‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy

Faulkner, S; Gavin, M; Hassanli, N; Hergesell, A; Jasovska, P; Kaya, E; Klettner, A; Small, J; Walker, CN; Weatherall, R

‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy

Faulkner, S

Gavin, M

Hassanli, N

Hergesell, A

Jasovska, P

Kaya, E

Klettner, A

Small, J

Walker, CN Weatherall, R

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Citation:: Management Learning, 2023
Issue Date:: 2023-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Faulkner, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7904-1240
dc.contributor.author	Gavin, M https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6796-5198
dc.contributor.author	Hassanli, N https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3392-0829
dc.contributor.author	Hergesell, A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6794-7045
dc.contributor.author	Jasovska, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4996-1852
dc.contributor.author	Kaya, E https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2500-4131
dc.contributor.author	Klettner, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2838-9383
dc.contributor.author	Small, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6200-5398
dc.contributor.author	Walker, CN
dc.contributor.author	Weatherall, R https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7398-5275
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-09T00:42:05Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-09T00:42:05Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Management Learning, 2023
dc.identifier.issn	1350-5076
dc.identifier.issn	1461-7307
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/174122
dc.description.abstract	Tension between individual and communal interests is endemic in neoliberal universities. As a group of 10 academics from a Business School in an Australian University, we employed the collective research method of memory-work to investigate how collegiality is experienced and learnt by academics. Although collegiality is employed to enable productivity and efficiency in the neoliberal university, our diverse yet intersecting experiences of collegiality diverged from this institutional construct. We shared and explored our memories of collegiality together during the COVID-19 pandemic and learnt how collegiality emerges through acts of care which produce feelings of support, visibility, and equality, thereby improving our wellbeing at work. We propose the concept of ‘collective collegiality’ as sitting alongside institutionalised notions of collegiality, representing a ‘counter space’ to performative notions of collegiality and enabling us to learn from each other how to navigate, survive, and even thrive, in the neoliberal academy. By enacting the lived experience of collective collegiality, we bring to light alternatives to neoliberal workplace ideals which may foster more organic, flexible workplaces and ways of working together.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
dc.relation.ispartof	Management Learning
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/13505076231181670
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	Gavin, M., Grabowski, S., Hassanli, N., Hergesell, A., Jasovska, P., Kaya, E., Klettner, A., Small, J., Walker, C. N., & Weatherall, R. (2023). ‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy. Management Learning, 0(0). Copyright ©2023. DOI: 10.1177/13505076231181670
dc.subject	1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1503 Business and Management
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management
dc.subject.classification	3505 Human resources and industrial relations
dc.subject.classification	3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
dc.title	‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CBSD - Centre for Business and Sustainable Development
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dc.date.updated	2024-01-09T00:42:04Z
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Abstract:

Tension between individual and communal interests is endemic in neoliberal universities. As a group of 10 academics from a Business School in an Australian University, we employed the collective research method of memory-work to investigate how collegiality is experienced and learnt by academics. Although collegiality is employed to enable productivity and efficiency in the neoliberal university, our diverse yet intersecting experiences of collegiality diverged from this institutional construct. We shared and explored our memories of collegiality together during the COVID-19 pandemic and learnt how collegiality emerges through acts of care which produce feelings of support, visibility, and equality, thereby improving our wellbeing at work. We propose the concept of ‘collective collegiality’ as sitting alongside institutionalised notions of collegiality, representing a ‘counter space’ to performative notions of collegiality and enabling us to learn from each other how to navigate, survive, and even thrive, in the neoliberal academy. By enacting the lived experience of collective collegiality, we bring to light alternatives to neoliberal workplace ideals which may foster more organic, flexible workplaces and ways of working together.

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