This article explores the role of gendered academic networks in the context of research evaluation, and women’s lived experiences of UK universities. Gendered power is conceptualised as an important aspect of inequality regimes, providing insight into how men maintain power and how power dynamics and informal networks function, characterised in this article as ‘the hustle’. A case study comprising 80 in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews was completed in a UK university. Acker’s theory of inequality regimes informed the central analytical framework, and Bradley’s resource-based theory of power was used to explore the power dynamics in the case study. The findings have resulted in the creation of a conceptual framework which theorises the hybridised nature of inequality, gendered power and organisational lived experience, in which inequality regimes and gendered power interact and are mutually reinforced through informal processes. This article argues, from the findings of the empirical research, that in the context of the neoliberal university, inequality regimes and gendered power interact, and are mutually reinforced through informal processes and networks—‘the hustle’.

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知识骗子：英国大学的性别微观政治和网络

本文探讨了性别化学术网络在研究评估背景下的作用，以及英国大学女性的生活经历。性别权力被概念化为不平等制度的一个重要方面，提供了对男性如何维持权力以及权力动态和非正式网络如何运作的洞察，在本文中被称为“喧嚣”。在英国大学完成了一项由 80 次深入、半结构化的定性访谈组成的案例研究。阿克的不平等制度理论为中心分析框架提供了信息，布拉德利的基于资源的权力理论被用来探索案例研究中的权力动态。研究结果产生了一个概念框架，该框架将不平等、性别权力和组织生活经验的混合性质理论化，其中不平等制度和性别权力相互作用并通过非正式进程相互加强。本文根据实证研究的结果认为，在新自由主义大学的背景下，不平等制度和性别权力相互作用，并通过非正式过程和网络（“喧嚣”）相互加强。