Academic career: on institutions, social capital and gender

Angervall, Petra; Gustafsson, Jan‐Eric; Silfver, Eva

doi:10.1080/07294360.2018.1477743

Cited by 30 publications

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“…This positioning instilled a sense of anticipatory fear within her (Edwards, 1999;Kirrane et al, 2017). Given that academia is a small and tight-knit community, where social capital is critical for career advancement (Angervall et al, 2018), having a negative reputation can lead to significant career disadvantages. However, at the same time, Marsha also felt that someone should speak up and voice the injustice she encountered, though, in the end, she reluctantly acquiesced.…”

Section: Negative Consequences Follow Those Who Challenge the Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia

Fernando

Prasad

2018

Human Relations

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The #MeToo and the Time’s Up movements have raised the issue of sexual harassment encountered by women to the level of public consciousness. Together, these movements have captured not only the ubiquity of sexual harassment in the everyday functioning of the workplace, but they have also demonstrated how women are silenced about their experiences of it. Inspired by the political and the social currents emerging from these movements, and theoretically informed by ideas of discursive hegemony, rhetorical persuasion and affective practice, this article draws on a qualitative study of early- and mid-career female academics in business schools to answer the following question: How are victims who start to voice their experiences of sex-based harassment silenced within the workplace? Our findings reveal that organizational silence is the product of various third-party actors (e.g. line managers, HR, colleagues) who mobilize myriad discourses to persuade victims not to voice their discontent. We develop the concept of ‘reluctant acquiescence’ to explain the victims’ response to organizational silencing. In terms of its contributions to the extant literature, this article: (i) moves away from explanations of sex-based harassment that focus solely (or predominately) on the actions of individual perpetrators; and (ii) shows how reluctant acquiescence leads to maintaining the status quo in the organization. In highlighting features of academic work that facilitate reluctant acquiescence, we call for more contextualization of the dynamics of sex-based harassment specifically, and other forms of workplace mistreatment broadly.

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Section: Negative Consequences Follow Those Who Challenge the Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia

Fernando

Prasad

2018

Human Relations

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“…Despite the interrelation between experiences of the various roles embedded in the senior lecturer position and the marketization and individualization context characterizing academia, the storylines in this paper should be understood as gendered experiences (Angervall et al 2018;Berger et al 2015;Carvalho & Santiago 2010;Lipton 2017). It is reasonable that the experience of the role of civil servant is interwoven with gendered experiences of being a woman working as a senior lecturer (cf.…”

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“…Moreover, in academia, there are strong gender structures (Acker 2005(Acker , 2006Angervall et al 2018;Berger et al 2015;Lipton 2017). Although overrepresented among students, women seldom become professors, and even though an almost equal number of men and women obtain PhDs in Sweden, only 22% of professors in 2011 were women (Statistics Sweden 2012).…”

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The Invisible Civil Servant: How Female Senior Lecturers in Sweden Narrate Work

Wall

2020

NJWLS

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This article examines the public administration role of university personnel who are state employees by analyzing female senior lecturers’ stories on working in Swedish universities, especially regarding how their role as a civil servant is narrated as part of their work. A performative narrative approach was used to analyze the in-depth interviews of four female senior lecturers at Swedish universities. Through the analysis, three shared storylines emerged: I don’t think of myself as a civil servant; You have to keep a certain level and It’s a solitary duty.The study revealed how the senior lecturer position was narrated by the interviewees in terms of duties to students and the public and the lack of efficient social support and knowledge.The findings are discussed as gendered expressions of working as a female senior lecturer in Sweden.

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“…Teacher education in Sweden often lacks stable research environments and research education (Kallós, 2009;Lindberg, 2004). Research possibilities within the field of teacher education are increasingly restricted to a small number of universities, specifically the six more research-intensive universities in Sweden, in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Umeå, Uppsala, Lund, and Linköping (Swedish Research Council, 2019), whilst external research funds are lacking in smaller colleges (Angervall, Gustafsson, & Silfver, 2018). To reach national status and influence as a researcher, connection to one of the six relatively research-intensive universities is decisive (Swedish Research Council, 2019).…”

Section: Tensions In Swedish Teacher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To reach national status and influence as a researcher, connection to one of the six relatively research-intensive universities is decisive (Swedish Research Council, 2019). External research funds, access to nationally as well as internationally influential networks are lacking in smaller colleges, although there is also room for research merit (Angervall et al, 2018). These realities highlight the added pressure on researchers to perform in universities outside the group of six if they are to keep in step with their counterparts in the more influential, high-status universities.…”

Section: Tensions In Swedish Teacher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research or teaching? Contradictory demands on Swedish teacher educators and the consequences for the quality of teacher education

Angervall

Baldwin

Beach

2020

JPHE

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Based on a policy analysis and interviews with assistant lecturers and lecturers (with a PhD) who are heavily involved in teacher education, the present article addresses contemporary tensions and challenges in Swedish teacher education. The point of departure is the theoretical framework of mission stretch and the third space professional in teacher education with the aim of investigating how teacher educators experience and navigate their daily work. The findings of the study illustrate the tensions teacher educators experience between research and teaching tasks, between a constant flow of tasks, large student groups, and demands of high-quality teaching. The findings also show a gap between the practical anchoring of some research in teacher education and feelings of tension between teaching practices and the value of research. In conclusion, teacher education would seem to be developing into a cluster of tasks, challenges, expectations, and skills. This indicates that teaching and research are not the only missions and cannot be taken for granted in light of how teachers struggle to define their professional knowledge and value with respect to increasingly strong competitive demands for research performance.

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Academic career: on institutions, social capital and gender

Cited by 30 publications

References 26 publications

Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia

Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia

The Invisible Civil Servant: How Female Senior Lecturers in Sweden Narrate Work

Research or teaching? Contradictory demands on Swedish teacher educators and the consequences for the quality of teacher education

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