This article explores academics' well-being through analysing published sensitive
disclosures, bringing to journal space the pain, rawness and emotional suffering of …

This special issue assembles eight papers which provide insights into the working lives of
early career to more senior academics, from several different countries. The first common …

The purpose of this article is to deepen the understanding of academic bullying as a
consequence of neoliberal reforms in a university. Academics in contemporary universities …

In this article, we apply the concept of 'targets and terror', previously used in the healthcare
sector, to the audit culture within business schools. We explore to what extent terror, or the …

We explore autoethnography as a complex and potentially transformative methodology for
understanding and enacting higher education. First, we position higher education in the …

This article offers autoethnographic insights into the consequences of making a spectacle of
oneself in the audit culture of the academy. Spectacle 1 explores my experiences of using …

What we critically ascertain in this essay is how the modern university is increasingly drifting
away from the key ambitions of its own mission statement, and largely by its own doing …

The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world
without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this …

The adoption of a corporate style of university management in China has resulted in a
context in which performance indicators are the primary means of assessing university …

Government response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic promises to entrench austerity
politics deeper into the organization of academic life, and audit regimes are the likely means …