The Social Production of Research

Perspectives on Funding and Gender

Sandra Acker, Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Michelle K. McGinn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032361437
• eBook ISBN: 9781040028551
• Topic: Didattica
• Subtopic: Didattica generale

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

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Frontispiece
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Editors’ acknowledgements
• Series editors’ introduction
• PART 1 Introduction
• PART 2 Stability and change
• PART 3 Care and conflict
• PART 4 Funding and defunding
• Index