingår i: ECER 2016 "Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers", University College Dublin from 22-26 August, 2016..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Changes in the higher education system have resulted in increased demands on effectiveness and marketisation. These demands have changed what it means to do academic work. In this study, 19 female academic lecturers have been interviewed. The aim is to analyse how this specific group manoeuvres; that is their ’becoming subjectivity’ in academic career. The results show how many see teaching as important in career, but also as a trap that restrains them in their chances of research advancement. Several express that a lot of teaching drain the time and energy needed for other opportunities in career. There are also a few who experience teaching as a place where people actually collaborate more than compete and find alternative career strategies. Even so, these women appear caught in their careers, which can relate to gender, and to the experience of ‘incapacity’ to find directions in a more competitive structure.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970
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The academic career: a study of subjectivity, gender and movement among women university lecturers
- 2018
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Ingår i: Gender and Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0954-0253 .- 1360-0516. ; 30:1, s. 105-118
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Changes in the higher education system have resulted in increased demands on effectiveness and marketisation. These demands have changed what it means to do academic work. In this study, 19 female academic lecturers have been interviewed in order to get them to reflect upon their opportunities and conditions in career. The aim is to analyse how this specific group manoeuvres; that is their ’becoming subjectivity’ in academic career. This means an interest in analysing their locations, positions as well as their material and discursive conditions. The results show how many see teaching as important in career, but also as a trap that restrains them in their chances of research advancement. Several express that a lot of teaching drain the time and energy needed for other opportunities in career. There are also a few who experience teaching as a place where people actually collaborate more than compete and find alternative career strategies. Even so, these women appear caught in their careers, which can relate to gender, and to the experience of ‘incapacity’ to find directions in a more competitive structure.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970
(författare)
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The excellent researcher
- 2016
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Ingår i: Policy Futures in Education. - : SAGE Publications. - 1478-2103. ; 14:2, s. 225-237
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The neo-liberal university not only changes systems of governance but also impacts on how subject positions are valued. These changes justify critical questions on how academics manoeuvre in academia. In this study focus is on the told experiences of 18 researchers who describe how they made an excellent career in academia. The results show that most of the researchers express awareness about a performative culture in terms of how it is affecting their careers and how they should make mindful and rewarding choices. Accordingly, the excellent researcher is expected to know how to use specific locations in order to move in a profitable way. Some express that they move as they like, due to their individual competence. The results also illustrate how women more than men express uncertainties and complex self-images that create barriers (mental and physical). Men seem to think less about their conditions than women, and express clear views about where to go and how to move. Women move less distinctly and less collaborative, but also seem less rewarded. Many of the women appear anxious, especially in relation to the boundaries between private- and work-life, which partly could disable them in using their capacity of making distinct choices in their career.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970
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The Excellent Researcher
- 2015
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Ingår i: ECER konferens i Budapest.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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The Exploitation of Academic Work: Women in Teaching at Swedish Universities
- 2018
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Ingår i: Higher Education Policy. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 0952-8733 .- 1740-3863. ; 31:1, s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study concerns some of the implications of the increasing commodification of the higher education sector. It tries to highlight how higher education institutions have developed in the late 2000s through the reform path that was introduced to transform programmes and employees into marketable products. New forms of governance that change institutional contexts and concrete practices accompany this change. Based on interviews with a group of female academic lecturers and teachers, we look in particular at how the work structure is organized and practised at Swedish universities. The results illustrate a greater division of labour and a fragmentation of academic work that can be explained by recent developments. More specifically, it appears as if female academics in teaching-intensive departments do work that serves the interests of others (often men), foremost in areas and practices such as research.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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The Making of Careers in Academia: Split Career Movements in Education Science
- 2014
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Ingår i: European Educational Research Journal. - 1474-9041. ; 13:6, s. 601-615
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article the authors discuss developments in the Europeanisation of higher education policy context of Sweden, and in particular certain changes within the field of education science. Detailed career narratives from 30 interviews have been produced and analysed. These narratives illustrate how research careers in education are formed and conditioned by institutional demands, forms of career capital and the actions of researchers. In the making of careers in academia, the authors point out how some researchers get access to resources that make them competitive and influential, and that those with an already strong research career capital tend accumulate more of this. They also point out that researchers with a background in teaching seem to find it harder to develop research careers as they seem to be bound to forms of career capital that are seen as more needed in teaching. Accordingly, two career profiles have been identified: the successful and the supportive researchers, respectively.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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The unacknowledged value of female academic labour power for male research careers
- 2015
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Ingår i: Higher Education Research and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0729-4360 .- 1469-8366. ; 34:5, s. 1-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Academic work in Sweden's higher education system is changing character. Distinctly different career pathways are emerging, as facilities for developing research careers and capital has become more restricted and more dependent on external funding.These developments are in focus in the present article. Based on ethnographic research and a series of semi-structured interviews with new academics and senior mentors in education faculties, the research suggests that several factors intercede in how careers are developed and experienced. The unacknowledged exploitation of female academic labour is perhaps amongst the more significant of these.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970
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Vem blir excellent forskare?
- 2013
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Ingår i: Kön och karriär i akademin. En studie inom det utbildningsvetenskapliga fältet. - Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. - 9789173467612 ; , s. 143-164
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