April 2022
Third Core Group meeting in Paris concludes successfully
On 6th and 7th April, it was held in a mixed format (face-to-face and online) at the PSL University in Paris (France). The meeting was hosted by the Action Chair, Anne-Sophie Godfroy, who gave an overall view of the action progress and proposed next steps for the coming months. Anne-Sophie Godfroy (chair) reminded the highlighted objectives of the project: visibility and voices for precarious academic workers; attention to gender equality plans, networking with stakeholders inside [...]
“I am interested in an approach that problematizes actors and situations in broader globalized social dynamics”, Maria Brown leader of WG 6.
Maria Brown holds a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Adult and Non-Formal Education and Community Development, a Master of Arts in Sociology and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Italian. She lectures adult education and community-based education within the Department of Arts, Open Communities & Adult Education (Faculty of Education, University of Malta). Her research interests include adult education, education, community action and community development, social equality, sociology, social policy, Europeanisation, sustainable development, methodology [...]
March 2022
VOICES: COST Action that aims to give Young Researchers a voice
Over the last decades, European higher education and research systems have been characterized by deep changes, due to globalization and marketization, that have dramatically transformed research careers. While doctoral and postdoctoral researchers constitute a fast-growing workforce, their working conditions have become increasingly precarious and their career prospects uncertain. Those processes tend to exacerbate and create new forms of gendered inequalities for young researchers, first and foremost women – that have been magnified by the COVID-19 [...]