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- Aarnikoivu, Melina, et al.
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Another higher education journal - Really?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. - Boras. - 2003-3605. ; 1:1, s. 1-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Abraham, Getahun Yacob, 1958-, et al.
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Pitfalls and possibilities with international partnerships: : An interview with Gun-Britt Wärvik, the Swedish coordinator of an international partnership program
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. - 2003-3605. ; 5:1, s. 28-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper is based on an interview with one of the principal leaders of an international partnership program between Ethiopia and Sweden, 2018–2022. The purpose of this interview was to deepen the understanding of these kinds of partnerships and to learn more about the possibilities and pitfalls of working in a joint program between national and cultural contexts. We interviewed Professor Gun-Britt Wärvik, the Swedish coordinator of the doctoral program between Addis Ababa University (AAU) and the University of Gothenburg (GU). The interview results suggest that doctoral supervisory challenges were present as students often used concepts produced in cultural contexts foreign to their assigned supervisors. Additionally, the administrative burden was particularly challenging for the Ethiopian counterpart that coordinated the program. Overall, the program created many positive work opportunities for students, provided possibilities for the staff of both universities to exercise supervision and examination of doctoral students, and enriched international experiences for all involved.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970-, et al.
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Academic Career : On institutions, social capital and gender
- 2018
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Ingår i: Higher Education Research and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0729-4360 .- 1469-8366. ; 37:6, s. 1095-1108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During decades of change in the Western higher education sector, new ways of understanding academic work have reinforced notions of the impact of social capital. The present study investigates researchers’ experiences of their own career making within two areas of Education Sciences in Swedish higher education: Childhood Studies (CS) and Science Education (SE). The structure at the CS departments is collaborative and integrated; teaching and research are seen as an entity. This structure creates a coherent career path where members of the collective group jointly produce and accumulate social capital; it also appears to be related to discourses of femininity. In the SE departments, the career structure is strategic and differentiated; the two career paths work in parallel through a differentiation between teaching and research. This appears to be related to discourses of masculinity. In conclusion, our analysis shows how social capital and gender mutually create different ways of doing an academic career.
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- Angervall, Petra, Professor, 1970-, et al.
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Academic Career Mobility: Career Advancement, Transnational Mobility and Gender Equity
- 2023
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Ingår i: Higher Education Policy. - : Springer. - 0952-8733 .- 1740-3863.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores how policy discourses on academic career are articulated in Swedish higher education. Discourses on academic career are often expressing meritocracy and the necessity of competition, but also include demands for flexibil-ity and global participation. Recent decades of higher education policy have also stressed the importance of gender equity, which is particularly evident in the Nordic countries. Yet, how these discourses interact and impact on contemporary ideas on academic career remains unclear. We analyse a selection of Swedish government bills to explore present policy discourses on academic career mobility, and how these discourses express and create tensions for different staff groups. The findings shows that the notion, and promotion of career mobility in Swedish higher education features tensions between career advancement, transnational mobility and work life stability. It is also clear that some scholars are defined as more career mobile and successful than others. Hence, discourses on career mobility tend to give legitimacy to already existing work divisions and hierarchies partly undermining gender equity. In conclusion, our findings show tensions and contradictions in these policies, which give base for further nuanced and critical discussions on the current conditions and possibilities in Swedish higher education and academic career.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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Akademisk karriär i sociala nätverk
- 2013
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Ingår i: Kön och karriär i akademin. En studie inom det utbildningsvetenskapliga fältet.. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9781608057276 ; , s. 124-142
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970-, et al.
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Assembling Gender Equality? Potentials and borders for gender equality work in Higher Education
- 2019
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Ingår i: Rethinking Knowledge Regimes. - Göteborg.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The policy changes of higher education in Sweden have resulted in a more individualized, specialized and measured academic work force (Ball, 2012; 2013). Through policy governance measures of performance, costs and time effectiveness, teaching quality, of work environment as well as of aspects of equality and justice, the intention has been to create a more effective and high performing academicinstitution (Blackmore, 2017). Leaving aside sparks of resistance, within the academe there is a strong consensus about the necessity, effectiveness and “neutrality” of standards through measurement. Previous studies (Alnebratt and Rönnblom, 2016) indicate that gender equality work in Sweden tends to express standards related to “objectivity”, but simultaneously involves activities that are political and transgressive. Therefore, there is a continuous need to investigate what kind of actions that are part of the realization of gender equality in the academe today. This study concerns the institutionalization of gender equality work within this context. How is gender equality work carried out in this academic landscape, and what does this work produce in terms of equality and the understanding thereof? By interviewing influential representatives and by observing how gender equality is realized in different contexts in the academe, we want to identify and deconstruct what we understand as gender equality assemblages (Liinason, 2017) and how they form, but also perform, gender equality in higher education (McPherson, 2015). Thus, in light of recent decades of policy changes, we are interested in what clusters of actions, interests, values or challenges that are involved in and directed to influence gender equality work, as well as their conceptual, practical and political implications for gender equality in higher education.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970-, et al.
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Assembling lines in research education : Challenges, choices and resistance among Swedish doctoral students
- 2019
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Ingår i: Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 2398-4686 .- 2398-4694. ; 10:2, s. 142-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The higher education sector in Sweden has, over decades, faced increasing demands in terms of efficiency rates in research, as well as increasing demands in the international competition for external revenue. These demands have influenced academic career trajectories and postdoctoral tracks as well as the everyday work of doctoral students. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how doctoral students express and challenge subjectivity in the present context of research education.Design/methodology/approach – The authors depart from the overall understanding that doctoral students’ lines of actions in research education depend on and form assemblages and, thus, define an academic institution. By re-analysing eight in-depth interviews, they illustrate how doctoral students from different milieus not only comply but also challenge, use border-crossings and change directions in research education.Findings – The results show that some of these doctoral students try to act as loyal and satisfied, especially in regard to their supervisors, whereas others use coping strategies and resistance. It is illustrated that when some of the students use “unsecure” molecular lines, they appear more open to redefining possibilities and change, in comparison with those on more stable molar lines. Those acting on molar lines sometimes express a lack of emotional (productive) engagement, even though this particular group tend to more often get access to rewarded assemblages. These patterns are partly gender-related.Social implications – The tension between finding more stable lines and spaces for change is apparent in doctoral students’ subjectivity, but also how this tension is related to gender. The women doctoral students appear not only more mobile but also in a sense more alert than their men peers. This offers insights in how actions define and redefine not only academic institutions but also different subjectivities.Originality/value – In the present, given the manifold demands on academic institutions, new insights and methodological approaches are necessary to illustrate how contemporary changes affect research education and the everyday life of doctoral students.
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