Crossfire of interests in the recruitment of academic staff
Published Feb 15, 2022
Malin Henningson and Lars Geschwind publish an article in the magazine Universitetsläraren about the employment process in universities.
Recruitment of academic staff: An institutional logics perspective
The employment process in universities consists of a tangle of contradictions. This can lead to the person who is eventually hired not being the one the business primarily needs.
This is shown by a study carried out by industrial doctoral student Malin Henningsson and Professor Lars Geschwind, head of Learning in STEM . The main author Malin Henningsson, who also works at The Knowledge Foundation , has interviewed 14 heads of various universities about the employment process for the permanent positions.
- Read the article in Universitetsläraren (In Swedish)
- Here is the research article Recruitment of academic staff: An institutional logics perspective