Science and research are increasingly becoming subject to managerial visions and procedures. Building on an international research project Knowledge, institutions and gender: an East–West comparative study (FP 6, 2006–2008, EC) this project aims to explore the ways in which policy rules are performative for everyday research (and educational) realities, and the ways in which institutions and researchers negotiate their social and epistemic space vis-à-vis those rules – thus translating, using and subverting them. We concentrate on two areas: growing into science by junior (PhD and postdoctoral) researchers, and research assessment and accountability. We pay special attention to differences between disciplines and organisational contexts of these processes. We use qualitative ethnographic data generated within the Knowledge, institutions and gender project and carry out additional focus group and individual interviews, and the study of documents.
Publikace vydané v rámci projektu (celkem 5, zobrazeno 1 - 5)
The goal of this chapter is to introduce the basic methodological approaches used in the research (science and technology studies, gender studies), research methods and the basic parameters of the Czech R&D transformation and science policy. The chapter continues to introduce the research institutions in which the research was carried out, and the structure of the book.
The chapter concentrates on how researchers in a natural science institution define success. It analyses differences in their notions of success depending on their position. The author argues that the normativity of excellence has an impact on which notion of success leads to visible career progress and that such a notion is not interesting or acceptable for some.
It is a concluding chapter of the book which compares the social science and natural science institutions under study regarding four themes: the degree and modes of competitiveness, publication infrastructure and strategies, epistemic texture of the institutions and enactment of gender.
In recent decades, research has undergone major changes, resulting in radical shifts in patterns of governance. In this process, external forms of research assessment have developed as a proxy for researchers’ and research institutions’ accountability to society. In this paper we focus on the developments of research assessment in the Czech Republic.
The goal of this chapter is to introduce the basic methodological approaches used in the research (science and technology studies, gender studies), research methods and the basic parameters of the Czech R&D transformation and science policy. The chapter continues to introduce the research institutions in which the research was carried out, and the structure of the book.
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