"Uten gruppa vet jeg ikke hvor jeg hadde vært ... " : brukerevaluering av et tverretatlig tiltak for sedelighetsdømte i Kristiansand

Uniformity Dressed as Diversity? Reorienting female associate professors

The Norwegian Research Council has, via the research programme Balanse Programmet, funded research as well as practice-oriented initiatives for increasing the representation of women in research leadership positions (Lund, 2020). In this chapter we explore the experience of female associate professors with practice-oriented equality promoting initiatives, specifically that of preliminary evaluations, at one Norwegian higher education institution. We investigate whether, how and with what consequences preliminary evaluations speed up female associate professors’ processes of becoming full professors. To make sense of the effects of this initiative, we use Sara Ahmed’s (2004, 2006) affective …