KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS GENDER : an east-west comparative study Framing of the KNOWING project Marcela Linková
project duration and partners , Framework Programme 6, European Commission, STREP, Science and Society call Partners 1. Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 2. Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Czech Republic 3. Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia 4. University of Leeds, United Kingdom 5. Department for Social Studies of Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria 6. Department of Sociology, University of Turku, Finland 7. Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland 8. Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
project objectives to study research organisations, practices and careers with attention to –east / west and/or centre/periphery alignments –gender –social / academic positioning (seniority, affiliation to different types of academic institutions, different streams of research) –natural / social sciences
project methods life course questionnaire discourse analysis participant observation in-depth interviews focus group interviews
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