Professor Emerita Sandra Acker, The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender
SJE’s Professor Emerita Sandra Acker, together with Senior Researcher Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Tampere University, Finland, and Professor & Associate VP, Research, Michelle K. McGinn of Brock University recently edited a collection titled .
This book, published by Routledge in 2024, appears in sponsored by the , a major higher education society in the United Kingdom.
Fourteen chapters report empirical research from Canada, Finland, Sweden and the UK. Using a range of qualitative methods, authors consider the relationship of gender, regarded intersectionally, to research funding. They investigate experiences with research funding; the nature of institutional, funding body and country contexts; and the impact of social change and disruptions on research ecosystems and academic careers in the four countries. Nuanced accounts call attention to the social, emotional and political conditions within which research is produced, while identifying the ways academics enact, shape, negotiate and resist those conditions in their everyday practice.
On April 3, 2025, the editors reunited to present a seminar in LHAE’s Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education (CIHE) Speaker Series. The title was Secrecy, Silence and Satisfaction in the Scholarly Book Editing Process and they talked about what they had learned from their two years editing the Social Production book about working with contributors and the publisher, and the various traps that novice editors can fall into.
