The Centre for Decent Work and Industry is proud to host Professor Mats Benner from Lund University for a public seminar on Thursday 22 August 2024.
This hybrid format event will be held at The Gibson Room, Gardens Point Campus in QUT’s Faculty of Business and Law.
Abstract
Academic work has been thoroughly changed in the last decades, from vertical hierarchy to conditional flexibility. This in turn is part of the rise of a neoliberal university governance regime, which centres around accountability and input-output efficacy rather than on classical academic virtues such as independence and communalism. I will explore how this transformation has evolved in different parts of the world (Asia, North America, Europe and Australia), and how it has enabled but also constrained academic work when it comes to its constituent parts: content, identity and relations. I will also explore the potential transition to a post-neoliberal trust-based work model, including how this would affect the governance of academic work, communication and collegiality.
Biography
Mats Benner is a sociologist and Professor of Science Policy Studies in the School of Economics and Management in Sweden. He is a visiting professor at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, NIFU, Oslo, and King’s College, London. He is a permanent member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, a board member of Mid Sweden University and has been a member of the Swedish Government’s Research Advisory Board (2009-2010, 2015-2016). He is also Adjunct Professor of Centre for Decent Work and Industry.
Professor Benner is engaged in studies of research policy formation and implementation, and university policy. He works primarily with issues of research policy, university governance and state-industry relations.
Event details
Date: Thursday 22nd August 2024
Time: 11am AEST
Location: The Gibson Room, Level 10, Z block, Gardens Point Campus