Drawing on a five-year Institutional Ethnography of UK universities, the author provides a feminist take on the neoliberal university and abolitionist reflections on audit culture.

For feminist and other critical academics, the interpretative power involved in audit processes provides an opportunity to collectively challenge and subvert, re-read and re-write institutions. This book challenges the myths and misinterpretations around how academic audit processes work, arguing that if we are complicit then we have agency to do them differently.

Órla Meadhbh Murray is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University Newcastle and Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. They are also co-founder of the Institutional Ethnography Network.

Preface

1. A Feminist Take on the Neoliberal University

2. Using Institutional Ethnography: University Audit Culture as People’s Textually Mediated Activities

3. Producing the Student Experience: The National Student Survey as ‘Fact’

4. Funding Fictions and Translation Work: Economic and Social Research Council Grant Applications

5. Making Myths Material: What Does it Mean to be REF-able?

6. The Impact Agenda: A Feminist Opportunity or Just Another Box-Ticking Exercise?

7. After Audit? Imagining Abolitionist Futures

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