Gender, Excellence and Academic Research Funding : A quantitative study of the relationship between gender and excellence in Norwegian research fundi…

2017

Master's thesis Public Policy and Management ME502 - University of Agder 2017 This thesis investigates the relationship between excellence and gender in academic research funding. Previous research conducted in Scandinavia has shown that excellence efforts might be damaging for gender equality. I reassess this hypothesis by comparing the application behaviour and successfulness in obtaining research funding of women and men across two highly competitive funding schemes in Norway: one that explicitly stresses excellence in the programme title (the Centre of Excellence programme) and one that does not (the Independent Projects programme). Grounded in organisation theory, I hypothesis that org…