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Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them 'entrepreneurial', 'efficient' and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue 'excellence' and 'innovation', many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the 'critic and conscience' of society. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary research project, University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation (URGE), this collection analyses the new landscapes of public universities emerging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and the different ways that academics are engaging with them.
List of contents
List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives
Cris Shore and Susan Wright PART I: REDEFINING THE MISSION AND MEANING OF THE UNIVERSITY Chapter 1. Universities in Britain and the Spirit of '45
John Morgan Chapter 2. Managing the Third Mission: Reform or Reinvention of the Public University?
Nick Lewis and Cris Shore Chapter 3. Universities in the Competition State: Lessons from Denmark
Susan Wright and Jakob Williams Ørberg Chapter 4. Leadership in Higher Education: A Critical Feminist Perspective on Global Restructuring
Jill Blackmore PART II: PERFORMING THE NEW UNIVERSITY - NEW PRIORITIES, NEW SUBJECTS Chapter 5. Science/ Industry Collaboration: Bugs, Project Barons and Managing Symbiosis
Birgitte Gorm Hansen Chapter 6. On Delivering the Consumer-Citizen: New Pedagogies and Their Affective Economies
Barbara M. Grant Chapter 7. Tuning Up and Tuning In: How the European Bologna Process Is Influencing Students' Time of Study
Gritt B. Nielsen and Laura Louise Sarauw PART III: MANAGING THE RISK UNIVERSITY - RESEARCH, RANKING AND REPUTATION Chapter 8. The Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of Reputational Risk Management of Universities and the Higher
Education Sector
Roger Dale Chapter 9. The Rise and Rise of the Performance-Based Research Fund?
Bruce Curtis Chapter 10. Evaluating Academic Research: Ambivalence, Anxiety and Audit in the Risk University
Lisa Lucas Chapter 11. The Ethics of University Ethics Committees: Risk Management and the Research Imagination
Tamara Kohn and Cris Shore PART IV: REVIVING THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY - ALTERNATIVE VISIONS Chapter 12. Who Will Win the Global Hunger Games? The Emerging Significance of Research Universities in the International Relations of States
Christopher Tremewan Chapter 13. Resistance in the Neoliberal University
Sandra Grey Chapter 14. The University as a Place of Possibilities: Scholarship as Dissensus
Sean Sturm and Stephen Turner Chapter 15. Crisis, Critique and the Contemporary University: Reinventing the Future
Susan L. Robertson Index
About the author
Susan Wright is Professor of Educational Anthropology at Aarhus University and Director of the Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF). She coordinated the EU project ‘University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation’ and the EU ITN project ‘Universities in the Knowledge Economy’ in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim. She co-edits (with Penny Welch) the journal LATISS (Learning and Teaching: International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences) and with Cris Shore and Davide Peró published Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Anatomy of Contemporary Power (2011, Berghahn).
Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland. He is founding editor of the journal Anthropology in Action, inaugural Director of Auckland University’s Europe Institute and, with Susan Wright, is editor of the Stanford University Press book series, Anthropology of Policy. His recent books include Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge, (with Susanna Trnka, 2013, Berghahn).
