A PhD In motion: Advancing a critical academic mobilities approach (CAMA) to researching short-term mobility schemes for doctoral students

Henderson, Emily F.

doi:10.1080/13562517.2018.1552252

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“…It is also the case that distress can be experienced when mobility occasions encounters with inequity, as Henderson (2019) demonstrates in this special issue. This study takes an autoethnographic approach in looking at two schemes funded by a UK research council that facilitated short-term doctoral mobility.…”

Section: Educational Mobilities and Perverse Privilegementioning

confidence: 90%

“…Short-term doctoral mobility schemes are thus often positioned as occasions of privilege for those doctoral researchers able to gain access to them, opening up a range of career benefits. Henderson (2019), however, identifies ways in which the mobility imperative that underlies these schemes can result in exclusionary reproductions. She further demonstrates how the experience of a short-term doctoral mobility scheme can provide occasions for those involved to undermine cultural stereotypes, and to stimulate decolonisation and democratisation of knowledge production.…”

Section: Educational Mobilities and Perverse Privilegementioning

confidence: 99%

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Educational mobilities and internationalised higher education: critical perspectives

Kahn

Misiaszek

2019

Teaching in Higher Education

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Section: Educational Mobilities and Perverse Privilegementioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Educational Mobilities and Perverse Privilegementioning

confidence: 99%

Educational mobilities and internationalised higher education: critical perspectives

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Misiaszek

2019

Teaching in Higher Education

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“…The formalization of mobility as a marker of success is inscribed in university rankings systems in the form of measures of internationalization (Marginson 2014). Mobility is also promoted in national and regional research education policy as key to the development of future research leaders and national research productivity (Henderson 2019b). Generally, the type of mobility that is promoted and valued is longer-term, international mobility.…”

Section: Mobility Care and Gender In Academic Careersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While this article is envisaged as a contribution to the field of academic mobilities research in general, the specific form of mobility examined here is conference travel. Conference travel and other short-term academic mobility (measured in days and weeks, and including domestic travel) have been under-researched in the academic mobility field, as often only longer, international stays of several months or years, or permanent moves are recognized as worthy of study (Henderson 2019b). However, there is a clear rationale for interlinking different forms of mobility and for recognizing the salience of short-term mobility in the wider field of academic mobilities.…”

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“…This article takes a sociological approach to researching academic mobility, which interrogates the underpinning values of mobility as well as the ways in which mobile subjects are constructed and the micro-processes of mobility (Henderson 2019b). In this article, theoretical tools from the sociology of work and the family are deployed, in particular the work of Arlie Hochschild (Hochschild 2012;Hochschild and Machung 2012).…”

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Sticky care and conference travel: unpacking care as an explanatory factor for gendered academic immobility

Henderson

2020

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While there is increasing awareness of the contributing effect of the academic mobility imperative on gendered inequalities in the academic profession at large, there is a missing link in current research on this topic. Namely, while 'care' is often named as the explanatory factor for why women, and to an extent professionals of any gender at peak childrearing age, are less mobile, this article argues that care is insufficient as an explanatory factor for immobility. Care and other terms such as 'family responsibilities' and 'domestic obligations' come to serve as a shorthand or explanatory factor for gendered immobility, but these terms elide the complexity of the relationship between care and mobility. This article argues that, without a fuller understanding of how care and mobility intersect, inclusivity drives run the risk of misunderstanding or even reproducing the problem. The specific mobility addressed here is international conference travel as a form of short-term academic mobility which contributes to academic career success and the perpetuation of a mobile academic ideal. The article elaborates a novel conceptual construct, 'sticky care', which is applied to empirical data from a diary-interview study of the impact of caring responsibilities on academics' conference participation. Two dominant mobility-related strategies are elaborated: 'night/s away' and 'get back'. The overarching ambition of this article is at a conceptual level: to bring more complexity and nuance to the concept of care when it is mobilized as an explanatory factor for (gendered) immobility and indeed for inequalities in the academic profession at large.

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Stickiness in academic career (im)mobilities of STEM early career researchers: an insight from Greece

Tzanakou

2020

High Educ

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Academic and policy discourse has idealised academic mobility despite studies showing that it can have adverse effects on individuals’ experiences and contribute towards exacerbating existing inequalities. This article focuses on career immobility stories of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) early career researchers that are variously sticky with emotion and affect. It places emphasis on the challenges, frictions and emotional tensions for early career researchers as part of this decision-making, irrespective of whether they decide to move or not. To do this, it deploys the concept of stickiness, which allows investigating the intersection and co-construction of embodied experiences of early career academics with the internationalisation discourse of academic excellence which are not often brought together. Focused on a largely under-examined population and context, it is based on a qualitative analysis of 15 in-depth interviews with a subsample of survey respondents, as part of a mixed methods study of Greek researchers in STEM. This article compares two groups of early career researchers who are seemingly at odds but have a lot in common: those with a highly international outlook moving to build an international profile and those who decide to stay and pursue research aspirations within a national context. Stickiness is demonstrated in two ways: stickiness to establishing an international profile and an academic career dictated by the internationalisation discourse; stickiness to affective considerations which are temporal, fluid and often understated. The main difference is how early career researchers address this stickiness: through the normative international mobility or participation in collaborative funding programmes. This article shows academic mobility is not only associated with benefits but can entail negative implications for individuals. It also provides empirical insights into hidden STEM early career researchers and elaborates a concept of stickiness in academic immobility with discursive and affective layers, highlighting the importance of considering affect in career development scholarship.

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A PhD In motion: Advancing a critical academic mobilities approach (CAMA) to researching short-term mobility schemes for doctoral students

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Cited by 20 publications

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Educational mobilities and internationalised higher education: critical perspectives

Educational mobilities and internationalised higher education: critical perspectives

Sticky care and conference travel: unpacking care as an explanatory factor for gendered academic immobility

Stickiness in academic career (im)mobilities of STEM early career researchers: an insight from Greece

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