Carefree conferences? Academics with caring responsibilities performing mobile academic subjectivities

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Central Asian Journalism Studies: Is There a Pathway From Conference Paper to Journal Publication?

“…Attendance and presentation of scholarly papers are important because conferences offer opportunities to exchange ideas, network with peer researchers, and get constructive feedback about one’s own work before journal submission (Bos et al, 2019). They are key sites for development of research and academic careers (Henderson & Moreau, 2020). Their selection process for refereed papers is generally less rigorous than the blind review of journal manuscripts.…”

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

“…She indicates that 4 days away involves significant labour on her part to ensure that arrangements are in place, but extends this with the notion that 4 days away 'is quite a lot'. This seems to represent the symbolic gesture that is involved in a carer (particularly a mother) voluntarily travelling away from caring responsibilities-here the mobile academic ideal directly collides with the ideal carer role (see also Henderson and Moreau 2020). Echoing P15's discursive construction, P11 stated that staying away for a conference 'feels like a much bigger deal'.…”

“…While university rankings and national research bodies are promoting the international mobility agenda (Lim and Williams Øerberg 2017), research on equality and diversity in the academic profession highlights the unequal challenges of engaging in a mobile academic career, particularly for women (Jöns 2011;Leemann 2010). This contemporary issue can be framed as two competing, incompatible imperatives: the mobility imperative and the equality or inclusion imperative (Henderson and Moreau 2020). While there is increasing awareness of the contributing effect of the mobility imperative on gendered inequalities in the academic profession at large (Blackmore 2014;Nielsen 2017), there is a missing link in current research on this topic.…”

Thoughtful gatherings: gendering conferences as spaces of learning, knowledge production and community

“…Several contributions to the special issue explore ways in which conferences can be experienced as exclusionary, both in terms of access to conference attendance, and access to a meaningful conference experience. These papers highlight the fact that the exclusionary nature of conferences means that learning opportunities at conferences are inaccessible and/or disrupted for many groups, including women and indigenous scholars (Timperley et al 2020), women and scholars from marginalised caste groups (Sabharwal, Henderson, and Joseph 2020), women and others who are targets of sexual harassment (Flores 2020), trans* scholars (Nicolazzo and Jourian 2020), academics with caring responsibilities (Henderson and Moreau 2020), accompanying (often women) partners of delegates (Yoo and Wilson 2020), and marginalised groups who embody the focus of the conference (e.g. sex workers in Barron 2020).…”

“…The 'missing delegates' phenomenon also leads to missing knowledge at conferences, as research on marginalised groups conducted by marginalised groups is, as a result of their absence from conferences, missing from the conference curriculum. 'Missing while present delegates' include conference organisers who engage in gendered care work at conferences at the expense of participating in knowledge production (Burford, Bosanquet, and Smith 2020), academics who manage caring responsibilities from a distance while at conferences (Henderson and Moreau 2020) and partners of conference delegates who are seldom recognised as knowledge producers in their own right (Yoo and Wilson 2020).…”