Social Production of Research

Sandra Acker is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Canada.Oili-Helena Ylijoki is Senior Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland.Michelle K. McGinn is Professor and Acting Vice-President, Research at Brock University, Canada.

'This insightful book offers a critical multi-level account of the institutional complexity of ever-changing research funding conditions across Canada, Finland, Sweden and the UK. The work provides a fresh look at the gendered repercussions of external research funding imperatives and thus is a must-read for higher education policymakers, managers and researchers alike.'– Liudvika Leišytė, Professor of Higher Education, TU Dortmund University, Germany'Shines a powerful light on unexamined gender dynamics of who – and what – secures research funding and how this contours academic lives and careers. Essential reading for everyone invested in understanding inequalities in knowledge production and how such inequalities can be challenged.'– Dr Maddie Breeze, University of Stirling, UK'In an era marked by a global competition based on publications and growing concerns for equity, diversity and inclusion, a nuanced and detailed exploration of the links between research funding and gender is more than necessary. Drawing on a diversity of qualitative approaches, these 23 respected scholars with varied expertise and experiences have produced an insightful comparative work structured around compelling themes such as stability and change, care and conflict, and funding and defunding. I strongly recommend The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender to all current academics, future academics, and reflective practitioners, whether they work in granting agencies, government, higher education institutions or unions.'– Dr Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Université de Montréal, Canada'Acquiring competitive research funding is a must in today’s hypercompetitive academia. The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender explores the deeply gendered dynamics and experiences of that endeavour. This insightful book should be on the reading list of all higher education scholars and leaders.'– Terhi Nokkala, Senior Researcher, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, Finland'This book provides a broad and up-to-date account of gender and research funding by drawing attention to the gendered dimensions of the neoliberal research funding context. The use of qualitative methods makes it an important complement to existing bibliometric studies on the connection of gender and funding.'– Charlotte Silander, Linnaeus University, Sweden

• Introduction1. Editors’ introduction Sandra Acker, Oili-Helena Ylijoki & Michelle K. McGinn2. Research funding and gender: insights from the literature Sandra AckerPart one: stability and change3. Here today, gone tomorrow: the vicissitudes of funding in gendered higher education contexts – a view from Sweden Gabriele Griffin4. Discourses of university research in precarious times: a spatial/temporal analysis from the United Kingdom Barbara Read & Carole Leathwood5. Gender inequalities, research funding and organisational practices: academic mothers in Finnish universities Marja Vehviläinen, Hanna-Mari Ikonen & Päivi Korvajärvi6. Casting a long shadow: COVID-19 and female academics’ research productivity in the United Kingdom Kate Carruthers ThomasPart two: care and conflict 7. Funding journeys in health technology in Finland: the atypical stories of Sara and Heidi Oili-Helena Ylijoki8. Caring about research: gender, research funding and labour in the Canadian academy Marie A. Vander Kloet & Caitlin Campisi9. The gendered affective economy of funding: conflicting realities of university leaders and researchers in Finnish academia Johanna Hokka, Elisa Kurtti, Pia Olsson, & Tiina Suopajärvi10. Black women academics, research funding and institutional misogynoir in the United Kingdom Shirley Anne TatePart three: funding and defunding11. Status hierarchies, gender bias and disrespect: ethnographic observations of Swedish Research Council review panels Lambros Roumbanis12. Tracing excellence and equity in research funding: policy change in the Canada Research Chairs Program Merli Tamtik & Dawn Sutherland13. Women academics under RAE and REF: the changing research funding policy landscape in the United Kingdom Lisa Lucas14. Research funding organisations as change agents for gender equality: policies, practices and paradoxes in Sweden Liisa Husu & Helen PetersonIndex