The circumstances during the COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted research activities,
but did not affect all academics equally. Understanding which academics were susceptible …

Background Despite the significant role of scientific knowledge pertaining to public health,
the discipline of public health remained outside the centre stage within the pandemic …

Women in higher education face unique challenges. The findings of this qualitative study,
which explored and described how personal resources contribute to women academics' …

This study focuses on the predictors of women academics' perceived research productivity
during the pandemic in Türkiye, by taking the changes in paid and unpaid workload …

Higher education can be stressful and may have specific stress-related pressures.
Academics are, according to some researchers, not able to realize their full potential as they …

In this research article, we examine why so few of the most promising young scientists in
South Africa, those who obtain a P or'prestigious' rating from the South African National …

It has become increasingly apparent that the knowledge generated by academics and their
interactions with actors from society, the so-called third mission, are indispensable drivers of …

Following the general introduction to this volume in Chapter 1, this chapter reviews a
selection of what is known about the intersection of research funding and gender. Literature …

In a companion study on young scientists (including social sciences and humanities
scholars) with a rating from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), we …

In South Africa, Women's Month is celebrated in August, with National Women's Day
observed on August 9th to honour the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the …