University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis

An Institutional Ethnography

AvÓrla Meadhbh Murray

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Being ‘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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:448 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gender and Sociology
Antal sidor:206
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529214321

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Mer om författaren

Órla Meadhbh Murray is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University, and Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. They are also co-founder of the Institutional Ethnography Network.

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“This canny and liberating book is a must-read for anyone working in Higher Education. Órla Meadhbh Murray offers an unflinching, evidence-based critique of the neoliberal university, highlighting the gap between audit and accountability. Yet, refusing the gloom, the book also equips readers with concrete tools to create solidarity and real change. Murray’s abolitionist academia is a game-changer and one we desperately need to envision a liveable future for education.” Ashley Barnwell, University of Melbourne

Innehållsförteckning

Preface1. A Feminist Take on the Neoliberal University2. Using Institutional Ethnography: University Audit Culture as People’s Textually Mediated Activities3. Producing the Student Experience: The National Student Survey as ‘Fact’4. Funding Fictions and Translation Work: Economic and Social Research Council Grant Applications5. Making Myths Material: What Does it Mean to be REF-able?6. The Impact Agenda: A Feminist Opportunity or Just Another Box-Ticking Exercise?7. After Audit? Imagining Abolitionist Futures