Academic Markets, Academic Careers: Where Do We Stand?

Goastellec, Gaële; Park, Elke; Ateş, Gülay; Toffel, Kevin

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4614-5_6

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“…Various funding (e.g. ‘innovative training networks’ 2 ) and quality assurance mechanisms (such as the European Charter for Researchers and the by-Code of Conduct in Recruitment of Researchers 3 ) were introduced to help new researcher mobility, contribute to the standardisation of the process of research and quality of the output, as well as combat academic ‘inbreeding’ and promote meritocracy (Goastellec et al, 2013): all envisaged to strengthen the EU’s research innovation capacity (Sousa and Magalhāes, 2014). Knowledge, in words of Barbara Kehm (2009), became too important a commodity to leave in the hands of the professors and departments and thus became a matter of first national, and then supranational policy (p.166) governing Europe’s ‘flexible knowledge workers’ (Balaban, 2017).…”

Section: The Construction Of the New European Researchermentioning

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Constructing academic identity in the European higher education space: Experiences of early career educational researchers

Djerasimovic

Villani²

2019

European Educational Research Journal

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This exploratory paper presents insights from a qualitative interview-based study of the academic identity-building among a group of early career researchers working in the field of education across the European higher education space. Set against a policy background framed by the initiatives in European higher education and research policy, geared towards a production of a mobile, entrepreneurial researcher in pursuit of ‘valuable’ knowledge, the respondents’ narratives reveal individual complexity, but also emerging patterns of professional identification. We identify the traditional academic values of creating and sharing knowledge validated by an epistemic community, and pursuing autonomy and collegiality in research, as still dominant, however, find these interacting with the demonstration of a strong proactive, entrepreneurial spirit, and a lack of institutional attachment. The narratives indicate the availability of supportive, encouraging communities as being of high significance, and contest the notions of Europeanisation and the utility of geographic mobility in researchers’ identities. The paper discusses different types of academic identification driven by value orientation and social attachment that emerged from the early career researchers’ interviews, alongside pervasive issues around mobility raised in most narratives, and concludes with suggestions for further study.

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Section: The Construction Of the New European Researchermentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing academic identity in the European higher education space: Experiences of early career educational researchers

Djerasimovic

Villani²

2019

European Educational Research Journal

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“…At the same time, coincidence plays a major factor in career progress (van Balen, 2010;van Arensbergen et al, 2013), e.g., obtaining external financial means is crucial but acquiring such funding is often based on random factors. The length of time during which junior academics are employed on temporary contracts, is increasing as well (Goastellec et al, 2013).…”

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Competition in Science: Links Between Publication Pressure, Grant Pressure and the Academic Job Market

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In the current discussions concerning the pressure for publication and to obtain grants, the questions about what publication and grant pressure actually involve and how they are linked to the academic job market, are often neglected. In this study we show that publication and grand pressure are not just external forces but internal ones as scientists apply pressure to themselves in the process of competition. Through two surveys, one of 1,133 recent PhDs at five Dutch universities and one of 225 postdoctoral researchers at two Dutch universities, we found that publication and grant pressure have to be considered in relation with competition for academic jobs. While publication and grant pressure are perceived to be too high by a majority of these early career researchers, whereas the effects of publication and grant pressure by themselves are limited.

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“…The tightening situation of researchers, manifesting as increasingly uncertain future prospects and poor working conditions 1 , was further fuelled by the global economic recession that cut government budgets to HEIs so that they became more dependent on external funding. This has had a major impact on career prospects of academic workers, and particularly of those in the early-career stage (Brechelmacher et al 2015;Goastellec et al 2013;Huisman et al 2002).…”

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Working outside academia? Perceptions of early-career, fixed-term researchers on changing careers

Aarnikoivu

Nokkala

Siekkinen

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European Journal of Higher Education

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This article examines the perceptions of early-career, fixed-term researchers in Finnish universities towards changing careers. It maps out the reasons this group has considered the change and where they see themselves in five years. As a theoretical framework, a synthesisation of variables related to career change, created by Ryan et al. (2011), was used. The results show that the most common reasons for early-career researchers to change careers are job-security related stress, job-related dissatisfaction, and salary. Over half of the respondents would like to work at a university in five years; however, half of the respondents would also be happy to work in industry. Further examination of the responses highlighted the polarisation of those academics who were optimistic about their future employment opportunities in academia and those with highly pessimistic outlooks. The results of the study bear crucial importance when addressing the current discussion and issues related to the career paths of early-career researchers in Europe.

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Academic Markets, Academic Careers: Where Do We Stand?

Cited by 10 publications

References 50 publications

Constructing academic identity in the European higher education space: Experiences of early career educational researchers

Constructing academic identity in the European higher education space: Experiences of early career educational researchers

Competition in Science: Links Between Publication Pressure, Grant Pressure and the Academic Job Market

Working outside academia? Perceptions of early-career, fixed-term researchers on changing careers

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