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Inquiring into Academic Timescapes

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Inquiring into Academic Timescapes

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Filip Vostal

Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies (CSTSS),

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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Contents

About the Authors

Barbara Adam is an Emerita Professor at Cardiff and Affiliate Scholar at IASS Potsdam. Social time is her primary intellectual project, resulting in five research monographs and a large number of articles. This focus produced a unique social theory, whose relevance transcends disciplines and is taught across the arts, humanities as well as the social and environmental sciences. She is Founding Editor of the journal Time & Society.

Michel Alhadeff-Jones is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University (USA), and the Executive Director of the Sunkhronos Institute (Switzerland). His current research focuses on rhythmanalysis, biographical approaches, and the temporalities of transformative and developmental processes.

Emilia Araújo, University of Minho and CECS, Portugal. Her research interests are time, science, and gender. She has participated in several research projects about gender and academic times. Some of her publications include the co-authorship in the chapter “The Place for Gender Research in Contemporary Portuguese Science and Higher Education Policies within the Context of Neo-liberalism,” In Heike Kahlert (Ed.) (2018) Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance. Global Challenges, Glocal Dynamics, and Local Impacts (pp. 107–128) Wiesbaden: Springer VS; “The Future Is but a Word,” Temporalités, 28 (2019); “A Positive Perspective to Implementation of a Gender Equality Plan: A Question of Design, Time and Participation,” In Proceedings – Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE (2018); and “Unfolding Various Academic Mobility Experiences of Southeast Asian Women,” Gender, Place & Culture, 24 (2017).

Isabel Burner-Fritsch is currently doing qualitative research in a study about internet-based real-time monitoring of palliative care needs at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine, Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich. Before that, she finished her Master’s degree in Sociology, with a special focus on a migration and refugee studies.

Petya Burneva is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. She is an organizational theory scholar investigating insecurity and temporality.

Teresa Carvalho is an associate professor, director of the PhD program in Public Policies and member of the board of the research center CIPES (Center for Research in Higher Education Policies) in the University of Aveiro. She is a member of the executive committee of the ESA - European Sociological Association since 2016. She has experience in research academic profession and in gender in higher education. She has been participating in two international projects on academic profession – CAP (Changes in Academic Profession) and APIKS (Academic Profession in Knowledge-Based Societies), being the coordinator of the Portuguese team in this last one. She has published her work in these areas in edited books in Springer, Palgrave and Emerald and in international journals such as Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Higher Education Quarterly, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, Studies in Higher Education and Leadership, among others.

Kadydja Chagas, Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. She holds a post-doc in Sociology. Her main research interests are education, inequality, and post-graduation. Among other, she is co-author for the chapter “The Era of Hyperconnectivity: Investigating the Times for PhD Supervision,” In (2019) Managing Screen Time in an Online Society, IGI Global.

Fadia Dakka is a Senior Research Fellow in Education and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Practice in Education at Birmingham City University, UK. Her current research interests include rhythmanalysis, critique of the university everyday life, and universities futures.

Sarah de Rijcke is a Professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies and Scientific Director at the Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University. She specializes in social studies of research evaluation, which she considers in relation to epistemic cultures, knowledge infrastructures, evaluation processes, and roles of research in and for society.

Sara Diogo is an invited assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and a Post-Doc Researcher at GOVCOPP - Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies Unit. She is also a Researcher at CIPES - Research Centre on Higher Education Policies. She did a joint-PhD in the University of Aveiro and in the Finnish Institute for Educational Research at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, comparing policy changes in Portuguese and Finnish higher education systems. Her research interests focus on comparative higher education research, internationalisation, gender and international cooperation for development. She has published book chapters in Springer and Palgrave editors, and articles in international journals such as Higher Education, Higher Education Quarterly, Higher Education Management and Policy Journal, European Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, Working Papers in Higher Education Studies, Education Sciences, etc.

Ulrike Felt is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies as well as of the interfaculty research platform “Responsible research and innovation in academic practice.” Her research centers on two wider areas: changing academic research cultures and issues related to governance, democracy, and public engagement around technoscientific developments. Across both areas she is specifically interested in the role of temporalities, valuation practices as well as, more recently, in the changes due to the growing importance of digital practices. She is mainly working with qualitative methods and actively engages in developing more participatory and inclusive methodological approaches to specific matters of concern. From 2002 to 2007, she has been the Editor of the journal Science, Technology and Human Values. Her most recent books include the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (2017, MIT Press) and Exploring Science Communication. A Science and Technology Studies Approach (2020, SAGE) with Sarah Davies. Since 2017, she has been the President of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. She is elected member of the Academia Europaea since 2019.

Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner is a Researcher at the Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University. He studies the epistemic and practical effects of new forms of governing academic knowledge production, including the proliferation of research evaluation practices, novel modes of funding scientific work, and the development of digital research infrastructures.

Gonzalo Iparraguirre is an Anthropologist. He is the Secretary of Development at Tornquist Municipality, Argentine, and contributes to postgraduate research at University of Buenos Aires and National University of South. His research focuses on time, temporality, development, and rhythms of life. He published two books and more than twenty scientific papers.

Lai Ma is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests include information, scholarly communication, and research evaluation.

Alexander Mitterle is a Research Associate at the Institute for Sociology and the Center for School and Educational Research at the Martin Luther University and was member of the DFG-Research Unit “mechanism of elite formation in the German educational system.” He has worked and published on various aspects of higher education including internationalization, admission, private higher education, teaching structure and time as well as the governmentality of real-socialist higher education.

Ruth Müller is an Associate Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, a co-appointment with the School of Management and School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich. She holds an MSc in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Science and Technology Studies. Her research explores the nexus of science, society, and policy, focusing specifically on the interactions between research governance and knowledge production and on the social and political dimensions of life science and biomedical research. Across all her research activities, she considers and foregrounds questions of social justice and equity with regard to the practices, institutions, and implications of science and technology.

Catarina Sales Oliveira, University of Beira Interior and CIES_ISCTE, Portugal. She is the President of UBI University Equality Commission (CI-UBI). Her research interests are gender and citizenship, mobility, identity, and participation. She has several articles published in national and international journals on the theme of gender and academy. Her more recent publications include the co-authorship in the chapter “The Place for Gender Research in Contemporary Portuguese Science and Higher Education Policies within the Context of Neo-liberalism,” In Heike Kahlert (Ed.) (2018) Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance. Global Challenges, Glocal Dynamics, and Local Impacts (pp. 107–128) Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Maggie O’Neill is Professor and Head of the Dept of Sociology & Criminology at University College Cork. Committed to the importance and future of the public university, education as a public good, critical, creative pedagogy and ‘unmanaging’. Her recent books include: Imaginative Criminology: of spaces past present and future. Bristol: Policy Press, with Lizzie Seal and Walking Methods: Research on the Move. London: Routledge with Brian Roberts.

Liliana Castañeda-Rentería, Universidad de Guadalajara, México. She is interested mainly on the themes of gender and inequality. Her latest publications include Mujeres en las Universidades Iberoamericana: la búsqueda de la necesaria conciliación trabajo-familia,” published by the University of Guadalajara in coedition by Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (OUI). La resignificación de la maternidad en mujeres profesionistas en Guadalajara,” México, in the Journal Anthropológica, 37, 43.

Katrina H. Roszynski currently works and lives in Hong Kong having moved there after graduating from her PhD in 2019. An avid reader of literature from far and wide, she was never going to be interested in being confined to exploring her ideas in any one format. Thus, her future in academia, as for many others, is unclear but writing that treads the line between fiction and non-fiction has unleashed a world of possibilities’.

Jirka Skála is a Visual Artist. His artistic work experience stems from the traditions of post-conceptual and participatory art and an interest in the textual medium, scene-based reading, photography, and videos. In the majority of his projects, he focuses on the topics of paid work, unpaid work, recreation, and free-time.

Filip Vostal works as an Associate Reseacher at the Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of Accelerating Academia: Changing Structure of Academic Time (2016, Palgrave) and wrote a number of articles investigating time in/of science and academia. He currently examines productive dimensions of speed, namely temporal (and visual) aspects of knowledge production in photonics (specificially experiments using x-ray free electron lasers) and molecular biophysics. He teaches STS courses at Charles University.

Phil Wood is a Reader in Education and Leader of the doctoral programmes at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. His main research interests focus on the nature of change.

Joan Woodhouse is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Leicester. She is a Postgraduate Tutor and has a keen interest in developing researchers and writers.

Oili-Helena Ylijoki is the Research Director of Center for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies TaSTI, Docent of Social Psychology, Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests cover higher education studies, science studies, and time studies. She has investigated academic temporalities, identities and careers, disciplinary cultures, transformations of knowledge production, and gender and science.