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Researchers at Risk

Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia

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Editors:
  1. Deborah L. Mulligan

    1. Faculty of Business, Education, Law & Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  2. Patrick Alan Danaher

    1. School of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  • Examines the phenomenon of researchers at risk
  • Explores how this can be related to aspects of identity, economic or political conditions
  • Draws on a diverse range of global case studies to address strategies for engaging with risk

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods (PSERM)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Conceptualising Researchers’ Risks and Synthesising Strategies for Engaging with Those Risks: Articulating an Agenda for Apprehending Scholars’ Precarious Positions

      • Deborah L. Mulligan, Patrick Alan Danaher
      Pages 3-19

    3. Still Anonymous: Stigma, Silencing and Sex Work in Australia

      • Dr Anonymous
      Pages 21-33

    4. “Punctuation, Pause, Next Slide, Please”: The Risks of Research and Self-Disclosure

      • Dawne Fahey, Deborah Cunningham Breede
      Pages 35-54

    5. Reconstructing Academic Identities at Risk: Conceptualising Wellbeing and Re-imaging Identities

      • Irina Lokhtina, Mark A. Tyler
      Pages 55-70

    6. When Faith is on the Line: Exploring the Personal Risks and Rewards of Transformative Learning

      • Rian Roux
      Pages 71-84

    7. The Risky Responsibility of Doctoral Writing as Grief Work: Lessons Learnt Whilst Journeying with Trauma in Australia

      • Deborah L. Mulligan
      Pages 85-99

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-102
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    2. “No Future for You”: Economic and Mental Health Risks in Young Spanish Researchers

      • Israel Martínez-Nicolás, Jorge García-Girón
      Pages 103-114

    3. The Risks of Precarity: How Employment Insecurity Impacts on Early Career Researchers in Australia

      • Lara McKenzie
      Pages 115-129

    4. How to Make the Cut in Academia: Managing the Uncertainty of Time as a Necessity to Have a Research Career

      • Jochem Kotthaus, Karsten Krampe, Andrea Piontek, Gerrit Weitzel
      Pages 131-146

    5. The Need to Be a Leader of Research in the United States: Take the Risk and Move Beyond Your Opponents

      • David B. Ross, Gina L. Peyton, Vanaja Nethi, Melissa T. Sasso
      Pages 147-161
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About this book

This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities. This risk may derive from working with variously marginalised individuals or groups, or from being members of such groups themselves. At other times, the risk relates to particular economic or environmental conditions, or political forces influencing the specific research fields in which they operate. This book argues for the need to reconceptualise – and thereby to reimagine – the phenomenon of researchers’ risks, particularly when those risks are perceived to affect, and even to threaten the researchers. Drawing on a diverse and global range case studies including Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Balūchistān, Cyprus, and Germany, the chapters call for the need to identify effective strategies for engaging proactively with these risks to address precarity, jeopardy and uncertainty. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Business, Education, Law & Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Deborah L. Mulligan

  • School of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Patrick Alan Danaher

About the editors

Deborah L. Mulligan researches in the field of gerontology, specifically with older men and suicide ideation. She is interested in community capacity building through examining the sustainability of particular men’s groups with male-only membership, and also in ethics and reciprocity when conducting research with marginalised groups.
 
Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor of Educational Research and Acting Deputy Head of the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and the Arts at Central Queensland University, Australia. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University and James Cook University, both in Australia, and Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Researchers at Risk

  • Book Subtitle: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia

  • Editors: Deborah L. Mulligan, Patrick Alan Danaher

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53857-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53856-9Published: 05 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53859-0Published: 06 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53857-6Published: 04 January 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2662-7345

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-7353

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 348

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Self and Identity, Research Methods in Education, Personal Development, Career Skills

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