Academic career in Europe: instability in the conditions of system-wide competition
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No. 1(47) (2016)

Academic career in Europe: instability in the conditions of system-wide competition

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https://doi.org/10.14746/nsw.2016.1.9
Published 2016-06-15
Marek Kwiek
prof. zw. dr hab., dyrektor (od 2002 r.) Centrum Studiów nad Polityką Publiczną i kierownik Katedry UNESCO Badań Instytucjonalnych i Polityki Szkolnictwa Wyższego UAM w Poznaniu. Międzynarodowy doradca i ekspert w sprawach polityki edukacyjnej i polityki naukowej (m.in. dla Komisji Europejskiej, OECD, Rady Europy, OBWE, USAID, UNDP i Banku Światowego). Kierownik lub partner w 50 projektach międzynarodowych związanych z badaniami szkolnictwa wyższego i polityką edukacyjną, finansowanych m.in. przez fundacje Fulbrighta, Forda i Rockefellera, kolejne unijne programy ramowe, European Science Foundation i Narodowe Centrum Nauki. Jego najważniejsze międzynarodowe projekty badawcze dotyczyły relacji państwo -uniwersytet, relacji uniwersytetów z otoczeniem gospodarczym, transformacji kadry akademickiej, zarządzania szkolnictwem wyższym, przedsiębiorczości akademickiej, globalizacji i równości szans edukacyjnych. Jeden z 30 globalnych Fulbright New Century Scholars Fundacji Fulbrighta w dziedzinie badań nad szkolnictwem wyższym (2007-2008). Opublikował 170 artykułów naukowych, a jego trzy ostatnio wydane monografie to Uniwersytet w dobie przemian. Instytucje i kadra akademicka w warunkach rosnącej konkurencji (Wyd. Naukowe PWN 2015, ss. 545), Knowledge Production in European Universities: States, Markets, and Academic Entrepreneurialism (Peter Lang 2013, ss. 486) oraz Transformacje uniwersytetu. Zmiany instytucjonalne i ewolucje polityki edukacyjnej w Europie (Wyd. Naukowe UAM 2010, ss. 447). W 2015 r. został laureatem „subsydium profesorskiego” w programie „Mistrz” finansowanym przez Fundację na rzecz Nauki Polskiej (FNP).
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academic careers
stages of academic development
competition
academic employment
young academics

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Kwiek, M. (2016). Academic career in Europe: instability in the conditions of system-wide competition. Nauka I Szkolnictwo Wyższe, 47(1(47), 203–245. https://doi.org/10.14746/nsw.2016.1.9
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The academic labor market is becoming highly competitive, at all levels, rather than as traditionally, in lower academic ranks only. While successive milestones need to be reached, they result more often than ever before from a steady accumulation of research (and also teaching and service) achievements. The academic career ladder seems ever stronger linked to fundraising abilities and research funds made available; consequently, the role of academic mentors or patrons seems crucial. Viewed from a longer historical perspective, academics need to be more aware of processes exogenous to higher education but closely linked to its future, such as changing rationales for public research funding, a revision of a social contract between universities and governments closely linked to the postwar expansion of science in Europe, changing science policies guiding national research priorities, changing perceptions of the utility of research in knowledge economy, and diversified premium for higher education in contemporary economy across different study. Above factors have powerful impact on the current, and especially future, academic labor market, and particularly on its expansion in some areas and contraction in other areas. More volatile, rapidly changing economies certainly mean a less stable and more competitive academic world.

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