Appointed 2026

Sandra Acker is Professor Emerita in the Department of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests lie in careers and changes in academic work, the social production of academic research, and gendered experiences of women academics.

Over a lengthy career in the US, UK and Canada, she has produced many publications on those and other themes. Books include Gendered Education (1994), The Realities of Teachers’ Work (1999), and with Oili-Helena Ylijoki and Michelle K. McGinn, The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender (2024), for the SRHE/Routledge book series. She has directed research projects on aspects of Canadian academics’ work, most recently Academic researchers in challenging times (arictproject.com), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. As a good higher education citizen, Sandra has served on multiple committees, taught many courses and supervised 23 doctoral students to completion.