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Dear SSHRC, What Do You Want? An Epistolary Narrative of Expertise, Identity, and Time in Grant Writing
Im derzeitigen Forschungsbetrieb sind die Erwartungen an sozialwissenschaftlich Forschende zunehmend hoch, Forschungsgelder einzuwerben – zugleich erscheint diese Art des Antragswesens kompetitiver denn je. Als Folge kommt es aufseiten der Forschenden zu Angst, Verwirrung, Vertrauensverlust, Zweifel und Mangel an Zutrauen in das System und in sich selbst. In dieser autoethnografischen Studie werfen wir einen Insider-Blick auf die intellektuelle, emotionale und körperliche Erfahrung des Schreibens von Förderanträgen. Als Team kanadischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler dokumentieren wir die Produktion eines Mittelantrags an die wichtigste nationale Förderagentur, das Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Die Geschichte wird gewissermaßen \"epistulär\" dargestellt in Form der Präsentation einer Reihe nicht versendeter Briefe, die wir an die Fördereinrichtung adressiert haben. In diesen Briefen fokussieren wir Themen wie Expertise, Identität und Zeit, die durch den Prozess des Antragschreibens geprägt worden sind. In unserer Analyse weisen wir auf unnötige Komplexitäten und Herausforderungen hin, die im Rahmen von Forschungsförderungsprozeduren eliminiert werden könnten und sollten, wenn es darum geht, Forschungsqualität zu unterstützen und Forschungskapazität zu stärken. Die Schlussfolgerungen aus der Analyse können für Antragstellende, für die Unterstützung des eingesetzten Personals sowie für mittelvergebende Einrichtungen nützlich sein.
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Left Out in the Academic Field: Doctoral Graduates Deal with a Decade of Disappearing Jobs
In 2001–2002, the authors of this article interviewed 31 ethno-culturally diverse doctoral students about their experiences in a sociology of education program at a Canadian university. Approximately 10 years later, in a second qualitative study, we had the chance to conduct semi-structured interviews with 13 of the former students to find out what had happened to them in the intervening years. Two of the 13 had become tenured academics, three were on the tenure track after years in temporary positions, and most of the others worked in the contingent sector of the academic labour market. Bourdieu’s concepts of “habitus” and “field” are particularly useful for our analysis, and we explore the tensions between these concepts for our participants.
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Leading the Academic Department: A Mother–Daughter Story
This article is based on conversations between a mother and daughter about academic leadership. Both authors served in different time periods and at different career points as heads of departments (“chairs”) in Canadian universities. A literature review suggested that women’s academic leadership is a contested topic, especially in relation to organizational cultures and associated gendered expectations. New directions were identified, as scholars move towards comparative studies, poststructural theoretical approaches, analysis of neoliberal trends in universities, and awareness of variation among women. We noted that “Canada” was largely missing from most of the literature reviewed and that middle management had received less attention than senior roles. Our method was collaborative autoethnography, a means of sharing thoughts about one’s experiences and analyzing them with regard to wider social issues. Quotations are taken from a taped discussion in early 2018 and are organized around similarities and differences in our narratives. The conclusion raises issues about the difficulties associated with performing this particular middle management role; questions around the consequences of chairing for women in different age groups; the implications of increasing reliance on contingent academic labour; apparent differences between the Canadian experience and what has happened elsewhere; and promising directions for future research.
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Tenure troubles and equity matters in Canadian academe
The focus of this article is the tenure review process in Canadian universities, a rigorous and high-stakes evaluation of junior academics that serves as a prime exemplar of 'disciplining academics', our project's title. In-depth interviews in seven Ontario universities with 30 knowledgeable informants such as senior managers and faculty association personnel provide the data. Literature on tenure and the persistence of equity issues suggests that we might expect some concern on those grounds to be raised by participants, especially as the faculty complement slowly grows more ethnically diverse and more gender balanced. Although not usually raised without direct questions, some discourses around equity did appear in the interviews. We argue that apparently equal outcomes in the tenure review process may be obscuring differential experiences of evaluation that need further examination.
