Radboud University Nijmegen

Faculty Member, Nijmegen School of Management

Assistant Professor

Thesis Title: Behind the Scenes of Sciences: Gender Practices in the Recruitment and Selection of Professors in the Netherlands

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I received my Masters in Organizational Anthropology at the Free University Amsterdam (cum laude) and my PhD in Management Sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen (cum laude). I have been a visiting scholar at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver and Northeastern University in Boston. My research interests are in gender in organizations particularly recruitment and selection, micropolitics and resistance, constructions of excellence/quality, networking and organizational change. I am an associate editor of ‘Gender Work and Organization’ and member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Management.

My dissertation (defended April 2009) “Behind the Scenes of Science: Gender Practices in Recruitment and Selection of Professors in the Netherlands”, unmasked some persistent myths related to recruitment and selection which are often used to explain away the under-representation of women in senior academic positions in the Netherlands. These myths are unmasked by revealing the various gender practices tied in with professorial recruitment and selection, such as gatekeeping, male networks and the construction of scientific excellence. The work challenges the view of an academic world where the allocation of rewards and resources is governed by the normative principles of transparency and meritocracy, and highlights the distance between the ideal ethos of science and the actuality of social interaction in daily working situations.

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