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ERIC Number: EJ1023249
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0307-5079
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Research Policy and Academic Performativity: Compliance, Contestation and Complicity
Leathwood, Carole; Read, Barbara
Studies in Higher Education, v38 n8 p1162-1174 2013
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.
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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