(Previously held session) YERUN: Practical challenges of implementing policies for early academic careers (by invitation only)
Universities are the recipients of a number of policies, which often have to be dealt with by different services in parallel (research departments, education departments, human resources departments, etc.). Early career academics are now targeted by several concomitant initiatives, whereas university services also have to implement other policies concerning knowledge valorisation, innovation, infrastructure, open science or gender equality, amongst others. Such policies may take different forms; increasingly, they are formulated as conditions to funding on which universities rely year by year. In addition, different policies may be decided at different levels – institutional, regional, national, European. How do universities and their services grapple with the variety of overlapping objectives they are supposed to tackle at the same time?