Sandra Acker is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Canada.

Oili-Helena Ylijoki is Senior Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland.

Michelle K. McGinn is Professor and Acting Vice-President, Research at Brock University, Canada.

Introduction

1. Editors' introduction Sandra Acker, Oili-Helena Ylijoki & Michelle K. McGinn

2. Research funding and gender: insights from the literature Sandra Acker

Part one: stability and change

3. Here today, gone tomorrow: the vicissitudes of funding in gendered higher education contexts - a view from Sweden Gabriele Griffin

4. Discourses of university research in precarious times: a spatial/temporal analysis from the United Kingdom Barbara Read & Carole Leathwood

5. Gender inequalities, research funding and organisational practices: academic mothers in Finnish universities Marja Vehviläinen, Hanna-Mari Ikonen & Päivi Korvajärvi

6. Casting a long shadow: COVID-19 and female academics' research productivity in the United Kingdom Kate Carruthers Thomas

Part two: care and conflict

7. Funding journeys in health technology in Finland: the atypical stories of Sara and Heidi Oili-Helena Ylijoki

8. Caring about research: gender, research funding and labour in the Canadian academy Marie A. Vander Kloet & Caitlin Campisi

9. The gendered affective economy of funding: conflicting realities of university leaders and researchers in Finnish academia Johanna Hokka, Elisa Kurtti, Pia Olsson, & Tiina Suopajärvi

10. Black women academics, research funding and institutional misogynoir in the United Kingdom Shirley Anne Tate

Part three: funding and defunding

11. Status hierarchies, gender bias and disrespect: ethnographic observations of Swedish Research Council review panels Lambros Roumbanis

12. Tracing excellence and equity in research funding: policy change in the Canada Research Chairs Program Merli Tamtik & Dawn Sutherland

13. Women academics under RAE and REF: the changing research funding policy landscape in the United Kingdom Lisa Lucas

14. Research funding organisations as change agents for gender equality: policies, practices and paradoxes in Sweden Liisa Husu & Helen Peterson

Index