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Michelle Share; Andrew Loxley – Irish Educational Studies, 2025
In an Irish Higher Education (HE) context the careers of postdoctoral researchers (PDRs) have received little research attention. Within the international HE policy context they are positioned as important contributors to Higher Education Institutions' (HEIs) mission to be engines of the 'knowledge economy'. Yet, despite their importance to HEIs,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Careers, Colleges
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Brantly E. McCord; Marisa E. Exter – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Objectives: Game development students have a daunting career ahead of them, complicated by competitive industry hiring, the passion behind digital media and entertainment work, and inequitable work cultures. By understanding the work-life experiences of graduated game development students in digital media careers, higher education curriculum can…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Family Work Relationship, Games, Skill Development
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Bhangal, Naseeb K.; Ema, Tasnim A. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
This article seeks to decentre the Global North knowledge production about 'work-life balance' (WLB) in academia by applying a temporal gaze to illuminate WLB possibilities in Bangladeshi academia where institutional WLB policies are absent. Drawing on Adam's (2008) timescapes and Flaherty's (2002) time work concepts, we focus on Bangladeshi women…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Women Faculty, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty
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Viviana Ramírez; Leandro Rodriguez-Medina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
While internationalising scholarly careers is an imperative in current academia, literature has focused on the impact of such a process at the institutional, national, and international levels. Yet, internationalisation is connected to the personal dimension of careers and, consequently, it might defy academics' understanding of their working…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, College Faculty, Family Work Relationship, Mexicans
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Elaine Stratford; Phillipa Watson; Brett Paull – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Early career academics face a rapidly changing higher education sector and too little is known about what helps them flourish in the profession. This paper responds to that gap by reporting research undertaken in a single or intrinsic case study of one Australian university. We invited participation from a full cohort of 1019 academics in one…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Family Work Relationship, Barriers
Nancy R. Robles – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although women have surpassed men in obtaining advanced degrees at all levels they continue to be underrepresented in the highest-level positions across industries. Gender has placed women at a professional disadvantage and adding the intersectionality of racial and ethnic identity along with other identities has resulted in fewer opportunities…
Descriptors: Leaders, Females, Minority Groups, Race
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Lekchiri, Siham; Kamm, Jesse D. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2020
Purpose: This investigation examined the challenges faced by women in leadership positions in the US construction industry. The overall purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the challenges, and identify suitable practices, strategies and suggestions to support the employment and retention of women in the US construction…
Descriptors: Barriers, Women Administrators, Construction Industry, Gender Bias
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Sara Bano; Yilun Jiang; Yulu Hou – Commission for International Adult Education, 2024
This paper presents insights from a broader study on doctoral students' educational and professional trajectories, with a particular focus on female international doctoral students in the United States. It explores how these women navigate their career paths while balancing the dual responsibilities of academic demands and motherhood. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Learning Trajectories, Education Work Relationship, Work Environment
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Zink, Holly R.; Hughes, Dorothy; Vanderford, Nathan L. – Journal of Research Administration, 2022
The research administration profession is in a time of significant change. The traditional jack-of-all-trades role has become more fragmented into specialized advanced roles, with a more recent focus on research development. Workflows are increasingly becoming more electronically automated. The introduction of graduate degrees and professional…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Work Environment, Administrator Attitudes, Family Work Relationship
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Horta, Hugo; Tang, Li – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
This article explores the experiences of male and female academics in China's higher education system concerning career progression and examines how they perceive the challenges faced by the opposite gender. Our analysis of interviews with 40 academics from a research university revealed that academics' experience of career progression is informed…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Faculty, Career Development, Work Environment
Deaver, Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In comparison to men, the high school principal role in Texas is a position that few women obtain in their educational leadership journey. Even though women are statistically more prominently employed as teachers in K-12 public education in Texas, women are not equally represented in the superintendency. This disparity of representation starts at…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Females, Women Administrators, Superintendents
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Coleman, Marianne – Irish Educational Studies, 2020
Questions of gender equality pervade our culture, particularly in the world of work, where about three quarters of leaders are men. This paper draws on 60 interviews with women in the UK, in senior leadership roles, in a variety of fields. The research questions address the interviewees' perceptions of three areas: career challenges (or barriers)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Administrators, Leadership, Sex Fairness
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Wong, Shui-wai – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
A new working model -- having multiple careers during the same time period (slash careers) -- is emerging despite the lack of official statistics. A slash worker in Hong Kong was interviewed based on Savickas's Career Construction Interview procedure and three life themes were identified. The life themes are interconnected and provide meaningful…
Descriptors: Career Change, Models, Employee Attitudes, Career Choice
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Pietilä, Maria – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Research has shown that a tenure track incorporates both commitment and control aspects: the career system offers junior-level academics long-term job prospects, but subjects them to performance control. This study complements existing research on tenure track positions, which has mostly been conducted in northern America. Universities in Finland…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Universities, Faculty Promotion
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Lörz, Markus; Mühleck, Kai – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
In the last decades, a vast number of post-industrialised economies have experienced a growing participation of women in higher education. However, men and women still differ with regard to their subsequent academic careers and labour market prospects. While several studies have disentangled the cumulative process of gender inequalities along the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Higher Education, Postdoctoral Education, Career Development
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