Table of Contents

1. Academics, Professionals and The University: Pathologies and Possibilities, Eric Lybeck (University of Manchester, UK) and Catherine O’Connell (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 2. The Very Idea of Academic Professionalism: at an End or Beginning Anew With an Eco-professionalism? Ronald Barnett (UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK) 3. Selling Academe’s Soul to the Devil?: Performativity, Pressured Professionalism and the Rationalization of Knowledge Production, Linda Evans (University of Manchester, UK) 4. Luck and Precarity: Contextualising Fixed-Term Academics’ Perceptions of Success and Failure, Vik Loveday (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 5. Academic Professionalism in the Measured University, Cathal Ó Siochrú (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Roland Bloch (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), Catherine O’Connell (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Jakob Hartl (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) 6. International Student Recruitment: Policy, Paradox and Practice, Sylvie Lomer (University of Manchester, UK) 7. University Management as Court Society: a Processual Analysis of the rise of University Management, Eric Lybeck (University of Manchester, UK) 8. Reimagining the Place of Professional Education in the University, Vivienne Baumfield (University of Exeter, UK) 9. What are Universities For, and What Should They Be For?: the Power and Beauty of the Disciplinary Infrastructure of our Culture, Julian Williams (University of Manchester, UK) 10. Epilogue, John Holmwood (University of Nottingham, UK) Index

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Critically reflects on the past, present and future of the academic profession, exploring ways of re-conceptualising academic work and identifying constraints and possibilities for advancing academic professionalism.

About the Author

Eric Lybeck is Presidential Fellow in the Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK. Catherine O’Connell is Director of the Centre for Education and Policy Analysis at Liverpool Hope University, UK.