Being 'REF-able'. The impact agenda. The student experience. University audit culture has infiltrated academic life, but how should we respond?

Drawing on a five-year Institutional Ethnography of UK universities, the author provides a feminist take on the neoliberal university and abolitionist reflections on audit culture.

For feminist and other critical academics, the interpretative power involved in audit processes provides an opportunity to collectively challenge and subvert, re-read and re-write institutions. This book challenges the myths and misinterpretations around how academic audit processes work, arguing that if we are complicit then we have agency to do them differently.

Órla Meadhbh Murray is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University, and Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. They are also co-founder of the Institutional Ethnography Network.