University Audit Cultures and Feminist PRAXIS

An Institutional Ethnography
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1432-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meadhbh Murray, Órla

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Meadhbh Murray, Órla
Órla Meadhbh Murray (she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University Newcastle and Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. They are the co-founder of the Institutional Ethnography Network and regularly run Institutional Ethnography methodology workshops. Her areas of interest include queer feminist sociology of knowledge production, inequalities in higher education and imposter syndrome. Their new project focused on gut health and mental health.