Academic Excellence and Gender Bias in the Practices and Perceptions of Scientists in Leadership and Decision-making Positions

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F17%3A00485823" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/17:00485823 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/25706578.2017.18.1.349" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/25706578.2017.18.1.349</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/25706578.2017.18.1.349" target="_blank" >10.13060/25706578.2017.18.1.349</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Academic Excellence and Gender Bias in the Practices and Perceptions of Scientists in Leadership and Decision-making Positions

Original language description

How to assess quality has become one of the central concerns for contemporary research, not least because of the proliferation of research assessment systems around the globe. Concomitant with this has been the growing attention to factors that compromise the credibility of assessment, especially gender, ethnic, racial and geopolitical bias. In this paper I analyse how lab leaders and research managers in the natural sciences specifically construct excellence and relatedly the demands of the research profession, and how gender bias plays out in these imaginaries. The material for the study comes primarily from two highly successful public research institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and specifically from individual and group interviews with lab leaders and research managers on topics of research governance, assessment, and quality. The focus is on the natural sciences because the discipline has driven the introduction of research assessment in the country as well as research and innovation reforms more broadly since the new millennium. Building on the distinction between the logic of choice and the logic of care developed by Annemarie Mol (2008), I explore the limits of individual choice for conceiving excellence and the gendered outcomes it produces.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/LE14016" target="_blank" >LE14016: Strengthening the European dimension of Czech research through the representation of the CR in expert groups of the European Research Area, and through the cultural transformation of the research organization in terms of gender equality</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research

ISSN

2570-6578

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

42-66

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85033467025