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'Pandemia': A reckoning of UK universities' corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout

Richard Watermeyer, Kalpana Shankar, Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Cathryn Knight Orcid Logo, 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 Orcid Logo, Cathryn Knight Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/01425692.2021.1937058

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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 a...

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ISSN: 0142-5692 1465-3346
Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
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