Workshop with Professor Nanna Mik-Meyer on gender and career

This workshop builds on the presentation from 16 September and invites participants to reflect on their own experiences in shaping academic careers. Mik-Meyer will begin by summarizing key findings from her project "Gender and Career in Academia". These findings will serve as a starting point for discussion around the following key themes: 1) how academic excellence is defined, 2) the role of networks in creating opportunities, 3) the consequences of gaming strategies and 4) the recognition of service work in decisions about appointments and promotions.

The workshop is an in-person event. It will draw on Mik-Meyer’s four recent articles which willbe made available upon registration.

Program

10:15–10:20: Welcome to the workshop with Professor Nanna Mik-Meyer

10:20–10:30: Introduction, explanation of tasks, and division into groups

10:30–11:00: Group discussions on the four themes

11:00–11:10: Break

11:10–11:25: Each group presents their findings

11:25–11:45: Discussion of findings with Professor Nanna Mik-Meyer and conclusion

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/.