Ombuds on a Glass Cliff: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Czech Higher Education
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98941-4_9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98941-4_9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98941-4_9" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-98941-4_9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ombuds on a Glass Cliff: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Czech Higher Education
Original language description
Gender-based violence, including sexual harassment and social safety more broadly, has garnered increased attention in Czech higher education in the last 5 years. One of the main changes this has generated is the establishment of the ombuds position at Czech higher education institutions. In this chapter, we examine the reasons for the creation of this position, the structural positions ombuds occupy, the structural conditions in which they operate, and the types of service they are expected to deliver. Our analysis is based on a focus group with ombuds, several of whom are the founding members of the recently established School Ombuds Platform. We argue that the ombuds appear to be positioned on a glass cliff, dealing with crises primarily to ensure the reputational integrity of Czech higher education institutions. We interrogate this recent development in relation to neoliberal performativity and the ability to enact institutional change to address gender-based violence in academia.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/MS2103" target="_blank" >MS2103: Intensification of integration of research and innovation ecosystem of the Czech republic into the ERA and support of an intensive international collaboration of the Czech research organisations and companies in research, development and innovation</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Gender and Higher Education Management in Times of Crisis
ISBN
978-3-031-98940-7
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
199-223
Number of pages of the book
335
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
001673229500010