Well-Being of Early-Career Researchers: Insights from a Swedish Survey

Signoret, Carine; Ng, Elaine Hoi Ning; Silva, Stéphanie Da; Tack, Ayco J. M.; Voss, Ulrikke; Lidö, Helga Höifödt; Patthey, Cédric; Ericsson, Madelene; Hadrévi, Jenny; Balachandran, Chanchal

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“…Funders, university administrators, labour unions, professional societies, departmental mentors and scholars of higher education have all expressed concern about the precarity of ECRs in the neoliberal academy (e.g. Herschberg et al, 2018;Locke et al, 2016;Maher & Sureda Anfres, 2016;McAlpine & Amundsen, 2017;Signoret et al, 2019;University and College Union, 2016). In tandem with this turn to the experience of ECRs and the marketization of the university, we have seen a surge in academic events aimed at ECRs in the form of pre-conference conferences, networking events and workshops, not dissimilar from our 'salon' at CISP.…”

Section: Ecrs As Objects Of Carementioning

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‘Not in our Name’

Nicholls

Henry

Dennis

2021

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In this paper, we draw on our collaborative work running a salon for thinking about care in STS research, which quickly became more about fostering an ethico-politics for thinking with care as a mode of academic intervention. Not dissimilar to the origins of the salon in nineteenth-century France, the salon provided a provocative and disruptive space for early career researchers (ECRs) to think together. As attention and critique increasingly point towards the unequal distribution of harms arising from marketization and the vulnerability of ECRs in the ‘neoliberal university,’ we have witnessed a surge in activities that promise a supportive space, such as pre-conference conferences, seminar series, discussion forums and self-care workshops. In this paper, we ask not only what these modes of care might make possible, but also what exclusionary practices and patterns they mask or render more palatable (Ahmed, 2004; Duclos & Criado, 2020; Martin et al., 2015; Murphy, 2015). Reflecting on our experiences of organizing and participating in the salon, with the stated purpose to explore ‘ecologies of care’ as an embodied socio-material practice (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017), we move from care ‘out there’ in STS research to care ‘in here’. We follow threads spun by and out from the group to rethink our own academic care practices and how to do the academy otherwise.

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Section: Ecrs As Objects Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Not in our Name’

Nicholls

Henry

Dennis

2021

NJSTS

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“…This includes studies of how junior scholars’ research practices and academic selves are increasingly shaped by neoliberal ideals (Archer 2008 ), performance indicators (Müller and Rijcke 2018 ), funding regimes (Roumbanis 2019 ), and policy measures such as mobility (Ackers 2008 ). Having to deal with a high level of job insecurity and pressing career norms, studies have also shed light on various social and political aspects of working as an early career academic, such as mental health problems (Signoret et al 2019 ), emotion-work (Bloch 2002 ), and issues of gender discrimination (Murgia and Poggio 2018 ). Furthermore, literature focusing on academic mentoring has highlighted the importance of both social and human capital in academic careers.…”

Section: Early Career Academics: Uncertainty and Worth In Project-basmentioning

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Navigating Uncertainty: Early Career Academics and Practices of Appraisal Devices

Nästesjö

2020

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There is a lack of objective evaluative standards for academic work. While this has been recognized in studies of how gatekeepers pass judgment on the works of others, little is known about how scholars deal with the uncertainty about how their work will be evaluated by gatekeepers. Building upon 35 interviews with early career academics in political science and history, this paper explores how junior scholars use appraisal devices to navigate this kind of uncertainty. Appraisal devices offer trusted and knowledgeable appraisals through which scholars are informed whether their work and they themselves are good enough to succeed in academia. Investigating how early career academics rely upon appraisals from assessors (i.e., ‘academic mentors’), the study adds to existing literature on uncertainty and worth in academic life by drawing attention to how scholars’ anticipatory practices are informed by trusting the judgment of others. The empirical analysis demonstrates that early career academics are confronted with multiple and conflicting appraisals that they must interpret and differentiate between. However, the institutional conditions for dealing with uncertainty about what counts in future evaluations, as well as which individuals generally come to function as assessors, differ between political science and history. This has an impact on both valuation practices and socialization structures. Focusing on what I call practices of appraisal devices, the paper provides a conceptual understanding of how scholars cope with uncertainties about their future. Furthermore, it expands existing theory by demonstrating how scholars’ self-concept and desired identities are key to the reflexive ways appraisal devices are used in the course of action.

