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Background: This article contributes to the literature on gender and academic mobility by contrasting how postcolonial knowledge relations are played out in Swedish, Mozambican and South African academic workplaces. More specifically, it explores the experiences of gendered and racialised inequality in everyday academic working life in the three countries. Sample and Method: The respondents are Mozambican scholars who have participated in a Swedish development-aid-supported PhD training programme in which mobility is mandatory. Using an online survey and interviews, their experiences of gendered and racialised inequality are theorised through the lenses of postcolonial knowledge theory and feminist translocational intersectionality. Results: The results point out the importance of highlighting the complex ways in which bodies and spaces are mutually produced and how these change in different postcolonial translocal academic settings and create differing conditions for academic work. In this context, the concept of 'embodied discursive geographies' is suggested as a way forward.

Despite a growing interest in gender differences in scientific careers, few studies have focused on the impact of research organization on researchers. This article offers a new approach to this issue by introducing bibliometric maps combined with sociological data and interviews, taking both the research organization and the experiences of the individual researcher into account. The results indicate that gender biases operate at various levels of the research organization and are often imbedded in seemingly gender-neutral processes and practices in the everyday working life of researchers.In recent decades, research on gender differences in scientific careers has been an area of growing interest. Many studies have pointed out the importance of studying scientific careers over time, since it is the cumulative effect of several positive and negative events that shape scientific careers (Cole and Zuckerman 1991; Cole and Singer 1991; Elgquist-Saltzman 1994; Sonnert and Holton 1995). Despite a growing interest in this area, few studies regarding the effect of gender differences on scientific careers have focused on the impact of research organizations. Although organizational and management studies have investigated organizational impact on different work groups, this topic has remained relatively undeveloped in science studies. Academic departments seemed to be a natural starting point for studying the positive and negative events that might influence scientific careers, relating to both individual researchers and their institutional contexts. Academic culture and the daily routines of doing research are as important to consider as the individual researcher's disposition. The gendered situations in a researcher's daily work affect the possibilities of doing research as well as the opportunities, strategies, and ambitions for pursuing an academic career.

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<p class="p1">This article aims to offer some thoughts that go beyond mere bibliometric and scientometric evidence, by empirically and comparatively exploring the conditions for, and the experiences of research and international research collaboration of African PhD holders who graduated with support from development cooperation/aid. The article explores the constraints on research, international research mobility and collaboration, at the intersection of development cooperation and global science regimes. Taking Swedish development cooperation as an example, the article focuses on preconditions and constraints that scholars from Mozambique and Tanzania, in their current positions, experience in their research, with special attention on international mobility and cooperation.</p>