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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.
List of contents
Introduction1. Editors' introduction
Sandra Acker, Oili-Helena Ylijoki & Michelle K. McGinn2. Research funding and gender: insights from the literature
Sandra AckerPart one: stability and change3. Here today, gone tomorrow: the vicissitudes of funding in gendered higher education contexts - a view from Sweden
Gabriele Griffin4. Discourses of university research in precarious times: a spatial/temporal analysis from the United Kingdom
Barbara Read & Carole Leathwood5. Gender inequalities, research funding and organisational practices: academic mothers in Finnish universities
Marja Vehviläinen, Hanna-Mari Ikonen & Päivi Korvajärvi6. Casting a long shadow: COVID-19 and female academics' research productivity in the United Kingdom
Kate Carruthers ThomasPart two: care and conflict 7. Funding journeys in health technology in Finland: the atypical stories of Sara and Heidi
Oili-Helena Ylijoki8. Caring about research: gender, research funding and labour in the Canadian academy
Marie A. Vander Kloet & Caitlin Campisi9. The gendered affective economy of funding: conflicting realities of university leaders and researchers in Finnish academia
Johanna Hokka, Elisa Kurtti, Pia Olsson, & Tiina Suopajärvi10. Black women academics, research funding and institutional misogynoir in the United Kingdom
Shirley Anne TatePart three: funding and defunding11. Status hierarchies, gender bias and disrespect: ethnographic observations of Swedish Research Council review panels
Lambros Roumbanis12. Tracing excellence and equity in research funding: policy change in the Canada Research Chairs Program
Merli Tamtik & Dawn Sutherland13. Women academics under RAE and REF: the changing research funding policy landscape in the United Kingdom
Lisa Lucas14. Research funding organisations as change agents for gender equality: policies, practices and paradoxes in Sweden
Liisa Husu & Helen PetersonIndex
About the author
Sandra Acker is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Canada.
Oili-Helena Ylijoki is Senior Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland.
Michelle K. McGinn is Professor and Acting Vice-President, Research at Brock University, Canada.
Summary
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.
