Rebusque

Abstract This article explores how women full professors engage in practices of rebusque to try to offer conditions that can allow their students to conduct academic research. Thanks to the efforts of the professors, these students can finish their degrees despite the prevalent precarity and scarcity of government funds in Colombia. Mainly based on twenty-four semi-structured and in-depth interviews with women professors, this article argues that the main form of rebusque is through alliances, and it emerges as three practices: (1) being available to perform services required by public and/or private entities; (2) developing marketing strategies to obtain materials; and (3) cultivating relationships with colleagues to gain access to other laboratories through academic exchanges of their students.