Advancing academic freedom and collegiality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877187 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roland Bartel (0000-0002-6133-3146, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 433-458 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1745-5871.70001 |
| OpenAlex | W4413912434 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 139 |
The Institute of Australian Geographers encourages members to speak out in support of academic freedom. Academic freedom must be advanced to further the public good. Collegiality, including collegiate decision-making, is fundamental to academic freedom. Academic freedom and collegiality are being undermined in Australia by adverse political interference and counter-productive university actions taken in response. State suppression is evident in acute instances of interference, and in the chronic re-engineering of universities to service a narrow economic agenda. Conservative Australian governments have repeatedly intervened to overturn peer recommendations for research funding, while simultaneously instituting sector-wide cuts, and pushing an ideologically driven pro-academic freedom agenda based on weak evidence, and in disregard of institutional autonomy. A regressive legislative definition of academic freedom has been introduced that restricts the scope of shared freedoms and intra-mural expression, and elides state support and self-governance altogether. Historic and contemporary exclusion and silencing remains unaddressed, and is becoming compounded as university managements uncritically adopt commercial corporate models and perverse internal policies. Codes of Conduct are especially hazardous, as demonstrated in employment terminations, and Federal and High Court litigation. Awareness-raising and advocacy is necessary for law reform, beyond compliance behaviour, and the establishment of autonomous collegiate, inclusive and caring institutions capable of addressing the inter-related environmental and social justice challenges of the Anthropocene
Academic freedom · Collegiality · Geography · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Public Administration
A History of the University in Europe
The imagined and the real
The New Public Governance? 1
Epistemologies of the South
Learning regenerative cultures
Why choice of teaching method is essential to academic freedom
Grim tales
Kaartdijin Bidi (Learning Journey)
‘This can’t be the new norm’
Collegiality as collective affect
The carelessness of entrepreneurial universities in a world risk society
The Good University. What Universities actually do and why it's time for radical change
“Imagining What We Know”
Decolonising the Academy
Two sides of the same coin
Appearance, insults, allegations, blame and threats
For Democratic Governance of Universities
Effective leadership in higher education
An other geography
Academic Freedom and the Critical Task of the University
A one-sided view of the world’
Model code of conduct
The silence/ing of academic women
Academic Freedom and World-Class Universities
Academic Freedom in Europe
Drawing lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
Understanding the ABC of University Governance
Academic freedom and the freedom of academics
The Role of the Humanities in the Modern University
Reimagining academic freedom
The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education
Unsettling the taken (for granted)
The academic precariat
Academic Freedom, Intellectual Diversity, and the Place of Politics in Geography
Teaching, in Spite of Excellence
Beyond Higher Education as We Know it
Australian Higher Education and the Murray Report
Defending science from what
Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality
Academic Freedom in Europe
Critical Dogmatism
From “Calling in Black” to “Calling for Antiracism Resources
Who 'owns' the university? Institutional autonomy and academic freedom in an age of knowledge capitalism
Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement
Decolonising the university from the Antipodes
"Whiteness" and natural resource management
Challenging the colonial legacy of/at Macquarie
Breathing spaces of fearlessness and generosity in the Anglophone/Western university
Indigenising the curriculum
Legal geography, geography, and the research-policy nexus
An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn
Culture clash or ties that bind? What Australian academics think of professional staff
Imagining a future
Academic workloads
The changing face of English universities
Leadership strategies for a higher education sector in flux
Under attack
Reshaping the University
Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities
Collegiality, Bureaucratization, and Professionalization
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |