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Understanding Recent Changes in the Swedish Academic Profession
Linnéuniversitetet, Fakulteten för samhällsvetenskap (FSV), Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS). (Forum för professionsforskning)ORCID-id: 0000-0002-1927-1201
Linnéuniversitetet, Fakulteten för samhällsvetenskap (FSV), Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS). (Forum för professionsforskning)ORCID-id: 0000-0003-0404-8987
2018 (Engelska)Ingår i: Nordic Fields of Higher Education in International Comparison, 2018Konferensbidrag, Enbart muntlig presentation (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

A stratified profession in a differentiated institutional setting: Swedish university teachers from the 1990s onwards

The early 1990s were years of economic recession, accompanied by rising unemployment, the widespread ascendance of new forms and techniques of governance, and politically enforced restrictions on public spending.  At the same time the early 1990s made knowledge society a common trope, and the global university enrolment ratio rose steeply. The two changes are interlinked –expansion of higher education bolstered youth unemployment, a knowledge economy was held up as a model for western societies

This paper examines how the combination of recession and university expansion was accommodated in one specific setting. The Swedish university teachers were subjected to the same changes in the forms and techniques of governance as other Swedish professions. But the higher education sector was reformed during a period of a sector-specific abundance. Two resource-shocks hit the system. One derived from an increased flow of research funding, the other from the rapidly increasing number of students. We argue that this timing and modality in introducing new forms of governance in the Swedish universities (1) postponed the perception of adverse effects on the profession, (2) aligned with, accentuated and altered the structure of an internally differentiated but formally unified university system, (3) created specific groups of beneficiaries at different poles of the system – and that, thereby, (4) an incentive-based institutional framework was worked into the tissue of the professional body, meeting little resistance. This was accompanied and underlined by the shift in the composition of the administrative staff from support functions (secretaries etc.) to agents of control and governance.

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2018.
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university, professors, lecturers, academic profession, higher education system, Sweden, 1980-2015
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Sociologi
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Samhällsvetenskap, Sociologi; Sociologi, Sociologi med utbildningsvetenskaplig inriktning
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-73599OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-73599DiVA, id: diva2:1255754
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Presented at Nordic Fields of Higher Education in International Comparison, Paris, April 12-13, 2018.
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SHEFOE
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Vetenskapsrådet, 2016-04746
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Organisers: University of Bergen, Uppsala University, the Norwegian University Centre in Paris, and Sciences Po, Paris.

Part of the research project; Svensk högre utbildning: finansiering, organisering, rekrytering, utfall 1950-2020 (Vetenskapsrådet, projektnummer 2016-04746)., directed by Mikael Börjesson, Uppsala University

Tillgänglig från: 2018-10-15 Skapad: 2018-10-15 Senast uppdaterad: 2019-05-23Bibliografiskt granskad

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