Exited

Terminated from Higher Education

Camille Kandiko Howson, Christina Hughes, Malcolm Tight (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2025
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-83797-724-6 (ISBN)

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Exited considers the experience of those academic workers who find themselves abruptly expelled, terminated or exited from their contracts and workplaces. This is an increasingly common occurrence for academic workers with middle or senior management roles, and one that needs both exposure and discussion.

Exited: Terminated from Higher Education considers the experiences of academic workers who find themselves abruptly expelled, terminated or exited from their contracts and workplaces. This is an increasingly common occurrence for academic workers with middle or senior management roles, and one that needs exposure and discussion. While there is extensive coverage of the precarity of early-career, teaching and research staff, the experience of longer-tenured staff is less explored.

This collection of papers and anonymised case studies highlights the lived experience of individuals who have been ‘exited’ from their roles. Academic chapters explore the legal and human resources practices in higher education. Case studies detail those in ascending career positions, established professionals and those nearing the end of their professional careers. Further drivers of sexism, racism and ageism are addressed. The ‘exiting’ phenomenon is contextualised within the broader literature on professional identity and roles in higher education, and on higher education leadership and management, providing insights into these practices, the impact on individuals and the cultures that fuel such behaviours.

Camille Kandiko Howson is an Associate Professor of Education at Imperial College London, UK. Camille is an international expert in higher education research with a focus on student engagement; student outcomes and learning gain; and quality, performance and accountability. Christina Hughes is Founder and CEO of Women-Space Leadership Limited. Prior to this, she has held senior roles as Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick; Provost, Sheffield Hallam University; Deputy Vice Chancellor (Interim) University of Kent. Christina is a Professor of Women and Gender Studies and has a national reputation in the field of access and widening participation. Malcolm Tight is Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University, UK, and Series Editor for International Perspectives on Higher Education Research. Malcom has a broad range of research interests in the fields of higher and post-compulsory education including changing patterns of academic work, the nature of the academic experience and the role of learning in adult life.

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction; Malcolm Tight, Christina Hughes, and Camille Kandiko Howson

Part 2: Mental Health and Bullying

Chapter 2. Mental Health of Staff in Higher Education; Malcolm Tight

Chapter 3. Bullying and Harassment in Academic Life; Wyn Evans

Chapter 4. The Relationship Between Incivility and Bullying: An interview; Fran Sepler and Christina Hughes

Part 3: Case Studies

Chapter 5. Revealing a Covert Narcissist: An autoethnography; Anonymous, UK

Chapter 6. Suspension of an Academic is not a Neutral Act; Anonymous, UK

Part 4: Exit Cultures

Chapter 7. When the Neoliberal University Doesn’t Want You Anymore: Exit cultures in the market era of higher education; Steven Jones

Chapter 8. The Implications of an Exit Culture for Academic Career-Making; Celia Whitchurch

Part 5: Career Impacts

Chapter 9. Mid-Career Academic Culture: Competition, dead ends and burnout; Camille Kandiko Howson

Chapter 10. The Hidden Costs of Leadership: Occupational stress in middle and senior academic roles; Megan Lee, Debbie Massey, Dima Nasrawi, and Richard Lakeman

Chapter 11. Senior Professional Leaders: Toxic teams and institutional cultures; Camille Kandiko Howson and Kelly Coate

Part 6: Responses

Chapter 12. Dismissal and Redundancy: The role of educative leadership and trade union resistance; Justine Mercer

Chapter 13. Refusing to be Silenced: Feminist narratives of leaving the academy; Christina Hughes

Part 7: Conclusion

Chapter 14. Conclusion; Camille Kandiko Howson, Christina Hughes, and Malcolm Tight

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	International Perspectives on Higher Education Research
Verlagsort	Bingley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-83797-724-0 / 1837977240
ISBN-13	978-1-83797-724-6 / 9781837977246
Zustand	Neuware