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Photo credits: Shuana Niessen

 “Public Engagement and the Politics of Evidence in an Age of Neoliberalism and Audit Culture”

July 23-25, 2015

University of Regina

This symposium will examine accelerating trends in higher education: neoliberalism, the politics of evidence, and the audit culture. In an age in which value is often equated with accountancy, we will examine the place in the academy for public intellectualism, community-engagement, Indigenous epistemologies, and how the impact of our scholarship is, and ought to be, justly assessed. Invited presenters will provoke lively discussion, but going beyond discussion, and blurring the lines between presenter and audience member, participants will be invited to engage actively with other presenter/participants in attendance for the purpose of effecting changes at their home institutions. Opportunities will be available for reconsidering and strategizing academic issues such as faculty criteria documents, measurement rankings, traditional impact factors, and other academic matters affected by the politics of austerity, neoliberalism, and new management technologies. Action will also be encouraged through submissions to a special issue of in education (the University of Regina Faculty of Education’s journal), potentially collaborating on an edited book, TED-style dissemination videos, producing a list of recommendations, developing examples of inclusive faculty criteria documents, possibly developing a community impact factor as an alternative to journal impact factor metrics, and further actions as collectively discussed at the symposium.

Questions to be explored include:

What counts as scholarship and why?

How do we achieve accountability in an age of accountancy?

How do we measure research impact, (i.e., journal impact factor vs community and policy impact)?

Impact for whom?

Who and how do we determine whose evidence and what research is legitimate?

What can be done? How do we effect change to university practices?

The complete video archive of the symposium presentations can be found under the “Video Archives” dropdown menu.

Video credits: Joe Norris and Brad MacDonald