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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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- 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, 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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- Angervall, Petra, 1970
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Being Excellent in Academia
- 2016
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Ingår i: Gera Conference, Symposium “Spaces for Education, Spaces of Education”, 13-16 March 2016, Kassel, Germany..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study include researchers who are 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. Focus is on how this group of researcher are active in and understand a successful career, but also how they try to challenge dominating views. 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 also mention how they see their rewards in career as linked to their individual competences, more so than to the resources they have been given. Finally, the results illustrate how women more than men experience themselves as hindered in career.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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Challenges in making an academic career in education sciences
- 2018
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Ingår i: British Journal of Sociology of Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-5692 .- 1465-3346. ; 39:4, s. 451-465
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The competitive university has brought about changes in structural conditions and created contradictions which are embedded in institutions. The present study is based on interviews with 42 early career researchers in the field of education sciences in Sweden. We analyse how members of this group handle career possibilities and limitations in relation to gender and to the structural ambivalence embedded in the higher education system. Our results illustrate that the structure of education sciences contains power relations and processes of differentiation, which give researchers different access to resources that can be used to handle structural ambivalence. This is illustrated in how, for example, women researchers, more than men, lack resources to solve the experienced tensions surrounding them, and therefore often work in areas where they are able to cope. Men researchers can often solve their career ambivalence by avoiding traps and gaining recognition, and are therefore able to advance.
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- Angervall, Petra, Professor, 1970-, et al.
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Dividing academic work: gender and academic career at Swedish universities
- 2017
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Ingår i: Gender and Education. - 347-362 : Informa UK Limited. - 0954-0253 .- 1360-0516. ; 32:3, s. 347-362
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent changes within the higher education system have affected the balance of academic labour. This article is based on interviews with 25 women lecturers in Education Faculties at Swedish Universities. It specifically addresses the shifting balance in terms of the increased separation between teaching and research in relation to gender, and the relationship between career advancement and gender this promotes. Distinctions concerning gender and academic labour and an enhancement of these power structures are identified, as well as how these affect possibilities of academic advancement. In conclusion, this study illustrates how women academics understand and navigate their academic career in relation to gendered attributes of academic work such as competitiveness, caretaking and responsibility are discussed.
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