Bou Zeineddine, Fouad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5386-0579, Saab, Rim, Lášticová, Barbara, Ayanian, Arin and Kende, Anna (2022) “Unavailable, insecure, and very poorly paid”: global difficulties and inequalities in conducting social psychological research. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10 (2). ISSN 2195-3325 (doi:10.5964/jspp.8311)

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Abstract

This paper offers an exploration of research production in social psychology as a global endeavor from the point of view of Anglophone social psychologists (N = 232) across 64 countries. We examine social psychologists’ beliefs regarding the difficulties in conducting research in social psychology and the inequalities that they report between the Global North, South and East Europe, and the Global South. Across all regions, we found pervasive critical awareness of obstacles to conducting research – including underinvestment in the field, precarious and counter-productive labor conditions, and excessive and biased disciplinary standards. However, we also found that colleagues outside the Global North reported quantitatively and qualitatively larger obstacles to research. These included well-known historically-rooted inequalities but also contemporary systemic procedural and distributive injustices in material, human, and social-political capital. Non-Northern colleagues in particular critically reflected on how these inequalities and injustices are amplified by Northern hegemonies in social, institutional, disciplinary, economic, and political systems. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for social psychologists, social psychology as a discipline, and its situation within broader hierarchical systems and their intersectionalities.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	social psychology, research practices, precarity, inequality, coloniality, social science, academia
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Inequalities
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2023 10:43
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/42962

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