Multiple dimensions of emergence:
Multiple dimensions of emergence Juniority
Low status occupations
Youth
Immaturity: intellectual /political
Marginalisation
Themes:
Themes Multiple dimensions of emergence – within and external difference
Instabilities of an untenured academic
Nested problematics
Constituting the emergent researcher (what are we doing here?)
Risks and potential
Epistemic dissonance – is it ‘good to be’ an emerging researcher
Personal experience/conditions of emergence: the instabilities of an untenured academic:
Personal experience/conditions of emergence: the instabilities of an untenured academic Security of income
Institutional marginalisation
Professional stigma
Agenda-less existence
Struggles with editors and PBRF panels
Giz a job!
Nested problematics:
Nested problematics Social science as representative project Social science and the disciplines Social science as career Research as good - more is better Emerging researcher
Constituting the emergent researcher (what are we doing here?):
Constituting the emergent researcher (what are we doing here?) A project of the social sciences
grasping a policy moment, building a policy space
re-policying the production of knowledge
reproducing ‘our’selves
funding-led rationalities
A noble cause
recognising difference and difficulty
creating space for emergence
making social science attractive
Risks and potential:
Risks and potential Potential
labels activities that build networks
stimulates interest
enhances existing models of support
works the science analogue
leverages support for the noble cause
Risks
empty of meaning – no self-identification, no institutionalisation, no buy-in
overfull with meanings
damage other models of support
dumping ground for the marginal, or for specific concerns
political project swamps noble cause
band-aid solution to deep structural crisis