{"title":"The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch academia","authors":"Luana Russo, Danai Petropoulou Ionescu","doi":"10.47989/kpdc491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc491","url":null,"abstract":"Gender disparities in academia are pervasive. From the well-known ‘leaky pipeline’ phenomenon, which demonstrated the progressive decrease of women academics from occupying senior scientific positions, to the gender pay gap, women in academia do not enjoy a level playing field. Across the world, women have a harder time climbing the academic ladder, due, in part, to policies that discriminate towards people with caring responsibilities (most of whom, albeit not all, are women), general gender-based biases, or a substantial gender pay gap. An additional yet important aspect of the evident gender disparities in academia can be attributed to the engagement of what is commonly known as citizenship behaviours, such as taking part in academic committees or mentoring colleagues. Studies have shown that women engage in such activities at a higher rate than their male counterparts, leaving less time for research and, ergo, widening the academic gender gap in the long term. Based on findings from a study conducted at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, this essay aims to highlight the gender disparities in academic citizenship behaviours and suggests that more attention should be paid to the distribution of service work at the department, faculty, and university levels, with a specific focus on gender equity. The overall aim here is to provide a reflection on how structural and cultural discrimination in the internal society of universities can affect why, how, and to what extent academics engage with citizenship behaviours, and propose an approach to study the gendered dimension of academic service work.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"29 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140265279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For a nomad ontology against academic citizenship","authors":"Andrew Gibson","doi":"10.47989/kpdc500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc500","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues against the apparently benign concept of ‘academic citizenship,’ drawing on resources and conceptual precedents from within higher education generally and philosophy specifically. It does so not only in order to offer a critique, however. By considering the directions from which criticism can be levelled at the notion of ‘citizenship’, and the State-centric conceptualisation of the university underlying it, an argument for an alternative conceptualisation of academic being is offered. Ontology is suggested as a suitable route to dealing with the urgency of the questions confronting those inhabiting contemporary higher education. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, along with Isabelle Stengers, it proposes a ‘nomad ontology’ as both a form of analysis and possible mode of being for academics.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140263535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic citizenship manifesto","authors":"The Maastricht, Young Academy, Christoph Rausch","doi":"10.47989/kpdc490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc490","url":null,"abstract":"Not applicable","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"26 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140265314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For one and all: Being an academic citizen on an interconnected Earth","authors":"Ronald Barnett","doi":"10.47989/kpdc505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc505","url":null,"abstract":"The idea of citizen implies a polis, a collectivity of persons contributing their voices and actions to the good running of the community. In uttering and acting as citizens, both the public realm and a public is formed. The university as an institution and its educational processes are doubly implicated here. First, issues arise as to the extent to which the university is itself a kind of public, modelling the public realm, and founded on critical dialogue among equals. Second, issues arise as to the extent to which the university might be able and willing to advance this public realm. These issues generate two questions: what does academic citizenship mean? And, what if potential members of the public are voiceless? I answer these two questions together. Being an academic citizen is a matter of an ever-widening sphere in which this citizenship is located. This entails successively reaching out from one’s discipline and one’s students, to the world, and to the Earth. The pool in which academic citizenship is enacted is all the time widening, to those who lie beyond the current boundaries of the university, and all the inhabitants of Nature. Ultimately, to be an academic citizen is to be for one and all across this whole Earth.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"22 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140264311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming research (work) with affect","authors":"Tiina Suopajärvi","doi":"10.47989/kpdc517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":" 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139627487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An 'Editorial from the field': Conceptually navigating language, policy, practice—and the potential for change","authors":"David Hoffman, Sara Soltani, Martina Lazarevska","doi":"10.47989/kpdc555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc555","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":" 85","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139628283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doctoral researchers as change agents of higher education: An autoethnographic account","authors":"Melina Aarnikoivu","doi":"10.47989/kpdc529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc529","url":null,"abstract":"Doctoral researchers are often assumed to be the academic actors with the least agency due to rigid academic hierarchies. In doctoral education scholarship, it has not been extensively discussed how doctoral researchers deploy their agency beyond their own research projects or how they might even play a pivotal role in shaping their institutions. By drawing on the concept of a tempered radical, in these Notes from the field, I provide a reflexive account of actions I took as a doctoral researcher to create change within doctoral education: searching for allies, focusing on positive deviance, and accepting slow, incremental change. With this analysis and by offering some considerations for practice, I argue that doctoral researchers should be encouraged to see themselves as agentive and take opportunities—even risks—to affect the settings they work in and academia in general.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":" 66","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139627874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deliberative leadership: Sustainable practices for public universities?","authors":"C. Sugrue, Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke","doi":"10.47989/kpdc422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc422","url":null,"abstract":"The higher education landscape is experiencing a period of serious uncertainty, an interregnum wherein there is considerable disagreement as to its orientation and sustainability. Some suggest that ongoing incremental adaptability is sufficient, while others insist nothing short of radical transformation will suffice. These disagreements are reflected in competing, and conflicting, discourses on leadership, into which we posit the potential of deliberative leadership, not as a silver bullet, but a work in progress; a reconsideration of the public good mandate of higher education, recognising that what counts as ‘public’ or ‘good’ is increasingly contested. Using data from a larger study on formation in higher education, we describe deliberative leadership, its characteristics, and underpinning values. We provide empirical evidence from one institution as to how deliberative attitude and deliberative communication, when combined and stretched over an organisation. In doing so, they create conditions where, through horizontal and vertical brokering, individual webs of commitments are acknowledged, yet legitimate compromises are forged without compromising on values. This paper commends the quiet resolute melody of deliberative leadership to readers, recognising that the case made here is advanced on evidence from one institution, yet recognising its potential contribution to forging a more sustainable deliberative leadership praxis.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"121 49","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139135113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Case Study of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts in Hiring Practices","authors":"Sherri Castillo, Kris Powledge Gaddy, Paulina Reyes","doi":"10.47989/kpdc333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc333","url":null,"abstract":"The push to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion into higher education spaces has changed hiring practices for universities. The team of HR professionals at a large flagship university in the United States developed a plan to help hiring managers increase diversity and equity during the job life cycle. An evaluation of the intervention includes interviews with both hiring managers and those hired in the last year. Findings include concerns about shrinking applicant pools, a lack of equity in job expectations and salaries, and the need for additional professional development opportunities.","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"131 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138953580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Praxis perspectives on doctoral supervision from across disciplines","authors":"Rebecca Rouse, Andreas Kalckert, Kathleen Mahon","doi":"10.47989/kpdc528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/kpdc528","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial","PeriodicalId":413842,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Praxis in Higher Education","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122942712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}