Living with the h-index? Metric assemblages in the contemporary academy

R Burrows - The sociological review, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the relationship between metrics, markets and affect in the
contemporary UK academy. It argues that the emergence of a particular structure of feeling …

Accountability, quality assurance and performativity: The changing role of the academic board

J Rowlands - Quality in Higher Education, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This article undertakes a review of Australian and international literature and higher
education policy in response to the changing nature of university academic boards (also …

[图书][B] After the revolution: Youth, democracy, and the politics of disappointment in Serbia

J Greenberg - 2020 - degruyter.com
What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and
youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution …

On the road to normal: Negotiating agency and state sovereignty in postsocialist Serbia

J Greenberg - American anthropologist, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT I examine how perceptions of state crisis and moral decay in Serbia (after the
breakup of Yugoslavia) impact people's belief that they are no longer normal agents capable …

The age of precarity and the new challenges to the academic profession

MP Ivancheva - Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Studia Europaea, 2015 - ceeol.com
Neoliberalism has had destructive effects on the academic profession. While full-time
academic employment has always been a privilege for a few, the academic precariat has …

Immutable mobiles derailed: STS, geopolitics, and research assessment

T Stöckelová - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Science policies and science studies largely share an understanding of scientific knowledge
and objects as immutable mobiles. This article shows how the analysis of research …

Breaking the deadlock of mistrust? A participative model of the structural reforms in higher education in Poland

D Antonowicz, E Kulczycki… - Higher Education …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Polish higher education provides a particular example of a system that, until very recently,
has been largely reform‐resistant as it has a long‐standing tradition of bottom‐up 'academic …

Doing and learning action research in the neo-liberal world of contemporary higher education

DJ Greenwood - Action Research, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding how action research can be practiced, taught, and learned in contemporary
universities requires understanding the dominant structures that organize higher education …

Analysing an audit cycle: A critical realist account

C Boughey, S McKenna - Studies in Higher Education, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports on the use of a framework developed from Bhaskar's critical realism and
Archer's social realism to analyse teaching-and learning-related data produced as a result of …

Universities in a knowledge economy or ecology? Policy, contestation and abjection

S Wright - Critical Policy Studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Policies to repurpose universities as drivers of a global knowledge economy are often
inspired by formal economic models based on marketable knowledge. Their rationality calls …