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The Societal Embeddedness of Academic Markets: From Sex to Gender in the Swiss Context

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The last 10 years have been characterised by significant changes in the Swiss academic market. The system is becoming more international, the chair model is giving way to a department-based model, and attempts are being made to integrate historically segmented sub-markets into a single national market. These transformations have been substantial.

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    The EuroAC research study entitled ‘The Academic Profession in Europe: Responses to Societal Change’ took place between 2008 and 2011 in 10 European countries, employing a common survey to characterise the academic profession. The Swiss study was conducted in February and March 2010, using an online questionnaire based on that used in the CAP (‘Changing Academic Profession’) project, with minor alterations to reflect the Swiss context. All Swiss universities and applied sciences universities (including teacher training universities) were asked to participate in the project, with the questionnaire being distributed to approximately 18 000 academics. A total of 1471 complete questionnaires were returned, along with 2206 incomplete questionnaires. After a detailed check of the completed questionnaires, 1424 were considered usable for further analysis.

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    SNSF Prospective researcher fellowships are aimed at supporting researchers at the beginning of their career through a research stay abroad. This programme is targeted at doctoral candidates nearing completion (6–24 months stay) and postdoctoral researchers (12–36 months stay abroad). Fellowships are attributed through SNSF commissions based in each higher education institution. Advanced researcher fellowships also imply a stay abroad (12–36 months) but the candidate must hold a doctorate, have at least a one year of post-doctoral activity, and present a project designed to ‘deepen their knowledge’ and improve their ‘scientific profile’. In this case, fellowships are attributed at the SNSF level.

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    The study included 12 countries: Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Finland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and Croatia.

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    To enable comparisons, analysis of the EuroAC survey data differentiated between senior academics (professors and other permanently employed academic staff) from junior academics (lower status and non-permanent staff).

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    The EuroAC research only took into account academics working at least 50 % of a full-time load.

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    The Swiss government is comprised of 7 federal councillors that make up the Federal Council. Each federal councillor is responsible for one department of the federal administration, and the president of the confederation – considered a Primus Inter Pares – is elected annually from among group of councillors.

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    Data from the EuroAC research study, 2010.

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  1. Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, OSPS, LACCUS, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Gaële Goastellec

  2. Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, OSPS, STSlab, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Fabienne Crettaz von Roten

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Goastellec, G., von Roten, F.C. (2017). The Societal Embeddedness of Academic Markets: From Sex to Gender in the Swiss Context. In: Machado-Taylor, M., Soares, V., Teichler, U. (eds) Challenges and Options: The Academic Profession in Europe. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45844-1_9

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