Dr. Oili-Helena Ylijoki
(University of Tampere, Finland)
Trapped in Scheduled Time, Longing for Timeless Time
A temporal approach to academic work
In the current managerialistic higher education environment, the temporal dimensions of academic work, careers and identities have attracted growing interest. Such experiences as heavy time pressure, fragmentation of time, accelerating change, short-term future orientations and work-life imbalance have become a common concern. In this presentation, I will focus on temporal complexities, paradoxes and conflicts in academic knowledge production. I will discuss the temporal implications of the project format, which has become the self-evident and dominant way to organize academic research. I will ask how this kind of projectification of science shapes and shakes the temporalities of daily practices, research cultures and the ways in which academics make sense of themselves and their work. I will also distinguish conflicts between different experiential times – scheduled time, body time, timeless time, career time and personal time – and explore academics' strategies to cope with them. Empirically, the presentation draws upon interview material gathered with Finnish professors and early career academics who work in social sciences.
Oili-Helena Ylijoki is a senior researcher and adjunct professor of social psychology at the Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI) at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her research interests cover higher education studies, science studies and time studies. She has investigated, among other things, transformations of research cultures and academic identities, temporalities of knowledge production, gender in academia, university mergers, and student socialization. Currently she is involved also in the Nordic Centre of Excellence "NordWit", investigating women's careers in technology-driven research and innovation in and outside academe. She is a founding member of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers in Finland (CHERIF).
Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 4.00–5.30 p.m. | Vogelpothsweg 78 (CDI building), room 114
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Location & approach
The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is "Dortmund-Eichlinghofen" (closer to Campus Süd), and from B 1 / A 40 "Dortmund-Dorstfeld" (closer to Campus Nord). Signs for the university are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dortmund.
To get from Campus Nord to Campus Süd by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at Campus Nord and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.
TU Dortmund University has its own train station ("Dortmund Universität"). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station ("Dortmund Hauptbahnhof") and Düsseldorf main station via the "Düsseldorf Airport Train Station" (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 15 or 30 minutes). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.
You can also take the bus or subway train from Dortmund city to the university: From Dortmund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station "Stadtgarten", usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At "Stadtgarten" you switch trains and get on line U42 towards "Hombruch". Look out for the Station "An der Palmweide". From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dortmund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dortmund main station to the stop "Dortmund Kampstraße". From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop "Dortmund Wittener Straße". Switch to bus line 447 and get off at "Dortmund Universität S".
The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on Campus Nord. One ("Dortmund Universität S") is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the "Technologiepark" and (via Campus Süd) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at Campus Nord and offers a direct connection to Campus Süd every five minutes.
The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Dortmund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of international flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the university station.
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The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".
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