Book review: competitive accountability in academic life: the struggle for social impact and public legitimacy by Richard Watermeyer
Kalpokas, I.
(19 January 2020)
Book review: competitive accountability in academic life: the struggle for social impact and public legitimacy by Richard Watermeyer.
Impact of Social Sciences Blog.
In Competitive Accountability in Academic Life: The Struggle for Social Impact and Public Legitimacy, Richard Watermeyer critically explores the increasing quantification of academic life and the rise of the marketised competitive university. This book particularly succeeds in not only exploring the futility and counterproductiveness of quantified academic performance metrics, but also revealing how complicity among some academics allows these practices to become even more entrenched, writes Ignas Kalpokas.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2020 The Author |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 28 Feb 2020 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/103604 |
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