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The talk - based on the volume ‘Gender and Precarious Careers in Research. A Comparative Analysis' - aims to analyse how the principal transformations of the higher education sector, including globalisation, marketisation and neoliberalism, are affecting the relationships between gender inequalities and precariousness among early-career researchers in the Global North. In an attempt to discuss different perspectives on academic careers, the dynamics distinguishing three different levels of analysis will be examined, focusing on institutional, organisational, and subjective levels. Particular attention is paid to the general process of precarisation within higher education, and its connections with gender differences in academia. In the conclusion, the need to develop alternative policies and practices is discussed, with the aim to resist and challenge the rules of neoliberal academia and to counter the reproduction of gender inequalities.
Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan, where she is also the Scientific Coordinator of the research centre GENDERS. Prior to this, she was Associate Professor at the Work and Employment Relations Division of the Leeds University Business School (2017-2018), where she is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow.
Annalisa is the PI of the PRIN project 'Migrant Digital Work' (2023-2025) and of the ERC project SHARE – ‘Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Representing self-Employment’ (2017-2024). In 2014-2016, she was - together with Barbara Poggio - the Scientific coordinator of the European FP7 project GARCIA – ‘Gendering the Academy and Research: Combating career Instability and Asymmetries’ at the University of Trento. In 2012-2013, she worked at the Université de Louvain (UCL) with a Marie Skłodowska Curie Incoming Fellowship.
Her main research interests lie in sociological qualitative and ethnographic studies. In particular, the lines of research around which her current scientific production is articulated focus on precariousness and its implications for workers’ agency, emerging forms of collective organising, and the social construction of gender in organisations. Annalisa is part of AcademiaNet, the Expert Database of Outstanding Women Academics. She serves as Associate Editor for the journals ‘Organization’ and ‘Studi Organizzativi’.
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