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From the ‘right stuff’ to the ‘real stuff’: a case study
Dr Tansy Jessop, University of WinchesterExploring the hinterlands: Southampton Solent
25 June 2008
‘Right stuff’
• Instrumental• Externally driven• Functional• Polite• Narrow focus• Superficial• Fragmented
‘Real stuff’
• Relational• Research driven• Influential• Confrontational• Targeted focus• Meaningful• University-wide
Research Methodology
• Exploratory• Secondary data• Personal reflection• Action research• Appreciative Inquiry
Three “success variables”
1. People, systems, processes2. Research, evidence, academic
street ‘cred’3. Getting a groundswell: knowledge,
politics, action
People, Systems, Processes
• Funding posts, funding projects• Streamlined, equitable, fast track• Networks • Steering groups• Collegial social process• Democratic, discursive committee meetings• Process orientation
Not just the usual suspects
Research, evidence, street ‘cred’
• Research focus• Inside out Vs outside in• Student experience• Institutional priorities Vs creative ideas• Value of different methods• External benchmarking• “Warts and all”
Knowledge, politics, action
• Distribution is not enough• Implicit to direct action points• Politics with a small ‘p’• Presentation strategies• Clustered themes• Commissioned research
The politics of Action Points – claiming the territory
Conclusions
“Spam in a can”
“Sending a man up to doa monkeys work?”
“We know more abouthow to fly this thing thananyone else!”
• “Who is gonna control this thing from here on out”
• “We’ve got to stick together on this deal”
“You know what makes
this bird go up?FUNDING makes thisbird go up.”
“He’s right. No bucks,No Buck Rogers”