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'Pandemia': A reckoning of UK universities' corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout
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Cathryn Knight ,
Fiona McGaughey,
Joanne Hardman,
Venkata Ratnadeep Suri,
Roger Chung,
Dean Phelan
British Journal of Sociology of Education, Volume: 42, Issue: 5-6, Pages: 651 - 666
Swansea University Authors:
Tom Crick , Cathryn Knight
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/01425692.2021.1937058
Abstract
Universities in the UK, and in other countries like Australia and the USA, have responded to the operational and financial challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic by prioritising institutional solvency and enforcing changes to the work-practices and profiles of their staff. For academics, an a...
| Published in: | British Journal of Sociology of Education |
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| ISSN: | 0142-5692 1465-3346 |
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Taylor & Francis
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56985 |
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Universities in the UK, and in other countries like Australia and the USA, have responded to the operational and financial challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic by prioritising institutional solvency and enforcing changes to the work-practices and profiles of their staff. For academics, an adjustment to institutional life under COVID-19 has been dramatic and resulted in the overwhelming majority making a transition to prolonged remote-working. Many have endured significant work intensification; others have lost — or may soon lose — their jobs. The impact of the pandemic appears transformational and for the most part negative. This article reports the experiences of n=1,099 UK academics specific to the corporate response of institutional leadership to the COVID-19 crisis. We find articulated a story of universities in the grip of 'pandemia' and COVID-19 emboldening processes and protagonists of neoliberal governmentality and market-reform that pay little heed to considerations of human health and wellbeing. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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5-6 |
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651 |
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666 |