Generation and Gender in Academia

208 Pages·2013·2.746 MB·English

by  Barbara Bagilhole, Kate White (eds.)

Generation and Gender in Academia
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Generation and Gender
in Academia
Editedby
Barbara Bagilhole
LoughboroughUniversity,UK
and
Kate White
UniversityofBallarat,Australia
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Contents
NotesonContributors viii
Part I Introduction
1 TheContext 3
BarbaraBagilholeandKateWhite
Part II ReflectionsofWomeninAcademia
2 AStandardAcademicCareer? 23
PatO’Connor
3 ShapinganAcademicBelonging:TheInterloperSyndrome
byGenderandClass 46
BarbaraBagilhole
4 AMature-ageStudent 65
JennyNeale
5 ANon-typicalAcademicCareer 83
MariadeLourdesMachado-Taylor
6 AnOutsiderinAcademia 103
KateWhite
Part III TheNextGeneration
7 CareersofEarly-andMid-careerAcademics 127
TeresaCarvalho,ÖzlemÖzkanli,HeidiProzeskyand
HelenPeterson
Part IV ExploringGenerationalChange
8 ContinuityandChangeinAcademicCareers 169
KateWhiteandBarbaraBagilhole
Index 196
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Contributors
Barbara Bagilhole is Professor of Equal Opportunities and Social
Policy, School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK, and
has researched and published extensively in the area of equal oppor-
tunities and diversity across gender, race, disability, sexual orientation,
religious belief, age and intersectionality. She is co-editor of Gender,
Power and Management: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Women in Higher
Education(2011).
TeresaCarvalhoisAssistantProfessorattheUniversityofAveiroanda
seniorresearcherattheCenterforResearchinHigherEducationPolicies
(CIPES), Portugal. Her main research interests are institutional gover-
nanceandmanagement,theacademicprofessionandgenderinhigher
education.
Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor is a researcher at the Agency for
Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education and senior research
associateatCIPES,Portugal.Herareasofresearchincludemanagement,
strategic planning, the non-university sector and gender studies. She
is the author of books on higher education and other publications in
EuropeanandAmericanjournals.
Jenny Neale is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Health Services
ResearchCentreatVictoriaUniversityofWellington,NewZealand.She
was formerly Head of the School of Social and Cultural Studies and
the deputy dean in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She
has had a long-term involvement in evaluation and research, with a
particularemphasisongenderanalysis.
PatO’ConnorisProfessorofSociologyandSocialPolicyattheUniver-
sityofLimerick,Ireland.ShewasDeanoftheFacultyofArts,Humanities
andSocialSciencesforthreeterms(2000–10).Shewasthefirstwomanin
bothofthesepositions.Hersixthbook,HigherEducationandtheGendered
WorldofSeniorManagement,isdueoutin2013.
Özlem Özkanlı is Professor of Management at Ankara University,
Turkey.ShepreviouslyworkedattheNationalProductivityCenterand
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NotesonContributors ix
ledseveraltraining/consulting/researchmissions.ShehasbeenVisiting
Professor at Curtin University, Australia, Aalborg University, Denmark,
and Valparaiso University, USA; she is currently teaching at Northern
IllinoisUniversity,USA.
HelenPetersonisAssociateProfessorinSociologyatUppsalaUniversity
andapost-doctoralfellowatLinköpingUniversity,Sweden.Herresearch
includes studies on women managers in higher education, gender and
careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics field,
juniorresearchers’networksandcareermobility,work/lifebalanceissues
andvoluntarychildlessness.
Heidi Prozesky is Senior Lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s
DepartmentofSociologyandSocialAnthropology,SouthAfrica.Forthe
pastdecadeshehasbeenconductingresearch,primarilybymeansofsci-
entometricmethods,onthemeasurementofboththequantitativeand
qualitative dimensions of academic research performance, particularly
astheserelatetogender.
Kate White is Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Ballarat,
Australia,andDirectoroftheWomeninHigherEducationManagement
Network.Herresearchfocusesonwomeninhighereducation,women’s
academiccareersandwomeninscience.Sheisco-editorofGenderPower
andManagement:ACross-CulturalAnalysisofWomeninHigherEducation
(2011).