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Leaving the Ivory Tower

A Point of View

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The Art of What We Do

When i became a professor in the 19 seventies, only five % of u k. Professors were women, and now it's 28%. But that's not nearly enough progress for 50 years, is it? She said. And as for black professors, the data from the higher education statistics agency says that's still less than one percent. That looks like a fat old, triple glazed glass ceiling to me. I showed her files full of spread sheets with scores on them. That's what an audit culture looks like. It has eroded trust. Now we have to measure everything all the time. Our research, its impact, our colleagues their impact, our students, their achievements, our

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