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This is our first collaborative writing together even though our ‘we’ voice might suggest that we have previously belonged to the same research teams. We use ‘we’ as a device in this chapter to describe the range of our teamwork experiences in an anonymous way. We write from a position of feeling marginal inside academic institutions, even though we are surrounded by female, often ‘feminist’, colleagues (Reay 2000; Morley 1999). In common with other feminist academics, we feel more acknowledged and valued as researchers outside our institutions than within them. Partly, we realise this is linked to different discourses of performativity that dominate in specific settings.
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Mauthner, M., Bell, L. (2007). Power Relationships in Research Teams. In: Gillies, V., Lucey, H. (eds) Power, Knowledge and the Academy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287013_6
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