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“…In diesen frühen 1990er-Jahren war TeX bereits so weit verbreitet, dass von ambitionierten Studierenden 36 erwartet 35 Ott, »30 Jahre Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung an der Universität Tübingen -80 Kolloquien: mehr als nur zwei Jubiläen«. 41 Im Jahr 2016 akquirierte Elsevier den vormals unabhängigen und international etabliertesten Preprintserver für den gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Bereich »Social Sciences Research Network« (SSRN) -was zu Recht kritische Diskussionen verursacht. 42 Nutzen nämlich einf lussreiche Akteure ihre dominante Position, um weitere systemrelevante Dienste zu akquirieren, entstehen »Lock-in«-Situationen, wie sie Peter Kraker und Maxi Schramm (2019) in der nachfolgenden Grafik (vgl.…”

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“…Fachübergreifende Zeitschriften, sogenannte Mega-Journals, bieten Autorinnen und Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen eine Möglichkeit zur Publikation. 41…”

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Publikationsberatung an Universitäten

2020

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Karin Lackner (Mag. rer. nat., Mag. phil.), geb. 1980, studierte Astronomie und Geschichte an der Universität Wien und ist Fachreferentin für Physik und Astronomie an der Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Graz. Ab 2016 baute sie gemeinsam mit einem kleinen Team die Publikationsservices der Universität Graz auf und berät Forschende zu unterschiedlichen Aspekten des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens. Ihre Themenschwerpunkte liegen dabei auf Bild-und Urheberrecht, Open Access und Fake Journals. ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6096-1717 Lisa Schilhan (Mag. phil., Dr. phil.), geb. 1982, promovierte in Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Graz und baute als Open-Access-Beauftragte der Universität Graz das institutionelle Repositorium unipub auf. Sie betreut die an der Universität herausgegebenen Gold-Open-Access-Zeitschriften, die auf dem Repositorium publiziert werden, und leitet seit März 2019 die Publikationsservices der Universität Graz. Sie unterstützt die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unter anderem in den Bereichen Open Access und Academic Search Engine Optimization. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1425-850X Christian Kaier (Mag. phil.), geb. 1975, studierte Anglistik/Amerikanistik an der Universität Graz und war für das juristische Verlagsprogramm eines österreichischen Wissenschaftsverlages verantwortlich, bevor er an die Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Graz wechselte. Er arbeitet im Bereich der Publikationsservices und ist Ansprechpartner für die Themen Wissenschaftliche Kommunikation, Forschungsdatenmanagement und Publikationsförderung. ORCID iD: https:// Publikationsberatung an Universitäten 10 dieses Buches stellen, denn es ist als Thema ist insbesondere an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken bereits seit Jahren enorm präsent, und entsprechende Kenntnisse der Beratenden können daher in der Regel vorausgesetzt oder an anderer Stelle erworben werden. Als zentrale Entwicklung im Bereich des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens wird Open Access in zahlreichen Beiträgen dieses Bandes aufgegriffen und bildet in einigen Fällen einen thematischen Schwerpunkt.Ergänzend zu diesem Band stellen wir eine Materialiensammlung unter https://doi.org/10.25364/pub likationsberatung-materialien zur Verfügung. Die dort bereitgestellten Materialien können für eigene Vorträge und Workshops weitergenutzt werden.

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Well-Being of Early-Career Researchers: Insights from a Swedish Survey

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

‘Not in our Name’

‘Not in our Name’

Navigating Uncertainty: Early Career Academics and Practices of Appraisal Devices

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