Inequalities and the paradigm of excellence in academia. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Fiona Jenkins, Barbara Hoenig, Susanne Maria Weber, Andrea Wolffram.
• Editors: Jenkins, Fiona, 1965-; Hoenig, Barbara (Barbara Bach-Hoenig); Weber, Susanne; Wolffram, Andrea, 1969-
• Contents: Introduction: Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia Fiona Jenkins, Barbara Hoenig, Susanne Maria Weber, and Andrea Wolffram Part I. "Inclusive Excellence": How are excellence and gender equality combined? 1. Are Equality and Excellence a Happy Marriage of Terms? How Gender Figures in the Business Case for Change Fiona Jenkins 2. Implementing Gender Mainstreaming in a Discourse of Academic Excellence Anne-Charlott Callerstig 3. What are the Real Attitudes of Professors Toward Gender Equality? Eva Wregzyn, Lara Altenstädter, Ute Klammer and Ralitsa Petrova-Stoyanov 4. An Excellent Researcher?: Institutional Programmatics and Organisational Strategies in the Academic Field Sarah Wieners and Susanne Maria Weber Part II. Constructing Excellence: How does gender bias affect the evaluation of excellence? 5. Gendered Representations of Excellence in Science and Technology Andrea Wolffram 6. Gender Bias in Peer Review Panels: – "The Elephant in the Room" Helene Schiffbaenker, Peter van den Besselaar, Florian Holzinger, Charlie Mom and Claartje Vinkenburg 7. Gendered Excellence for Business Interests: A Critical Examination of the Construction of Centres of Excellence in the Estonian Research Policy Discourse Kadri Aavik and Raili Marling 8. Excellence?: Gendered Micropolitics in an Irish and Spanish University Context Pat O’Connor and Estrella Montes-López Part III. Reproducing Inequality: How does the discourse of ‘excellence’ impact women’s careers? 9. Scientific Careers and Mobility Patterns of Top Researchers of European Excellence Barbara Hoenig 10. The Bargaining of Excellence: Who’s (Not) Appointed by Academics? Sabine Kradolfer and Farinaz Fassa 11. Gendered Excellence in Physics Paulina Sekula, Ewelina Ciaputa, Justyna Struzik, Ewa Krzaklewska 12. Excellent and Care-less?: Gendered Everyday Practices of Early Career Scholars in Germany and Austria Kristina Binner and Lena Weber Is Excellence really so Excellent?: An Afterword Myra Marx Ferree
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 378.0082; Women in higher education -- Europe; Sexism in education -- Europe; Feminism and higher education -- Europe; Educational equalization -- Europe; Excellence -- Europe
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429581977; 9780429583872; 9780429198625
• Related ISBNs: 9780367188368
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