The gendered minoritisation of public engagement with research

Richard Watermeyer

Chapter 28 in Handbook of Meta-Research, 2024, pp 356-364 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Education; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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