Summary information
Study title
Women's Careers in Health Technology Research and Innovation 2018-2020
Creator
Nordic Centre of Excellence on Women in Technology Driven Careers (NORDWIT)
Study number / PID
FSD3691 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3691 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd3691 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
The dataset consists of interviews with women who have doctoral degrees and work in the field of health technology. The data were collected as part of the NORDWIT (Nordic Centre of Excellence on Women in Technology Driven Careers) project by Uppsala University, Tampere University and Norwegian research institute Vestlandsforsking. The main focus of the interviews were the interviewees' career stories in research and innovation. The interviewees were also asked about their current employment situation and work community, future plans, gender in the research and innovation field, and balancing work and family. The interviewees discussed the start of their careers, major career events, transitions, and career goals, as well as the importance of the location of their workplace and the influence of their family on their career choices. The interviewees were also asked about the things that had helped them in their careers, the encouragement they have received and the networks they have built up. The interviews covered the importance of work in the interviewee's lives and how they balanced work and leisure time. The impact of gender in the interviewees' current jobs and workplaces was assessed, as well as the visibility of an equality plan at the interviewee's job. The activities of the interviewees' own research teams, their formation, internationalisation, and the promotion of gender equality were also discussed. Entrepreneurship was discussed with those interviewees who worked as entrepreneurs, but others also reflected on their own ideas about entrepreneurship. As the interviews were biographical, the experiences discussed had happened at different stages and in different decades of their careers, mostly in the 2000s and 2010s. The interviews lasted between 1.5 and 2 hours. Background information included, among others, the interviewee's decade of birth, number of children, highest level of education, job title, and type of employer. The data were organised into an...
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Methodology
Data collection period
04/2018 - 04/2020
Country
Finland
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Universe
Women with doctoral degrees working in health technology research and innovation
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Purposive
Non-probability: Respondent-assisted
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Face-to-face interview
Web-based interview
Funding information
Funder
NordForsk
Grant number
81520
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2023
Terms of data access
The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.
Related publications
- Vehviläinen, Marja, Ikonen, Hanna-Mari & Korvajärvi, Päivi (2023) Gender inequalities, research funding and organizational practices: academic mothers in Finnish universities, in Sandra Acker, Oili-Helena Ylijoki and Michelle K. McGinn (eds.) The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender, Routledge.
- Ylijoki, Oili-Helena (2022) Navigating career imaginaries in academia: A view from women researchers in biotechnology, in Gabriele Griffin (ed.) Living the Contradiction: Gender Paradoxes in Research and Innovation, Bristol: Policy Press, 39-55.
- Ylijoki, Oili-Helena (2022) Invisible hierarchies in academic work and career-building in an interdisciplinary landscape, European Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2022.2049335
- Ylijoki, Oili-Helena (2023) Not only for money: Research funding and gender in the prestige economy of academia - an example from Finland, in Sandra Acker, Oili-Helena Ylijoki and Michelle K. McGinn (eds.) The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender, Routledge.
- Griffin, G. and Vehviläinen, M. (2021) 'The persistence of gender struggles in Nordic research and innovation', Feminist Encounters 5(2): 28. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/11165
- Korvajärvi, P. (2021). Doing/Undoing Gender in Research and Innovation: Practicing Downplaying and Doubt. Feminist Encounters 5(2), 27. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/11164
- Suopajärvi, T. (2021) 'Women's career moves in bio and health technology as wayfaring', Ethnologia Scandinavica: A journal for Nordic Ethnology, 51. 231-248
- Suopajärvi, Tiina & Salminen Karlsson, Minna & Ylijoki, Oili-Helena (2021). You Never Travel Alone - Challenging the Masculine Ethos of Individualism in Academic Entrepreneurship. In Eriksson, Päivi & Hytti, Ulla & Komulainen, Katri & Montonen, Tero & Siivonen, Päivi (eds.) New Movements in Academic Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar.
- Hanna-Mari Ikonen & Päivi Korvajärvi (2023): Making choices but few changes: the discourse of choice and mothers working in research and innovation, Gender and Education, DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2023.2250819 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2250819
- Vehviläinen, Marja, Ikonen, Hanna-Mari & Korvajärvi, Päivi (2022) Changes in funding and the intensification of gender inequalities in research and innovation, in Gabriele Griffin (ed.) Gender Inequalities in Tech-Driven Research and Innovation: Living the Contradiction, Bristol: Policy Press, 76-92.
- Vehviläinen, M., Korvajärvi , P. & Ylijoki, O-H. (2021) Sitkeät sukupuolten epätasa-arvoisuudet yliopiston tutkimus- ja innovaatiotyössä [Persistent gender inequalities in the academic research and innovation work, in Finnish], Työelämäntutkimus, 19 (4), 492-519.
- Suopajärvi, Tiina, Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Kristiina, Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika, Hämeenaho, Pilvi & Hytönen, Kirsi-Maria 2019: Tunteilla on väliä: Tutkijan tunteet etnografisessa tutkimusprosessissa. Elore 26(2). https://journal.fi/elore/article/view/77809/47791