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Navigating the Unstable Terrain of Emerging Researchers

This research delves into the varied dimensions of emergence in the realm of junior researchers, addressing issues of marginalization, institutional challenges, and professional stigma. It explores the personal experiences of untenured academics and examines the risks and potentials associated with this volatile subject position. The study also scrutinizes the conundrums of constituting emergent researchers within the broader scope of social science projects and career trajectories.

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Navigating the Unstable Terrain of Emerging Researchers

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  1. Disturbing the emerging researcher: political projects, noble causes and an unstable subject position Nicolas Lewis School of Geography and Environmental Science University of Auckland

  2. Multiple dimensions of emergence • Juniority • Low status occupations • Youth • Immaturity: intellectual /political • Marginalisation

  3. Themes • Multiple dimensions of emergence – within and external difference • Instabilities of an untenured academic • Nested problematics • Constituting the emergent researcher (what are we doing here?) • Risks and potential • Epistemic dissonance – is it ‘good to be’ an emerging researcher

  4. Personal experience/conditions of emergence: the instabilities of an untenured academic • Security of income • Institutional marginalisation • Professional stigma • Agenda-less existence • Struggles with editors and PBRF panels • Giz a job!

  5. Nested problematics Social science as representative project Social science and the disciplines Social science as career Research as good - more is better Emerging researcher

  6. Constituting the emergent researcher (what are we doing here?) • A project of the social sciences • grasping a policy moment, building a policy space • re-policying the production of knowledge • reproducing ‘our’selves • funding-led rationalities • A noble cause • recognising difference and difficulty • creating space for emergence • making social science attractive

  7. Risks and potential • Potential • labels activities that build networks • stimulates interest • enhances existing models of support • works the science analogue • leverages support for the noble cause • Risks • empty of meaning – no self-identification, no institutionalisation, no buy-in • overfull with meanings • damage other models of support • dumping ground for the marginal, or for specific concerns • political project swamps noble cause • band-aid solution to deep structural crisis

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