EGOS Women's Network Meeting 2016
prior to the 32nd EGOS Colloquium in Naples, Italy
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 15:0017:00
Location: University of Naples Federico II, Monte S. Angelo campus, room B1
prior to the 32nd EGOS Colloquium in Naples, Italy
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 15:0017:00
Location: University of Naples Federico II, Monte S. Angelo campus, room B1
Coffee and tea will be available from 15:00 onwards.
At 15:30, four parallel Round Table sessions will start. Detailed descriptions of each Round Table can be found below.
On behalf of the EGOS Women's Network, EGOS SWG 04 "Gender and Diversity" & the EGOS Board
Regine Bendl, Inge Bleijenbergh, Christine Teelken & Katharina Chudzikowski
Chairs: Inge van der Weijden (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) & Christine Teelken (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
While post-doctoral researchers (postdocs) are an increasingly important and productive group of employees in academia, they
are lacking a further career perspective and embeddedness within their organization. Guidance and support are crucial but
often weakly organized and not systematically sustained by their employing organization.
A comparative study amongst two Dutch universities (a survey with both closed and open questions amongst 225 respondents),
reveals that nearly all post-docs (85%) want to stay in academics, but only less then 3% was offered a tenure track. Another
survey amongst the medical faculties will be finished soon. We also conducted interviews amongst the postdocs and their supervisors.
Given these limited career perspectives, we would like to invite EGOS scholars to discuss the following questions in our interactive
session:
Chair: Regine Bendl (WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
‘Originality’, ‘relevance’,’ rigor’, ‘clarity’, ‘logical progression of argument’, ‘readability’, ‘theoretical and practical implications’, ‘generalizibility’, ‘credibility’ – amongst many others, these are notions with which authors are confronted with when receiving feedback from journal editors. However:
In this interactive Round Table session the participants will reflect on these and other questions based on their own experiences
and knowledge about the publishing process. This session is an invitation for scholars to exchange their publishing experiences
for succeeding in academic publishing.
Chair: Inge Bleijenbergh (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Academic research increasingly depends on acquiring (international) research funds. However, writing successful grant applications
is a particular skill that calls for both careful reading of calls and careful wording of application texts. Moreover, the
international funding landscape changes continuously which makes it difficult to oversee your opportunities.
This Round Table focuses on exchanging knowledge and experiences about getting EU-funded projects. We will focus upon using
your own research interests and academic networks for preparing a grant application rather than upon technical instructions
to fit the bureaucratic criteria. You are actively encouraged to bring in examples from your own experiences.
Chair: Svenja Tams (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
This Round Table explores the motives, contradictions and practices of working for social change from within the context of an academic career. It builds on an understanding that working for social change is situated within a context of competing discourses and practices. Working for social change from within an academic career is often associated with the identity of a ‘tempered radical’ (Meyerson & Scully, 1995), as it creates particular opportunities in relations to powerful institutions, but is also fraught with tensions, contradictions and enduring paradoxes. The latter result from strong external pressures and also personal aspirations to legitimize work in terms of the dominant discourses of higher education and business schools. The Round Table will explore questions such as:
Round Table D invites participants to engage creatively with their everyday practice. Drawing on their personal experiences,
participants will be invited to express and learn from each other’s practical and discursive approaches to positioning their
work for social change within an academic career.