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Micro-Political Practices in Higher Education: A Challenge to Excellence as a Rationalising Myth?
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O'Connor, Pat; López, Estrella Montez; O' Hagan, Clare; Wolffram, Andrea; Aye, Manuela; Chizzola, Valentina; Mich, Ornella; Apostolov, Georgi; Topuzova, Irina; Saglamer, Gulsun; Tan, Mine G.; Çaglayan, Hulya – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
Excellence has become a 'hoorah' word which is widely used in higher education institutions to legitimate practices related to the recruitment/progression of staff. It can be seen as reflecting an institutionalised belief that such evaluative processes are unaffected by the social characteristics of those who work in them or their relationships…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Politics of Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Perpetuating Academic Capitalism and Maintaining Gender Orders through Career Practices in STEM in Universities
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O' Hagan, Clare; O'Connor, Pat; Myers, Eva Sophia; Baisner, Liv; Apostolov, Georgi; Topuzova, Irina; Saglamer, Gulsun; Tan, Mine G.; Çaglayan, Hülya – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
Academic capitalism is an outcome of the interplay between neoliberalism, globalisation, markets and universities. Universities have embraced the commercialisation of knowledge, technology transfer and research funding as well as introducing performance and audit practices. Academic capitalism has become internalised as a regulatory mechanism by…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism