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Contents Chapter 1
Chapter 2
General introduction 7
1.1. Central concepts 11 1.2. Research context and design 15 1.3. Research questions and outline of the dissertation 24
Precarious postdocs: A comparative study on recruitment and 27 selection of early-career researchers
2.1 Introduction 28 2.2 The rise of postdocs 30 2.3 The ideal academic 32 2.4 Recruiting and selecting academics 33 2.5 Methodology 34 2.6 Research findings 38 2.7 Discussion and conclusion 44
Selecting early-career researchers: The influence of discourses of 49 internationalisation and excellence on formal and applied selec-
tion criteria in academia
3.1 Introduction 50 3.2 Evaluating academic staff in the neoliberal university 51 3.3 Methodology 53 3.4 Results 56 3.5 Discussion and conclusion 67
The peril of potential: Gender practices in the recruitment and 73 selection of early-career researchers
4.1 Introduction 74 4.2 Precarious academic positions 75 4.3 Recruitment, selection, and gender practices 76 4.4 Methods 78 4.5 Findings 84 4.6 Discussion and conclusion 103
Chapter 3
Chapter 4