Disrupted Mobilities, Disrupted Careers: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Junior Researchers

Call for Proposals for an nccr – on the move Blog Series

The current COVID-19 pandemic and disruption of international mobility have created new inequalities and exacerbated existing ones. As a particularly vulnerable group in academia, early career researchers are often in precarious positions and compelled to international mobility, as a major precondition for their professional development.

An nccr – on the move blog series scheduled for early 2021 will be dedicated to the impact of the pandemic and the related mobility restrictions on the careers of junior researchers. We welcome proposals for contributions addressing this topic based on empirical research, theoretical analysis or a reflection of personal experiences. A specific interest of the series is to unpack the roles of gender, academic affiliation, funding sources, disciplinary approach and other factors in creating, perpetuating, or mitigating unequal conditions for the mobility of early career researchers in times of COVID-19.

If you are interested in writing a blog post for this series, please send your proposal to aldina.camenisch@nccr-onthemove.ch until 4 December 2020. Blog contributions can be written in English, French, German, or Italian and should not exceed 6000 characters with spaces in length. The submission date for full contributions will be between late December 2020 and February 2021.