Special Issue: Contribution to the open call on “Work - Life Interferences in Scientific Careers”

“Work - Life Interferences in Scientific Careers”, European Educational Research Journal (SAGE), Volume 16, Issue 2-3, May 2017
Guest Editor: Farah Dubois-Shaik and Bernard Fusulier

http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EER/current

This special issue, based on an open call, has resulted in gathering research that adopts various conceptual, contextual and empirical angles, and demonstrates how much the pursuit of a scientific career interferes with private and family life, and how much this interference is gendered. This special issue aims at targeting the following indicative question: What are possible configurations, experiences and tools of work/family balance in contemporary research and academia in national and comparative contexts? Responding to this question, this issue gathers four sets of papers with four broad themes: 1. Neoliberalizing transformations and work/life balance practice in academia; 2. Gender roles and gendered systems in academic work/life balance; 3. Equality policies and their translation in work and life practice in academic/research institutions; 4. Crucial career and life stages and work/life balance.