Föreläsningar och seminarier Junior Faculty Equality Seminar Series

2021-10-29 10:00 Add to iCal
Online Online via Zoom (link sent out day before via email)

Welcome to the Junior Faculty Equality Focus Group Seminar Series at the Karolinska Institutet. We are pleased to be joined by Sara Kalm from Lund University, who researches international migration, international institutions, and social movements, and has written and spoken on academic housekeeping.

Academic housekeeping denotes the type of work tasks within university departments that are low-status, time-consuming, largely invisible, and that nevertheless need to be done.


Research has revealed that women carry out a disproportionate share of academic housekeeping tasks. This pattern is attributable to a complex set of factors, among them ”publish or perish”-related competitive academic culture, researcher ideals, and gender norms.


Academic housekeeping chores may partially account for women’s difficulties in advancing within academia, and therefore need to be taken seriously in research as well as in academic leadership.
This seminar treats academic housekeeping in a mainly Swedish context, which has been overlooked in research.
 

The aim is to specify the meaning of the concept, to describe the gendered aspects of how academic housekeeping tasks are distributed, and to discuss possible explanations for the identified pattern.

Register here: https://survey.ki.se/jfequalityfgseminar_oct29 
or visit the Junior Faculty website at KI staff portal to find the registration link

Seminar with Dr. Sara Kalm, PhD Lund University

Kontakt

Alexandra Wennberg Postdoktor