Institutional Logics and Practices Research Group |The University of Melbourne

Sarah Balkin | English & Theatre Studies Robin Canniford | Marketing & Management Michal Carrington | Marketing & Management Thomas Ford | English and Theatre Studies Joe Hughes | English and Theatre Studies Timothy Laurie | Screen and Cultural Studies Joeri Mol | Marketing and Management Miya Tokumitsu | Art History

Martina Cullen |Team Leader: Academic Programs, University of Melbourne

Richard James | Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne

Jane Kenway | Education Faculty, Monash University

Kathleen Kuehn | English, Film, Theatre & Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

Remy Low | Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney

Tamson Pietsch | Department of History, University of Sydney

Stephanie Ryan-Smith | Management Consultant, Darlo Higher Education

Higher education in Australia is constantly undergoing change – new funding regimes, new ways to measure quality and performance, and new relationships between universities, TAFEs, high schools and other educational institutions. While public debate has mostly centred on student enrolments, equity in government funding, and university research rankings, less attention has been paid to the social life of academia itself. From optimistic first-years to seasoned grant-holders and university upper-management, rapid transformations in Australian university structures are producing new kinds of social relationships, new modalities of authority and responsibility, and unexpected conflicts and tensions around everything that falls outside a position description. This symposium addresses a range of quotidian metamorphoses in the worlds of Australian higher education, from the pitted trajectories of undergraduates arriving from outer suburbs to inner sandstones, to the geographical imaginaries of transnational education. Featuring invited speakers from Victoria University of Wellington, University of Sydney, Monash University and the University of Melbourne, The Social Life of Academia offers new perspectives on familiar conversations around teaching, research, and management.

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When: 10am-5pm, Nov 13 (food and drinks provided) Where: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, the Sidney Myer Asia Centre, the University of Melbourne Contact: Tim Laurie | timothy.laurie@unimelb.edu.au

Supported by The School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and the Cluster for Organization Society & Markets (COSM)