Projectification of Doctoral Training? How Research Fields Respond to a New Funding Regime

Torka, Marc

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“…The social organization of research has been changing considerably over recent decades, with most of the changes related to the re-shaping of academic organizations according to the logics of NPM (Gill, 2014;Mirowski, 2011;Shore, 2008). This includes new systems of research performance evaluation and monitoring, an increasingly competitive allocation of resources, the projectification of work (Torka, 2018), as well as the related temporalization and precarization of employment for large segments of the research workforce. In addition to addressing the epistemic uncertainties of the research process, researchers must increasingly address uncertainties related to whether they can secure further funding, obtain new contracts, and remain in academic research (Fochler et al, 2016;Sigl, 2016;Ylijoki, 2010).…”

Section: Uncertain Lives In Research: Shifting Work Organization Andmentioning

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Anticipatory Uncertainty: How Academic and Industry Researchers in the Life Sciences Experience and Manage the Uncertainties of the Research Process Differently

Fochler

Sigl

2018

Science as Culture

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The institutional contexts of research increasingly require researchers to anticipate their productivity and the uncertainties inherent in their research. This applies to both academic researchers and to researchers in start-up companies. This creates a specific kind of uncertainty, anticipatory uncertainty, that we define as the state of being uncertain as to whether research processes will be productive in a specific time frame and along situated definitions of good performance. In the life sciences, this anticipatory uncertainty is experienced and managed differently, depending on how research is organized and the cultural resources available in specific institutional contexts. In biotechnology companies, there is a readiness to embrace dynamic changes in both research strategies and the organization of work in response to new developments in the progress of the overall research agenda. In academia, the ability of research groups to react with similar flexibility seems significantly constrained by the individual attribution of research work and credit, and the correspondingly high level of individual anticipatory uncertainty. This raises questions about how far the current organization of academic research allows epistemic uncertainty to be embraced and corresponding risks to be taken, rather than safe questions to be pursued.

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Section: Uncertain Lives In Research: Shifting Work Organization Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anticipatory Uncertainty: How Academic and Industry Researchers in the Life Sciences Experience and Manage the Uncertainties of the Research Process Differently

Fochler

Sigl

2018

Science as Culture

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“…Umbrella organisations typically offer optional courses, mostly for developing transferable skills, and arrange events where doctoral candidates can meet and network each other [41]. They appear to have less impact on the daily research training for doctoral candidates than doctoral programmes [40,42]. Such doctoral programmes are typically organised along a thematic line and classically offer courses that are more specific for their respective discipline or research topic than those of their umbrella organisations [40][41][42].…”

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Regulations and practices of structured doctoral education in the life sciences in Germany

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Structured doctoral education is increasingly preferred compared to the individual model. Several science policy organisations give recommendations on how to structure doctoral education. However, there is little research on to what extent these recommendations find their way into practice. In our study, we first compared European and German recommendations on doctoral education with, second, the institutional regulations of structured doctoral programmes (N = 98) in the life sciences at twelve different German universities. Additionally, we third asked doctoral graduates (N = 1796) of these structured doctoral programmes and graduates of individual doctoral studies about their experience in doctoral education. Fourth, we contrasted the regulations of structured doctoral programmes with the reported experiences of their graduates. We found significant deviations of the reported practices of graduates from the regulations of their organisations, regarding the student admission, supervision and curricular activities of doctoral candidates. The efficacy of structured versus traditional doctoral education should be examined based on reported practice rather than on the respective written regulations.

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“…Formações transversais, ensino à distância, entre outras, constituem algumas destas iniciativas que prometem acelerar o tempo de preparação e apresentação das teses. Mesmo assim, a falta de tempo continua a ser um problema persistente e proeminente nas experiências dos estudantes de doutoramento, estejam estes em regime de dedicação total aos trabalhos da tese ou a repartirem o tempo com outras atividades profissionais, com ou sem remuneração, e independentemente da situação pessoal e/ou familiar (Macaulay e Davies, 2019;Wrigth e Cockrane, 2000;Torka, 2018).…”

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Tempo e sociedade em suspenso/Time and society in the lounge

Sampaio¹

2020

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COVID-19 pandemic is going to be a landmark in world-historical time. As a moment of interruption, suspension, and crisis, the current times are strongly disruptive and effervescent. Running to anticipate consequences, society is in the lounge, waiting for the phase to pass, expecting the equilibrium to be restored. However, one knows that time flows, and reversibility will not be possible. This book presents a set of contributions aiming to interrogate and understand the meanings of time collapse and anticipate its effects and consequences, from the perspective of the social sciences.

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Projectification of Doctoral Training? How Research Fields Respond to a New Funding Regime

Cited by 40 publications

References 35 publications

Anticipatory Uncertainty: How Academic and Industry Researchers in the Life Sciences Experience and Manage the Uncertainties of the Research Process Differently

Anticipatory Uncertainty: How Academic and Industry Researchers in the Life Sciences Experience and Manage the Uncertainties of the Research Process Differently

Regulations and practices of structured doctoral education in the life sciences in Germany

Tempo e sociedade em suspenso/Time and society in the lounge

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