Description
The Social Production of Research offers critical perspectives on the interrelations between research funding and gender, in a climate where universities expect accountability and publishing productivity to be maintained at peak levels.
Drawing upon a range of qualitative methods, contributors investigate experiences with research funding; the nature of institutional, funding body and country contexts; and the impact of social change and disruptions on research ecosystems and academic careers in Canada, Finland, Sweden and the UK. Nuanced accounts call attention to the social, emotional and political conditions within which research is produced, while identifying the ways academics enact, shape, negotiate and resist those conditions in their everyday practice.
Featuring thought-provoking and critical insights for an international readership, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, academics, administrators, managers, funders, politicians and others who are concerned about the future of research funding and the importance of gender equity.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Editors’ introduction; 2. Research funding and gender: insights from the literature; Part one: stability and change; 3. Here today, gone tomorrow: the vicissitudes of funding in gendered higher education contexts – a view from Sweden; 4. Discourses of university research in precarious times: a spatial/temporal analysis from the United Kingdom; 5. Gender inequalities, research funding and organisational practices: academic mothers in Finnish universities; 6. Casting a long shadow: COVID-19 and female academics’ research productivity in the United Kingdom; Part two: care and conflict; 7. Funding journeys in health technology in Finland: the atypical stories of Sara and Heidi; 8. Caring about research: gender, research funding and labour in the Canadian academy; 9. The gendered affective economy of funding: conflicting realities of university leaders and researchers in Finnish academia; 10. Black women academics, research funding and institutional misogynoir in the United Kingdom; Part three: funding and defunding; 11. Status hierarchies, gender bias and disrespect: ethnographic observations of Swedish Research Council review panels; 12. Tracing excellence and equity in research funding: policy change in the Canada Research Chairs Program; 13. Women academics under RAE and REF: the changing research funding policy landscape in the United Kingdom; 14. Research funding organisations as change agents for gender equality: policies, practices and paradoxes in Sweden
