Gender and career in academia
As part of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee meeting at UiT
The presentation takes its starting point in the question: Why are we still seeing less than a quarter of female professors despite women make up half of students in most of social science? It highlights key factors shaping academic careers, including hierarchy between research fields, the distribution of service work, teaching, networking practices and gaming-strategies. This presentation draws on Mik-Meyer’s qualitative study of career trajectories, performance metrics and gender dynamics in academia, conducted in collaboration with Professor Margaretha Järvinen. The study is based on approximately 200 interviews with professors and associate professors from social science faculties in Denmark.
Following the presentation, Professor Mik-Meyer will dedicate approximately 15 minutes to address questions from the participants.
The presentation will be fully hybrid.
On 17 September, from 10:15–11:45, Professor Nanna Mik-Meyer will facilitate an in-person workshop for participants. The lecture preceding the workshop will be delivered in a fully hybrid format, allowing participants to join either in person or online. The workshop itself will take place on-site. While all lecture participants are encouraged to participate in the workshop, it is neither mandatory nor a prerequisite.
Please note that registration for the workshop is mandatory due to the limited number of available places. You can register on the linked invitation page here.
Both the presentation and the workshop will draw on insights from Professor Mik-Meyer’s four recent articles, which will be made available upon registration.
Biography
Nanna Mik-Meyer is a Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her main research areas include power dynamics in organisations, processes of marginalisation, gender in academia and qualitative methodology. Her recent work on gender and academia appears in journals such as Sociology, Work, Employment & Society, Gender and Education and Current Sociology. Besides working on the research project on gender in academia (with prof. Margaretha Järvinen), she is part of the management team of The Danish Power Inquiry (Magtudredningen) focusing on freedom of speech in higher education and other themes.
To learn more about her work, please visit her professional webpage: https://www.mik-meyer.com/.
When: 16.09.25 kl 13.00–14.00
Where:
Online
Location / Campus: Digitalt, Tromsø
Target group: Employees, Students, Guests, Invited, Enhet
Contact: Dragana Lukić
E-mail: dragana.lukic@uit.no
Register here