Author
Richard Watermeyer
Director of Research
Richard Watermeyer is a sociologist of higher education with interests and expertise in issues of policy, practice and pedagogy. His work is primarily concerned with the development of new conceptualisations of academic praxis in the milieu of profound ideological and organisational change for the global Academy. He is Reader in Education and Director of Research in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. His forthcoming book: ‘The noose of competitive accountability” (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) considers how a new breed of not public but ‘competitive’ accountability is destabilizing and deleterious to the work and identities of academics as engaged researchers, and contributive to the corruption of a ‘science and society’ nexus and the erosion of an aspiration of the public intellectual.
4 pieces
Newest first, since July 2018
· Comment
Do we need a league table of scholars produced by Silicon Valley?
For Lawrie Phipps, Donna Lanclos, and Richard Watermeyer a new ranking of individual academics is a troubling development in a changing academic landscape
With Lawrie Phipps and Donna Lanclos
· Comment
Professional services staff working through pandemia
What about professional services staff? Richard Watermeyer, Tom Crick and Cathryn Knight take steps to amplify the voices of a “massive minority” of colleagues on their experiences during the pandemic
With Tom Crick and Cathryn Knight
· Comment
Academic lives are in transition
A group of university academics set out to capture and profile academic lives-in-transition as a result of the pandemic. Here’s the results.
With Tom Crick, Cathryn Knight and Janet Goodall
· Analysis
REF impact – a new mode of scholarly distinction?
Richard Watermayer reports on research into the way research impact was assessed in REF 2014.