eprintid: 10145916
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datestamp: 2022-03-30 14:46:59
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creators_name: Page, Tiffany
title: Sexual misconduct in UK higher education and the precarity of institutional knowledge
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: Sexual misconduct, higher education, precarity, knowledge, ignorance, institutional violence
note: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
abstract: This article draws upon the 2020 review commissioned by the University of Strathclyde in the UK into the sexual misconduct of an academic staff member, Kevin O’Gorman, to examine competing and multi-varied forms of precarity in UK higher education. It considers how precarity as a political condition has the ability to shift and attach to different kinds of structures and bodies, including institutions. The case at Strathclyde helps to illustrate how a claim to precarity can be appropriated by an institution, while simultaneously divesting this term of meaning and attachment to human experience. The article builds on this examination of precarity to investigate the precarious status of knowledge in relation to violence. It argues that despite claims to want to know, institutional failure to understand and act on sexual misconduct is a form of wilful ignorance and an exertion of epistemological power that protects the institution.
date: 2022
date_type: published
publisher: Taylor & Francis
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2057924
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1946572
doi: 10.1080/01425692.2022.2057924
lyricists_name: Page, Tiffany
lyricists_id: TPAGE75
actors_name: Page, Tiffany
actors_id: TPAGE75
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: British Journal of Sociology of Education
volume: 43
number: 4
pagerange: 566-583
citation:        Page, Tiffany;      (2022)    Sexual misconduct in UK higher education and the precarity of institutional knowledge.                   British Journal of Sociology of Education , 43  (4)   pp. 566-583.    10.1080/01425692.2022.2057924 <https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2057924>.       Green open access   
 
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