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Knowledge hustlers: Gendered micro-politics and networking in UK universities

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© 2020 The Author. British Educational Research Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research AssociationThis article explores the role of gendered academic networks in the context of research evaluation, and women’s lived experiences of UK universities. Gendered power is conceptualised as an important aspect of inequality regimes, providing insight into how men maintain power and how power dynamics and informal networks function, characterised in this article as ‘the hustle’. A case study comprising 80 in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews was completed in a UK university. Acker’s theory of inequality regimes informed the central analytical framework, and Bradley’s resource-based theory of power was used to explore the power dynamics in the case study. The findings have resulted in the creation of a conceptual framework which theorises the hybridised nature of inequality, gendered power and organisational lived experience, in which inequality regimes and gendered power interact and are mutually reinforced through informal processes. This article argues, from the findings of the empirical research, that in the context of the neoliberal university, inequality regimes and gendered power interact, and are mutually reinforced through informal processes and networks—‘the hustle’.


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Author(s): Yarrow E

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: British Educational Research Journal

Year: 2021

Volume: 47

Issue: 3

Pages: 579-598

Print publication date: 01/06/2021

Online publication date: 19/08/2020

Acceptance date: 09/07/2020

Date deposited: 10/01/2024

ISSN (print): 0141-1926

ISSN (electronic): 1469-3518

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3671

DOI: 10.1002/berj.3671

Data Access Statement: Research data are not shared.


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