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The gendered minoritisation of public engagement with research

In: Handbook of Meta-Research

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  • Richard Watermeyer

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Public engagement is habitually treated as a ‘third’ mission activity or third in a hierarchy of core priorities in universities. Its inferior status, by comparison for instance to research, is attributed to limitations in its contribution to the accumulation of positional goods and, therefore, its peripheral role within the prestige economics of higher education. As this chapter discusses, the marginal status of public engagement is compounded by gendered imbalance in the composition of its core protagonists. Conversation with a number of (female) public engagement leaders points to the inhibitory effects of public engagement’s perceived feminisation and correspondingly to public engagement as emblematic of the prevalence of gender-based discrimination in university settings.

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  • Richard Watermeyer, 2024. "The gendered minoritisation of public engagement with research," Chapters, in: Alis Oancea & Gemma E. Derrick & Nuzha Nuseibeh & Xin Xu (ed.), Handbook of Meta-Research, chapter 28, pages 356-364, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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