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The Pursuit of Possibility

Redesigning Research Universities

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Author:
Nigel Thrift

Nigel Thrift explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession of misplaced strategies and false expectations.

Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
31 Oct 2022
Online ISBN:
9781447364870
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447364870
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Front Matter
Front Matter
1: Is that a ‘university’? I’m not sure
Part I: The research university
2: So what is a ‘university’? Part 1: Architecture and academics
3: So what is a ‘university’? Part 2: Students, parents and other constituencies
Part II: The contemporary British university system
4: A new Robbins? Recent changes in British universities
5: The hardy perennials
6: The Australianisation of British higher education
7: On vice-chancelloring – a footnote
Part III: The research university of the future
8: So what is a research university?
9: Redesigning the research university
Back Matter
Notes
References
Index

Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way?

Nigel Thrift, a well-known academic and a former Vice-Chancellor, explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession of misplaced strategies and false expectations.

Challenging both higher education policy and leadership, he argues that the focus on student number growth and a series of research policy missteps has upset research universities’ priorities just at a point in the history of planetary breakdown when their research is most needed.

Professor Nigel Thrift is currently the Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management. Previously he was the Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars. Before that he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol. His research spans international finance; cities and political life; non-representational theory; affective politics; and the history of time.

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© Bristol University Press 2022
Hardback ISBN:
9781447364849
Paperback ISBN:
9781447364856
ePub ISBN:
9781447364863
Online ISBN:
9781447364870
Page Extent:
314
Keywords:
Research; Nationalization; Academics; Unlearning; Higher education; Research Universities
Global Social Challenges:
Education and Learning
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 4: Quality Education
Subject:
Education, Education, Education Governance, Education Policy and Politics, Higher Education, International Development, Globalisation
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