The compliant environment : conformity, data processing and increasing inequality in UK Higher Education

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the concept of institutions as compliant environments, using data to monitor and enforce compliance with a range of external policies and initiatives, using the particular example of UK higher education institutions. The paper differs from previous studies by bringing together a range of policies and uses of data covering different areas of higher education and demonstrating how they contribute to the common goal of compliance. Design/methodology/approach The compliant environment is defined in this context and the author has applied the preliminary model to a range of policies and cases that use and reuse data from staff and students in higher education. Findings The findings show that the focus on compliance with these policies and initiatives has resulted in a high level of surveillance of staff and students and a lack of resistance towards policies that work against the goals of education and academia. Research implications This is the first study to bring together the range of areas in which policy compliance and data processing are entwined in higher education. The study contributes to the academic literature on data and surveillance and on academic institutions as organisations. Practical implications The paper offers suggestions for resistance to compliance and data processing initiatives in higher education. Originality/value This is the first study to bring together the range of areas in which policy compliance and data processing are entwined in higher education. The study contributes to the academic literature on data and surveillance and on academic institutions as organisations

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Drug breakthrough offers hope to arthritis sufferers: qualitative analysis of medical research in UK newspapers

© 2016 The Authors. Health Expectations Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Background: Newspaper stories can impact behaviours, particularly in relation to research participation. It is therefore important to understand the narratives presented and ways in which these are received. Some work to date assumes journalism transmits existing medical knowledge to a passive audience. This study aimed to explore how newspaper articles present stories about medical research and how people interpret and use them. Design: Qualitative research methods were employed to analyse two data sets: newspaper articles relating to ‘rheumatoid arthritis’ and ‘research’ from UK local and national news sources; and existing transcripts of interviews with patients with rheumatoid arthritis and their carers. Results: Newspapers present a positive account of medical research, through a simple narrative with three essential components: an ‘innovation’ offers ‘hope’ in the context of ‘burden’. Patients frequently feature as passive subjects without attributed opinions. Few articles include patients’ experiences of research involvement. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis and their carers read articles about medical research critically, often with cynicism and drawing on other sources for interpretation. Conclusions: An understanding of the simple, positive narrative of medical research found in newspaper articles may enable researchers to gain mass media exposure for their work and challenge this typical style of reporting. The critical and cynical ways patients and carers read stories about medical research suggest that concerns about newspaper articles misinforming the public may be overstated, but any effect on research engagement is unknown. Newspaper articles rarely present patients’ views or their experiences of research, and this can be conceptualized as ‘depersonalization bias’

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