The materiality of research: this device is licensed’: the material and immaterial bureaucracy of research by Derek Dunne

In this feature essay, Derek Dunne draws attention to the hidden bureaucratic labour that is increasingly part of academic life. Rather than see this as the ‘white noise’ to be tuned out of everyday working practices, he calls for us to question the forms that are put in front of us demanding our acquiescence, whilst also locating potential sites of resistance.