Since the onset of the UK's Research Excellence Framework in 2014,
the environment for academic research has changed dramatically.
Competitive Accountability in Academic Life goes behind the scenes
of the 'impact' policy agenda for higher education research and
interrogates the effects of the new framework on academic research.
Richard Watermeyer dissects how a new requirement to evidence the
economic and societal impact of research has created a culture of
intense competitiveness in UK universities. Through the eyes of
both those responsible for the REF and those working under its
gaze, the author locates the gross deceit spawned from a culture of
competitive accountability in UK universities. This challenging
book reconceptualises the public role of researchers, posing a new
effort to progress the neoliberal malaise by signposting peripheral
zones of participation - and non-participation - as viable
intellectual alternatives to the university. Both groundbreaking
and provocative, Watermeyer's book is critical reading for
academics working not just in the UK, but also internationally. The
author's crucial insight into modern higher education will also
prove indispensable to higher education policy makers looking to
innovate and refine education policy, and to university
administrators overseeing performance management systems.
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