Paula Mählck

• PhD, ass prof sociology of ethnicity and migration
• Lecturer at Stockholm University

Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzaniaexamines the dynamics of learning domestic and care work within affluent expatriate households, characterized by significant economic privilege and, at times, diplomatic immunity.Paula Mählck employs contemporary narratives from privileged female expatriate employers and Tanzanian domestic workers, colonial doc...

This article explores recent changes in research priorities and the allocation of national state research funding. This article also analyzes how changes in research priorities relate to already existing structures of inequality based on gender and race in Swedish academia. More specifically, I have explored - using secondary data, reports, and pre...

This chapter contributes to the literature on diversity in higher education. In particular it will discuss the main findings from prior research focusing on two different groups of transnational academics, development aid-funded PhD students from Tanzania and Mozambique. One part of the research focused on experiences of Mobility and PhD Education,...

Sweden is known for its political will to gender equality. Sweden is also a country with a strong tradition of transparency in university recruitments. In this article, the assessment practices in the appointment of full professors in one Swedish university are investigated from an intersectional and postcolonial perspective on gender and place/spa...

Tidskrift för genusvetenskap nr 38(4) 2017 55 frispel/Ain't i A womA n?/Är inte jAg en forskAre? När jag skriver den här texten har vår kollega Margaret Gärding nyli-gen gått bort. Hennes feministiska och antirasistiska engagemang visade sig i akademiska debatter och genom sitt politiska arbete i bland annat Feministiskt initiativ (Fi). Med denna t...

ABSTRACT There is a growing interest from states in the global north and NGOs worldwide in building research capacity in countries of the global south through development-aid-funded research training (United Nations, 2015). In this context, little is known on the social and intellectual positioning of development- aid-funded students in relation to...

Focusing on Tanzanian and Mozambican PhD students funded by Swedish development aid, this article investigates how everyday academic work life is gendered in Sweden and in the students’ home academic departments. In particular, it focuses on the role of ‘important others’, such as international donors, universities, colleagues and family, in enhanc...

Könad och rasifierad ojämlikhet är ett vanligt förekommande fe- nomen i vardagen inom det akademiska arbetslivet och var man än bor och arbetar. Vi vet exempelvis att könad och rasifierad ojämlik- het inom akademiska organisationer påverkar hur icke-vita kvin- nor upplever det akademiska arbetet, hur deras karriärmöjlighe- ter formas och var och hu...

This article aims to offer some thoughts that go beyond mere bibliometric and scientometric evidence, by empirically and comparatively exploring the conditions for, and the experiences of research and international research collaboration of African PhD holders who graduated with support from development cooperation/aid. The article explores the cons...

p class="p1">This article aims to offer some thoughts that go beyond mere bibliometric and scientometric evidence, by empirically and comparatively exploring the conditions for, and the experiences of research and international research collaboration of African PhD holders who graduated with support from development cooperation/aid. The article exp...

Sample and Method: The respondents are Mozambican scholars who have participated in a Swedish development-aid-supported PhD training programme in which mobility is mandatory. Using an online survey and interviews, their experiences of gendered and racialised inequality are theorised through the lenses of postcolonial knowledge theory and feminist t...

Set in a Swedish university context, this article explores the complexities of postgraduate supervision among a group of students who are seldom included in research on the internationalisation of postgraduate supervision – development-aid-funded PhD students. The results highlight the importance of acknowledging students’ prior knowledge and mobil...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into certain themes and discourses that have emerged from two research projects on gender and racial equality in higher education in Sweden and South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on discourse analysis using a Foucauldian lens, and Universalism concepts premised on Robert Me...

In the context of globalisation, the expansion of the higher education sector has been accompanied by growing demands for greater socio-economic responsiveness on the part of universities. In turn, these changes have been accompanied not only by calls for greater diversity and wider representation of all social groups in university life, but also b...

It is well known that universities arc male dominated both in history as well as in the dominant discourses. As knowledge producing organizations universities also carries the heritage of defending the scientific ethos of meritocracy and objectivity, these are rules that many researchers still are trained to believe in. This makes often studying of...

Despite a growing interest in gender differences in scientific careers, few studies have focused on the impact of research organization on researchers. This article offers a new approach to this issue by introducing bibliometric maps combined with sociological data and interviews, taking both the research organization and the experiences of the ind...

The mapping of author networks at academic departments is the focus of this study. Papers from two departments at two different universities, but within the same field of research, were analyzed in terms of co-authorship, direct and indirect citations among the authors. Considerable overlap was found between the co-authorship and the citation based...