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978-1529214321Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529214338Dimensions
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Bristol University PressBeing ‘REF-able’. The impact agenda. The student experience. University audit culture has infiltrated academic life, but how should we respond?
Drawing on a five-year Institutional Ethnography of UK universities, the author provides a feminist take on the neoliberal university and abolitionist reflections on audit culture.
For feminist and other critical academics, the interpretative power involved in audit processes provides an opportunity to collectively challenge and subvert, re-read and re-write institutions. This book challenges the myths and misinterpretations around how academic audit processes work, arguing that if we are complicit then we have agency to do them differently.
Autoethnographic Preface;
Introduction: A Feminist Take on the Neoliberal University;
Doing Feminist Research: Exploring Audit Culture Through Institutional Ethnography;
Surveys as ‘Facts’: The National Student Survey;
Funding Fictions: ESRC Research Funding Applications;
Making Myths Material: The Research Excellence Framework as Discourse;
Feminist Audit? Knowledge Exchange and the Impact Agenda;
Conclusion