Rumyantseva, N, Ballardie, R and Alahakone, R (2022) Managerialism and academic professional autonomy - power and resistance in the UK universities: the case of lecture capture policies before and during Covid-related shift to online learning. Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE), University of Greenwich.
Abstract
New Public Management (NPM) and marketisation have dramatically changed UK higher education (HE). Academic roles have been re-shaped (MacFarlane, 2012), workloads increased (Jacobs, 2004; Tight, 2010; Zucas & Malcolm, 2017) performance management has increased surveillance, with diminished professional autonomy, academic freedom and professional discretion. Institutional power has shifted from academics to managers (Deem & Brehony, 2005). New technologies contribute to this. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, lecture capture (LC) technologies although enabled teaching to go on during lockdowns, have also increased the rift between managerial and professional perspectives often at the expense of academics’ job satisfaction and job security. The aim of this research project was to explore how managerial and professional powers are negotiated during lecture capture policy development and implementation as well as the shift to online teaching. How these negotiation dynamics and wider institutional, social and economic inform and shape academic responses to changes (through compliance, adaptation or resistance), and how individual and collective responses mediate academic agency. This report focuses on reporting negotiation patterns across institutions and processes of academic resistance.
| Item Type: | Commissioned Report |
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| Note: | The report is available to read online at the URL below. |
| Keywords: | higher education, managerialism, power, resistance, technology, lecture capture, New Public Management, academic professionalism, resistance and autonomy, lecture capture technology, Covid-related shift to online teaching |
| Divisions: | School of Education |
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| Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2024 16:23 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 16:24 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16518 |
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