The Im/possibilities of Imagining University Futures: Leadership and Discourses of Utopia and Dystopia in the Liminal Space of a Pink Pandemic

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - 18:00 to 19:00

We are delighted to invite you to provide a recording of Professor Jillian Blackmore's (Deakin University) recent talk. You can listen to the recording here

The vulnerability of underfunded universities reliant on international students generally, and Australian universities in particular as the ‘canaries’ in a global higher education sector, has been exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though policy reversals have been swift and interventionist promising something different, what lessons have been learnt about the relationship between the state, universities and scientific expertise and leadership and where do issues of equity fit? What does the pandemic restructuring of the sector hold for post-pandemic university futures and for gender equity?