Academic Life in the Measured University

Name: Academic Life in the Measured University
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Academic Life in the Measured UniversityPleasures, Paradoxes and Politics\nAuthor(s): Tai Peseta, Simon Barrie, Jan McLean\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138369535, 978-1138369535\nSynopsis\nWhile a life in academia is still one bestowed with enormous privilege and opportunity, on the inside, its cracks and fragility have been on display for some time. We see evidence of this in researchers bemoaning time spent applying for grants rather than doing research; teachers frustrated at the ways student feedback data are deployed to feed judgements about them; and doctoral students realising that they have little chance of securing full-time academic work. Yet in the public policy domain, the opposite appears true: academics left to their own devices in their elite ivory towers, rarely ever do enough.\n\nThis collection addresses the fact that academic life deserves to be rigorously researched. Its emphasis on the me.