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Trying to negotiate the promotion process is a fraught task for many academics but particularly for women. The ways in which power dynamics in universities operate can often place women as academic fringe-dwellers on the ‘cusp’ of institutional cultures in terms of recognition and promotion.
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Sutherland-Smith, W. (2014). “Your’e on the Cusp, but not There Yet”. In: Vongalis-Macrow, A. (eds) Career Moves. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-485-7_3
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