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Overview

Sandra Acker is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans social sciences and decision sciences, with particular focus on subfields including education, management science and operations research, political science and international relations, and public administration.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Political Science Research and Education
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Social Work Education and Practice
  • Higher Education Practices and Engagement

Sandra Acker has published research articles in venues such as Innovations in Education and Teaching International and Brock Education Journal. Notable papers include:

  • "Editing a higher education journal: Gatekeeping or development?" (2021) in Innovations in Education and Teaching International
  • "Fast Professors, Research Funding, and the Figured Worlds of Mid-Career Ontario Academics" (2021) in Brock Education Journal

Frequent collaborators in research activities include:

  • Mika Rekola
  • Gina Wisker
  • Michelle K. McGinn
  • Anne Wagner

The research contributions reflect engagement with performance evaluation mechanisms and educational policies, particularly within higher education contexts and academic development frameworks. The combination of social sciences and decision sciences informs an interdisciplinary approach spanning evaluation practices and political science perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Sleepless in academia

    Sandra Acker;Carmen Armenti

  • Doing Good and Feeling Bad: the work of women university teachers

    Sandra Acker;Grace Feuerverger

  • Carry on Caring: the work of women teachers

    Sandra Acker

  • Gendered Education Sociological Reflections on Women, Teaching and Feminism

    Sandra Acker;Miriam E. David

  • In/out/side: Positioning the Researcher in Feminist Qualitative Research

    Sandra Acker

  • Thesis supervision in the social sciences: managed or negotiated?

    Sandra Acker;Tim Hill;Edith Black

  • The Realities of Teachers' Work: Never a Dull Moment

    Sandra Acker

  • Feminist theory and the study of gender and education

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  • Women "Learning to Labour" in the "Male Emporium": Exploring Gendered Work in Teacher Education.

    Sandra Acker;Jo‐Anne Dillabough

  • Chairing and caring: gendered dimensions of leadership in academe

    Sandra Acker

  • Gender and Teachers' Work

    Sandra Acker

  • Feminist Scholars Working around the Neoliberal University.

    Sandra Acker;Anne Wagner

  • Becoming a teacher educator: Voices of women academics in canadian faculties of education

    Sandra Acker

  • MAKING A DIFFERENCE: WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN AND CANADIAN FACULTIES OF EDUCATION

    Johanna Wyn;Sandra Acker;Elisabeth Richards

  • Creating Careers: Women Teachers at Work

    Sandra Acker

  • A foot in the revolving door? Women academics in lower-middle management

    Sandra Acker

  • The struggle to make sense of doctoral study

    Sandra Acker;Eve Haque

  • New perspectives on an old problem: the position of women academics in British higher education

    Sandra Acker

  • Made to measure: early career academics in the Canadian university workplace

    Sandra Acker;Michelle Webber

  • Tenure troubles and equity matters in Canadian academe

    Sandra Acker;Michelle Webber;Elizabeth Smyth

  • Is Higher Education Fair to Women

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  • The exchange university : corporatization of academic culture

    Donald Fisher;Adrienne S. Chan;Sandra Acker

Frequent Co-Authors

Johanna Wyn
Johanna Wyn University of Melbourne

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