Rensimer, Lee;
(2021)
Between Being and Becoming European Universities: Tensions and Challenges at the Midway Point.
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2021 SRHE Conference.
(pp. 0277).
SRHE (Society for Research into Higher Education)
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Abstract
The European Universities Initiative (EUIs) is exactly halfway through its five-year pilot phase running through 2024. As a policy development which aims to fundamentally transform higher education in Europe, EUIs are saddled with high expectations to deliver on broad and expanding remits in teaching, research and civic engagement across sites and scales. Given the distance between their current and proposed provisions, how do these nascent supranational organisations represent both their operational and aspirational states of being? What tensions become apparent in communicating the multifaceted aims of EUIs to their multiple stakeholders through singular platforms like their websites? This paper complements discussions of broader EUI policy aims by critically examining the digital self-representations of EUIs. It presents the findings from a case study of three contrastive EUIs, drawing on a visual documentary analysis of EUI web pages, social media and other organisational documents.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Between Being and Becoming European Universities: Tensions and Challenges at the Midway Point |
| Event: | SRHE International Conference on Research into Higher Education |
| Location: | Online |
| Dates: | 7 Dec 2021 - 10 Dec 2021 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://srhe.ac.uk/international-conference-2021/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216881 |
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