‘Moving to stay in the same place?’ Academics and theatrical artists as exemplars of the ‘mobile middle’

Loacker, Bernadette; Śliwa, Martyna

doi:10.1177/1350508415598247

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“…However, obtaining permanent positions has become increasingly difficult for ECAs, and their ability to attract external research funding – often a precondition to producing research with impact – is below average (Laudel and Gläser, ). In order to secure long‐term employment under conditions of uncertainty and precarity (Dunn, ; Loacker and Śliwa, ), ECAs tend to focus their efforts on working towards highly ranked publications (Prasad, ), perhaps at the expense of impact. On the other hand, tenured and established academics are more likely to have developed the types of network that are conducive to impact activity.…”

Section: Impact Relevance and The Organizational Context Of Uk Heismentioning

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Business and Management Impact Assessment in Research Excellence Framework 2014: Analysis and Reflection

Kellard

Śliwa

2016

British J of Management

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The evaluation of research impact is likely to remain an important element of research quality audits in the UK for the foreseeable future. With this paper, we contribute to debates on impact and relevance of business and management studies research through an analysis of Research Excellence Framework 2014 impact scores within the business and management unit of assessment. We offer insights into the organizational contexts of UK business schools within which impact is produced, drawing attention to the issues of linkages with research intensity, grant income generation, research team size, career stage and gender of academics, and whether impact activity is focused on private or public sector organizations and national or international reach. We put forward recommendations for managers responsible for business schools and higher education policymakers regarding management and organizational policies and processes, as well as possible changes to the rules guiding future research excellence audits.

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Section: Impact Relevance and The Organizational Context Of Uk Heismentioning

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Business and Management Impact Assessment in Research Excellence Framework 2014: Analysis and Reflection

Kellard

Śliwa

2016

British J of Management

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“…MoranoFoadi 2005;Richardson and Zikic 2007), the findings highlight a potentially problematic consequence of mobility requirements. This factor may play a particularly important role for career insecurity not only in academia but also in other professional contexts (Loacker and Sliwa 2016). Yet in academia, geographical mobility seems to be particularly crucial, since moves result not only from professional development needs but also from fixed-term employment contracts, legislation, and the scarcity of professorships.…”

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What makes academic careers less insecure? The role of individual-level antecedents

Ortlieb

Weiss

2018

High Educ

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The early stages of an academic career are fraught with insecurity. By focusing on the individual and his or her background, this article sets out to analyse and develop theories for this insecurity. We see academic career insecurity as a mix of how much someone wants to pursue a job in academia and what they feel is the probability of reaching their goal. The article draws on concepts of boundaryless careers and protean careers to theorise about the antecedents of insecurity. Empirical analysis is based on survey data from early-career researchers at a large Austrian university. The findings indicate that the most important individual factors that reduce academic career insecurity are the willingness to be geographically mobile, self-attribution of previous career success, a high proportion of working time devoted to research and networking, as well as being at an advanced career stage. The article demonstrates the potential and limits of the boundaryless and protean career concepts for studying academic careers. Practical measures are that universities should provide early-career researchers with temporal space for research and networking, facilitate stays at other universities, inform them about career success factors, and tailor faculty development programmes to the distinct stages of academic careers.

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“…With regard to academic expatriates, the literature concurs that their mobilities are highly variable in terms such as age, career and life stages, class, gender, and ethnicity. Geographical mobility can be more of a necessity for early career academics faced with limited academic vacancies and precarity in the home country (Carrozza & Minucci, 2014;Loacker & Śliwa, 2016). This is in contrast to senior academics with permanent positions where movement to another country is less of an economic necessity as they temporarily prioritise lifestyle, adventure, and travel over career development (see Butler & Richardson, 2013;Richardson & McKenna, 2002;Selmer & Lauring, 2010).…”

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Academic and teacher expatriates: Mobilities, positionalities, and subjectivities

Koh

Sin

2020

Geography Compass

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Foreign academics and international school teachers have received little attention in migration studies and human geography despite their rapidly growing numbers and diversity in the global education landscape. This paper explores the inconsistent terms and categorical definitions attached to them and puts forth the value of approaching them as migrants under the term "expatriate." It critically reviews an emerging body of work, led by human resource management and education literature, which uncovers the complexities and unique specificities of their mobilities. Our review reveals the diverse and uneven mobility structures, practices, and outcomes of academic and teacher expatriation that are stratified by gender, age, class, race, ethnicity, and nationality.Using the concept of translocational positionality, we argue that these intersectional positions must be situated within geographical contexts of power and differentiation to make visible the multiple, contingent, and contradictory realities of such expatriation. Doing so opens avenues for more nuanced and balanced insights into the privileges and vulnerabilities that confront these expatriates and which make them distinct and worthy of study.

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‘Moving to stay in the same place?’ Academics and theatrical artists as exemplars of the ‘mobile middle’

Cited by 39 publications

References 80 publications

Business and Management Impact Assessment in Research Excellence Framework 2014: Analysis and Reflection

Business and Management Impact Assessment in Research Excellence Framework 2014: Analysis and Reflection

What makes academic careers less insecure? The role of individual-level antecedents

Academic and teacher expatriates: Mobilities, positionalities, and subjectivities

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