The state of health of the academic profession in the UK is poor. While many aspiring academics either fail to transition into or otherwise suffer the myriad precarities of an increasingly unstable and unforgiving labour market, others are surrendering the fight against what they perceive as the institutionalisation of their intellectual lives. Intimations of an academic diaspora and a sense of deepening frailty in academics에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ resolve are attributed to the enervations wrought by higher education에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s neoliberalisation, of which may be counted: the university에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s capitulation to bureaucratic fundamentalism, managerial governmentality and fiscal rationality; the creep of cognate cultures of hyper-competiveness, performativity, and individualistic survivalism; and the respective inter-related decline of academic sovereignty and rise of the 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜administrative estate에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ (Altbach 2016). These pathological features of higher education에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s (new public) management are whilst both disturbing and compelling, compromised by an overt if ineluctable emotionalism, nostalgia and proclivity among academics for romanticizing, and to be frank, distorting the historical record. Yet there seems no escaping a sense of academia에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s fading allure 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ the scientific (and social and economic) consequences for which are disastrous. 

In this presentation, I will explore one dimension of this 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜crisis에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ of academic personhood by exploring the contradictions of higher education policy, specifically as relates to demands for academics in UK universities to 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜evidence에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ the societal impact of their research. I will discuss how an impact agenda 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ a ubiquitous aspect of the UK에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s research performance management regime 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ creates conditions that are antagonistic to established forms of academic praxis and the potential for scientific breakthrough, and are paradoxically injurious to the science and society nexus an impact agenda is intended to facilitate. Furthermore, I will argue that a turn towards 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜competitive accountability에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ (Watermeyer and Tomlinson 2017) 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ expedited through a regulatory instrument like the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ is contributive to the subjugation of the 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜public에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ intellectual by an 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트˜institutionalized에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™ counterpart.에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트‹