Research policy and academic performativity
Compliance, Contestation and Complicity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4098746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carole Leathwood (0000-0002-0150-4695, London Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Barbara Read (0000-0002-8125-8550, University of Glasgow) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1162-1174 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2013.833025 |
| OpenAlex | W2190357679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 23 |
Research, a major purpose of higher education, has become increasingly important in a context of global economic competitiveness. In this paper, we draw on data from email interviews with academics in Britain to explore responses to current research policy trends. Although the majority of academics expressed opposition to current policy developments, most were nevertheless complying with research imperatives. Informed by a Foucauldian conceptualisation of audit, feminist research on gendered performativity, and sociological and psycho-social theoretical resources on the affective, we discuss compliance, contestation and complicity in relation both to the data and to our own location as academics in this field
Complicity · Higher education · Pedagogy · Performativity · Political science · Sociology · Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Gender Studies · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 71 |