Transcript Louise Morley: Impact, epistemic and social closures? [PPTX 1.03MB]

Diversity,
Democratisation
Difference:Closures?
Theories and Methodologies
Impact:
Epistemic
andandSocial
Professor Louise Morley
Centre for Higher Education
and Equity Research (CHEER)
University of Sussex, UK
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer
Provoking Impact
• Financialization = research an object of
surveillance.
• Technicization of knowledge?
• Clumsy articulation of aspects of social
attitudes to which politicians find it
expedient to appeal (Collini, 2012).
• Expository tactic/ social transparency
• Idealised abstraction/Clearing discursive
debris
• Turning research into a contract model
(Holmwood, 2014).
• Neo-liberal capitalism transferring research
into an opportunity for consumerism.
• Rectilinear accounts of cause/ effect
• Management by Numbers/ Making
individuals calculable (Cooke, 2013).
• Bourdieu’s concept of illusio – the
investment in the game (Colley, 2013).
• Academics affectively orientated to
participate in self-frustrating and punitive
research funding regimes.
Knowing Women: History Written by Victors
• Gendered monopoly of the research
economy
• 4 out of 5 professors in Europe = men (Husu, 2014).
• UK 2008 RAE = men 40% more likely than
women to be entered.
Women less likely to be:
 Journal editors/ cited in top-rated academic
journals (Wilson, 2012).
 Principal investigators
 Represented on research boards/peer review
structures allocating funding (EC, 2011).
 Awarded fewer research prizes (Nikiforova, 2011)
 Keynote speakers at prestigious academic
conferences (Schroeder et al., 2013).
Troubling Values in the Research
Economy
• Knowledge capitalism generating/reinforcing
inequalities and social hierarchies.
• Research/researcher identities =
constructed/reinforced via the optics and
apparatus of neo-liberalism.
• What is valued in research and scholarship =
shaped by market demands.
• Lower UK success rates for curiosity-driven
funding (Else, 2014).
• Feminist research = credibility deficit?
• Counter-hegemonic research= unfundable/
unknowable? (Butler, 2006).
Follow Up?
• Centre for Higher
Education and Equity
Research (CHEER)
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