Academics sign up to the concept of promoting excellence in research by valuing
'objectivity', independence, theoretical frameworks and an evidence base, even while we …

Academic excellence is allegedly a universal and gender neutral standard of merit. This
article examines exactly what is constructed as academic excellence at the micro-level, how …

The aim of this study is to build a theoretical framework to understand how gendered
networking practices produce or counter inequalities in organizations. We introduce a …

Research related to the position, status and experience of women academics has
increasingly attracted the attention of scholars in recent decades. Despite the increase in the …

The underrepresentation of women in the most senior ranks, and senior leadership positions
in the academy, is a global phenomenon. How and why women academics experience the …

This paper investigates how the recruitment and selection for project-based postdoc
positions are organised in the current academic landscape characterised by increasing …

This article explores the role of senior managers in consolidating and interpreting new
managerialism in higher education in Australia, South Africa and Portugal, and perceptions …

New Public Management reforms have fostered universities to focus on performance and
competition which has resulted in different pressures to perform and disruption of strong …

This book opens the black box of professorial recruitments and selection practices in the
Netherlands, and unmasks some persistent myths to explain away the under-representation …

This paper draws from our own experiences of sexism within Business Schools to bring
attention to the effects of the operation of a highly masculinized, white, cis‐gendered, and …