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‘The COVID-19 crisis is not the core problem’: experiences, challenges, and concerns of Irish academia during the pandemic
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Tom Crick
Irish Educational Studies, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 169 - 175
Swansea University Authors:
Cathryn Knight , Tom Crick
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/03323315.2021.1932550
Abstract
This article, drawing on data from an international survey — distributed in the summer of 2020 — explores the experiences and concerns of academic staff (n=167) working in universities in Ireland and their perceptions of their institutions’ early response to the pandemic. Concerns related to transit...
| Published in: | Irish Educational Studies |
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| ISSN: | 0332-3315 1747-4965 |
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Informa UK Limited
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56883 |
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| Abstract: |
This article, drawing on data from an international survey — distributed in the summer of 2020 — explores the experiences and concerns of academic staff (n=167) working in universities in Ireland and their perceptions of their institutions’ early response to the pandemic. Concerns related to transitioning to remote online working, impact on research productivity and culture, and work intensification, as intersected by enhanced managerialism, are ubiquitous to their accounts. As some respondents wrote of potential positive changes, particularly in the delivery of teaching, we conclude by suggesting potential avenues for building on successes in coping with the pandemic with some recommendations for mitigating some of the harms. |
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| Keywords: |
COVID-19; Ireland; online learning; higher education; managerialism |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Issue: |
2 |
| Start Page: |
169 |
| End Page: |
175 |