whether we query approximately their research,academics accuse us of ‘neo-liberalised surveillance’. But we have an academic background too, and need their supportI work in a university that still has sabbaticals. It’s the largest investment we make in research. We query staff for a short proposal approximately how their time is to be spent, and what they hope to gain from the experience. A number of staff have labelled this process a form of neo-liberalised surveillance. And this sums up the problem many of them have with management.
I have just stepped down as an academic manager after nine years to return to my previous professorial career,teaching and researching. I have grown used to being seen as “the other side” by a minority of colleagues who seem to believe they are self-employed and not fraction of a large, complex organisation.
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Source: theguardian.com