Tag: Academic Labor

Not What It Used to Be: Academic Capitalism and Sociological Futures in the UK

By Daniel Nehring | Published: March 20, 2017

Sociology today, argues our Daniek Nehring, is defined by a fundamental contradiction between its everyday labor practices and its imaginary ethos.

The Deskilled Academic: Bureaucracy Defeats Scholarship

By Daniel Nehring | Published: February 9, 2016

Intellectual labor comes to be largely external to the objectives of the bureaucratic regimes that dominate universities, argues our Daniel Nehring, and academics whose careers were built on intellectual labor turn out to be deskilled workers in organizational settings indifferent to their concerns.

What’s Wrong With Academic Freedom in the UK?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 28, 2015

Given the ferocity of the current assault on academic freedom, argues Daniel Nehring, it seems to me that we may be close to a point of no return, past which ‘tone of voice policies’ and similar control mechanisms may become a norm into which coming generations of academics will be socialized as a matter of course.

Posted in Career, Higher Education Reform | Also tagged Academic Freedom, University of Warwick | Leave a comment

Young Scholars Fear for the University of Their Future

By John-Erik Hansson, Nguyen Vu Thuc Linh and Ola Innset | Published: March 12, 2015

Universities are at a crossroads. Pushed by governments who want institutions to dominate in the competitive, globalized world of higher education, they are also struggling with questions about academic freedom in the face of the pressures of marketization. Here a group of young PhD students argue for more debate about the kind of places universities are becoming.

Posted in Higher Education Reform | Also tagged The Conversation | Leave a comment

Is Higher Education Losing Its Progressive Potential?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: February 26, 2015

In the the concluding piece of his three-article look at academic labor in the UK in the wake of Marina Warner’s departure from Essex, Daniel Nehring asks if the conservative turn in education is driven by students or policy makers.

Posted in Career, Higher Education Reform | Tagged Academic Labor | 1 Response

The New Realism in Academic Life

By Daniel Nehring | Published: February 17, 2015

As some of the ferment that marked university life for an earlier generation seems to dissipate, has a new realism crept in among subsequent generations of academics to accept what they feel they cannot change?

Posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debate | Tagged Academic Labor | Leave a comment

How to Improve Your CV and Get a Great Job

By Daniel Nehring | Published: October 31, 2012

The unsettling truth about the Academic job market.

Tag: Academic Labor

Not What It Used to Be: Academic Capitalism and Sociological Futures in the UK

The Deskilled Academic: Bureaucracy Defeats Scholarship

What’s Wrong With Academic Freedom in the UK?

Young Scholars Fear for the University of Their Future

Is Higher Education Losing Its Progressive Potential?

The New Realism in Academic Life

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