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Left Out in the Academic Field: Doctoral Graduates Deal with a Decade of Disappearing Jobs
In 2001–2002, the authors of this article interviewed 31 ethno-culturally diverse doctoral students about their experiences in a sociology of education program at a Canadian university. Approximately 10 years later, in a second qualitative study, we had the chance to conduct semi-structured interviews with 13 of the former students to find out what had happened to them in the intervening years. Two of the 13 had become tenured academics, three were on the tenure track after years in temporary positions, and most of the others worked in the contingent sector of the academic labour market. Bourdieu’s concepts of “habitus” and “field” are particularly useful for our analysis, and we explore the tensions between these concepts for our participants.
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Making a Difference: Women in management in Australian and Canadian faculties of education
This article reports a study of Australian and Canadian women in management positions in university faculties of education. It provides a perspective on the contradictory and multilayered experiences of the first cohort of academic women to reach management positions in any significant numbers in education. The article explores the way in which women are positioned as different but at the same time negotiate their place by using marginality and difference as strengths. Many of the women continue to hold to feminist agendas that were forged in relation to the university of a quarter of a century ago. They have strong commitments to 'making a difference'. The authors raise the question of how these agendas will operate in the years to come and whether we can anticipate a new feminist politics of leadership.
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Carry on Caring: the work of women teachers
This paper is based on an ethnographic study in one English primary school, 'Hillview'. First, I review feminist and other approaches in the literature to the familiar association between women and caring. After a description of the school and the study, I consider Hillview teachers' caring activities in the classroom and whether maternal imagery is justified. Sources of stress and struggle, which lend a sober side to romanticized notions of teachers as mothers in the classroom, are noted. Next, I look at the ways in which the Hillview teachers cared for each other, creating a workplace culture characterized by collaboration, compassion, and community. Although a gender analysis is extremely important in understanding teachers' work, this does not mean that teachers' caring activities or workplace cultures are simply derived from any essential qualities of women. Hillview teachers struggled with 'their' children and with material conditions that contained sources of stress and frustration. Their close-knit culture stemmed in part from the need to find collective strategies to compensate for the frustrations of their work; the culture gave them the impetus to keep doing what often seemed an impossible job.
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Dear SSHRC, what do you want? An epistolary narrative of expertise, identity, and time in grant writing
Im derzeitigen Forschungsbetrieb sind die Erwartungen an sozialwissenschaftlich Forschende zunehmend hoch, Forschungsgelder einzuwerben - zugleich erscheint diese Art des Antragswesens kompetitiver denn je. Als Folge kommt es aufseiten der Forschenden zu Angst, Verwirrung, Vertrauensverlust, Zweifel und Mangel an Zutrauen in das System und in sich selbst. In dieser autoethnografischen Studie werfen wir einen Insider-Blick auf die intellektuelle, emotionale und körperliche Erfahrung des Schreibens von Förderanträgen. Als Team kanadischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler dokumentieren wir die Produktion eines Mittelantrags an die wichtigste nationale Förderagentur, das Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Die Geschichte wird gewissermaßen \"epistulär\" dargestellt in Form der Präsentation einer Reihe nicht versendeter Briefe, die wir an die Fördereinrichtung adressiert haben. In diesen Briefen fokussieren wir Themen wie Expertise, Identität und Zeit, die durch den Prozess des Antragschreibens geprägt worden sind. In unserer Analyse weisen wir auf unnötige Komplexitäten und Herausforderungen hin, die im Rahmen von Forschungsförderungsprozeduren eliminiert werden könnten und sollten, wenn es darum geht, Forschungsqualität zu unterstützen und Forschungskapazität zu stärken. Die Schlussfolgerungen aus der Analyse können für Antragstellende, für die Unterstützung des eingesetzten Personals sowie für mittelvergebende Einrichtungen nützlich sein.
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