'Pandemia': a reckoning of UK universities' corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout

Universities in the UK, and in other countries like Australia and the USA, have responded to the operational and financial challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic by prioritising institutional solvency and enforcing changes to the work practices and profiles of their staff. For academics, an a...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:British journal of sociology of education Vol. 42; no. 5-6; pp. 651 - 666
Main Authors: Watermeyer, Richard, Shankar, Kalpana, Crick, Tom, Knight, Cathryn, McGaughey, Fiona, Hardman, Joanna, Suri, Venkata Ratnadeep, Chung, Roger, Phelan, Dean
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Routledge 18.08.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
Academic staff
College Administration
College Faculty
Colleges & universities
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
disaster capitalism
Distance Education
Educational Change
Educational Practices
Equal Education
Foreign Countries
Governance
Governmentality
Leadership
Neoliberalism
pandemia
Pandemics
remote working
Retrenchment
Solvency
Teaching Conditions
Universities
university leadership
Well Being
Work
work intensification
United Kingdom
United Kingdom > UK
ISSN:0142-5692, 1465-3346
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Universities in the UK, and in other countries like Australia and the USA, have responded to the operational and financial challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic by prioritising institutional solvency and enforcing changes to the work practices and profiles of their staff. For academics, an adjustment to institutional life under COVID-19 has been dramatic and resulted in the overwhelming majority making a transition to prolonged remote-working. Many have endured significant work intensification; others have lost - or may soon lose - their jobs. The impact of the pandemic appears transformational and for the most part negative. This article reports the experiences of 1099 UK academics specific to the corporate response of institutional leadership to the COVID-19 crisis. We find articulated a story of universities in the grip of 'pandemia' and COVID-19 emboldening processes and protagonists of neoliberal governmentality and market reform that pay little heed to considerations of human health and well-being.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
ISSN:0142-5692
1465-3346
DOI:10.1080/01425692.2021.1937058