Power, Knowledge and the Academy : The Institutional is Political

This book takes a close-up and critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities. Chapters focus on specific locations in which power shapes personal and institutional knowledge including student-supervisor relationships, research teams, networking, and literature reviews.

Notes on Contributors Introduction Power and the Unconscious in Doctoral Student-Supervisor Relationships; H.Lucey & C.Rogers Power and the PhD Journey: ''Getting In'' and ''Getting On''; K.Almack & H.Churchill Ambivalent Positions: Ethnicity and Working in our ''Own Communities''; K.Mand & S.Weller Interweaving Academic and Professional Power in Higher Education; L.Bell & M.Birch Power Relationships in Research Teams; M.Mauthner & L.Bell Making the Right Connections: ''Knowledge'' and Power in Academic Networking; V.Gillies & P.Alldred Representing Academic Knowledge: Power and Responsibility in Reviewing the Literature; J.Ribbens Mccarthy Measuring What''s Valued or Valuing What''s Measured? Knowledge Production and the Research Assessment Exercise; P.Alldred& T.Miller Feminism, the Relational Micro-Politics of Power and Research Management in Higher Education in Britain; N.Mauthner & R.Edwards Index