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VIRTUAL EVENT: Technology-mediated extraction of land and labour from UK universities
01 December 2020, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
In this webinar, Mariya Ivancheva and Brian Garvey will explore how technology has facilitated further value capture from academic workers with profound implications for the organisation and experience of higher education work.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Centre for Global Higher Education
The return of academic workers from the UK’s most prolonged industrial action in higher education coincided with the onset of a global pandemic.
The emergency push to online provision to maintain educational production and retain and attract future students increased the visibility and frequency of commercial partnerships with digital education providers.
In this talk, Mariya and Brian will discuss how technologically-induced transformation to academic knowledge production has increasingly subsumed the functionality of the university towards market-oriented profiteering, while producing new divisions of labour.
With a focus on the teaching and student facing roles that are increasingly undertaken by casualised, outsourced and deprofessionalised staff, they will explore how digital technologies have broken down the work/home boundaries amidst the pandemic.
Speakers
- Mariya Ivancheva, The University of Liverpool
- Brian Garvey, The University of Strathclyde
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