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‘Pandemia’: a reckoning of UK universities’ corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout
Date Issued
2021-07-05
Date Available
2021-07-12T14:13:49Z
Abstract
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.
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World Universities Network
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Journal
British Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume
42
Issue
5-6
Start Page
651
End Page
666
Copyright (Published Version)
2021 Taylor & Francis
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0142-5692
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