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http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36617| Author(s): | Cairns, D. |
| Editor: | Cairns, David |
| Date: | 2025 |
| Title: | Mid-career cruelty |
| Book title/volume: | Precarity and the development of research careers in academia: Becoming a researcher |
| Pages: | 87 - 109 |
| Reference: | Cairns, D. (2025). Mid-career cruelty In D. Cairns (Ed.), Precarity and the development of research careers in academia: Becoming a researcher (pp.87-109). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96409-1_5 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-031-96409-1 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1007/978-3-031-96409-1_5 |
| Abstract: | The intermediate or mid-career stage, defined in the context of this chapter as between 5 and 12 years of post-PhD experience is a particularly challenge time in a researcher’s career. In this chapter, I provide illustrations of why this is indeed the case, including difficulties arising from a perception of limited opportunities at a time when there is a need to maintain a high level of scientific productivity. I also note the importance of social and political developments that have had the potential to improve and disrupt careers in the Portuguese context. This includes the example of a policy initiative aimed at addressing precarity among postdoctoral researcher that has appears to have had the converse effect, a situation I explain in terms of the ‘cruel optimism’ idea introduced in the work of Lauren Berlant (2011). |
| Peerreviewed: | yes |
| Access type: | Embargoed Access |
| Appears in Collections: | CIES-CLI - Capítulos de livros internacionais |
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