Navigating Academic Habitus in a Higher Education System That Prioritises External Funding -- The Case of Israel

Autor/inn/en	Weinreb, Yaniv; Yemini, Miri
Titel	Navigating Academic Habitus in a Higher Education System That Prioritises External Funding -- The Case of Israel
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 48 (2023) 7, S.995-1006 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Yemini, Miri)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2023.2175206
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Finance; Higher Education; Theories; Cultural Capital; Intellectual Disciplines; Federal Aid; Stakeholders; Attitudes; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsfonds; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Theory; Theorie; Geisteswissenschaften; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten
Abstract	Israelis consistently secure European Research Council (ERC) grant funding at higher success rates compared to peers from most participating countries. Israeli scores in the ERC metric within the Adjusted Research Excellence Index (AREI) have been significantly above average and double those of the next highest (Switzerland) -- yet on other AREI indicators, including publication and mobility measures, Israel has scored only modestly. Since governmental funding mechanisms in Israeli higher education are heavily weighted to reward institutions for securing external funding, competition between Israeli institutions is intense. This study seeks to understand how various actors in the Israeli system position themselves within their field, and how they navigate and negotiate their positions framed by various disciplinary, institutional, and national pressures. To explore this question, this study uses 43 interviews with stakeholders within the higher education system (including policy makers, senior administrators, and grant winning academics) and documents' analysis to present the perceptions and strategies of actors at all levels of the Israeli academic research system, using Bourdieu's field theory. We show that the national academic habitus regards grantsmanship as cultural capital and grant attainment as symbolic capital. We highlight differences between the humanities, social, life, and physical/engineering sciences in their perceptions and strategies around external funding. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01