European academics have been at the centre of ongoing higher education reforms, as
changes in university governance and funding have led to changes in academic work and …

This is the third and last volume of a series presenting the results of a European comparative
research project analysing changes of the academic profession in Europe (EuroAC). The …

This book is the first of several with the results of a collaborative European project supported
by the European Science Foundation on changes in the academic profession in Europe …

Scope of the series As the landscape of higher education has in recent years undergone
significant changes, so correspondingly have the backgrounds, specializations …

This book presents the analysis of the representative survey about the academic profession
in twelve European countries. Higher education in Europe has experienced a substantial …

Working Paper 43, authored by Dr Giulio Marini, Professor William Locke and Dr Celia
Whitchurch, reviews the literature on the academic workforce, undertaking an in-depth …

Despite the tendency to create a European Higher Education and Research area, academic
systems are still quite different across Europe. We selected five countries (Finland, Germany …

The academic profession is internally divided as never before. This cross‐national
comparative analysis of stratification in Higher Education is based on a sample of European …

Different factors push for the inscription of the sociology of academic work on the research
agenda. A first one stems from the fact it is still a relatively under-covered perspective in the …

The patterns of academic careers in European universities have changed dramatically as a
consequence of wider transformations of higher education in the last two decades. The aim …