University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis

An Institutional Ethnography

Órla Meadhbh Murray (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529214321 (ISBN)

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Drawing on an unprecedented institutional ethnography of UK universities, this book uses feminist and gender lenses to critique the power, culture and structure of Higher Education institutions. Challenging the myths of how academia is governed by audit processes, it provides an opportunity to re-read and re-write these institutions from within.

Being ‘REF-able’. The impact agenda. The student experience. University audit culture has infiltrated academic life, but how should we respond?

Drawing on a five-year Institutional Ethnography of UK universities, the author provides a feminist take on the neoliberal university and abolitionist reflections on audit culture.

For feminist and other critical academics, the interpretative power involved in audit processes provides an opportunity to collectively challenge and subvert, re-read and re-write institutions. This book challenges the myths and misinterpretations around how academic audit processes work, arguing that if we are complicit then we have agency to do them differently.

Órla Meadhbh Murray is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University, and Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. They are also co-founder of the Institutional Ethnography Network.

Preface

1. A Feminist Take on the Neoliberal University

2. Using Institutional Ethnography: University Audit Culture as People’s Textually Mediated Activities

3. Producing the Student Experience: The National Student Survey as ‘Fact’

4. Funding Fictions and Translation Work: Economic and Social Research Council Grant Applications

5. Making Myths Material: What Does it Mean to be REF-able?

6. The Impact Agenda: A Feminist Opportunity or Just Another Box-Ticking Exercise?

7. After Audit? Imagining Abolitionist Futures

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Gender and Sociology
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781529214321 / 9781529214321
Zustand	Neuware