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The impact of ‘research excellence’ measures on academics’ writing practices in the UK
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Invited lecture at ’Opening the Black Box of Quality: Reflecting on Scholarly Practice in the Social Sciences and Humanities’: International Doctoral Summer School at Klagenfurt University
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This paper is the latest in a short series on the origins, processes and effects of performativity in the public sector. Performativity, it is argued, is a new mode of state regulation which makes it possible to govern in an ‘advanced liberal’ way. It requires individual practitioners to organize themselves as a response to targets, indicators and evaluations. To set aside personal beliefs and commitments and live an existence of calculation. The new performative worker is a promiscuous self, an enterprising self, with a passion for excellence. For some, this is an opportunity to make a success of themselves, for others it portends inner conflicts, inauthenticity and resistance. It is also suggested that performativity produces opacity rather than transparency as individuals and organizations take ever greater care in the construction and maintenance of fabrications.
Professor turns to novel-writing as his research 'had no impact'. Times Higher Education
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Matthews, D. (2016, September 1). Professor turns to novel-writing as his
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Excellence' and exclusion: The individual costs of institutional competitiveness
- R Watermeyer
- M Olssen
Watermeyer, R. & Olssen, M. (2016). 'Excellence' and exclusion: The individual
costs of institutional competitiveness. Minerva, 54:2, 201-218. DOI
10.1007/s11024-016-9298-5.