A1 Journal article (refereed)
Visibilities and invisibilities in academic work and career building (2022)
Siekkinen, T., & Ylijoki, O.-H. (2022). Visibilities and invisibilities in academic work and career building. European Journal of Higher Education, 12(4), 351-355. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2021.2000460
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Siekkinen, Taru; Ylijoki, Oili-Helena
Journal or series: European Journal of Higher Education
ISSN: 2156-8235
eISSN: 2156-8243
Publication year: 2022
Publication date: 23/11/2021
Volume: 12
Issue number: 4
Pages range: 351-355
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2021.2000460
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/78779
Abstract
In the current turbulent higher education environment, academic work and career building are in a state of flux. The implementation of the principles of New Public Management have intensified managerial control over academic work. Growing dependence on external funding and metrics-based performance assessments have made career building increasingly competitive, selective, and risky. Disciplinary and organisational boundaries have been dissolving as interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral ways of collaboration have become policy priorities. These trends have challenged visible boundaries between disciplines, organisations, sectors, work tasks and academic roles. However, at the same time, new visible and invisible boundaries are being established. In spite of declaring to bring visibility, openness and transparency to academic work and career trajectories, the managerial university invokes new invisibilities which can reproduce some deeply-rooted visible hierarchies. This Special Issue explores the complex interplay between visibilities and invisibilities in academic work and career building. The six articles tackle this question from the perspective of interdisciplinary research, new notions of an ideal academic, resistance to managerial demands, doctoral education, the emergence of invisible researchers, and scholarly profession in different sectors.
Keywords: researchers; career; career development; institutions of higher education; university-educated labour; identity (mental objects); leadership (activity); power structures; organisational structure; multidisciplinary research
Free keywords: academic work; career building; identity; power relations; boundaries
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Reporting Year: 2022
JUFO rating: 1
