Table of Contents

1. Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education, and Precarious Times, Tanya Fitzgerald (University of Western Australia, Australia), Helen M Gunter (University of Manchester, UK) and Jon Nixon (Middlesex University, UK) 2. When Intellectual Leadership Dies: Critical Voice vs. Self-Censorship in Precarious Universities, Anatoly Oleksiyenko (Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 3. Governance of the Marketized University in Precarious Times, Steven Jones (University of Manchester, UK) 4. The Geopolitics of International Higher Education, Transnational Intellectual Collaboration and Leadership, Ly Thi Tran, Jill Blackmore, and Diep Thi Bich Nguyen (Deakin University, Australia) 5. On the Abolition of Intellectual Leadership, Richard Hall (De Montfort University, UK) 6. Glass Cliff and Other Factors Facilitating Women’s Leadership in Irish Higher Education, Pat O’Connor (University College Dublin, Ireland) 7. Thinking Plurality: Academic Leadership, Precarious Institutions and Collegial Bodies as Member States in an Epistemic Union, Sharon Rider (Uppsala University, Sweden) 8. Enabling Intellectual Leadership in Precarious Times: The Contribution of the Professional Doctorate, Elizabeth Parr (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Janet Lord (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Stephen M Rayner (University of Manchester, UK) and Rachel Stenhouse (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9. Crises and the Emergence of ‘Estates’ within Australian Universities, James Waghorne (University of Melbourne, Australia) 10. The Need for Critical Intellectual Leadership in US Community Colleges during Precarious Times, David L. Levinson (Connecticut State Community College, USA) and Kathleen R. Rowell (Sinclair Community College in Dayton, USA) 11. Thinking Critically about Intellectual Leadership in Precarious Times, Tanya Fitzgerald (University of Western Australia, Australia), Helen M Gunter (University of Manchester, UK) and Jon Nixon (Middlesex University, UK) Index

Promotional Information

Intellectual leadership is under threat from the authoritarian turn in western style democracies, and this book presents research contributions from leading edge thinkers regarding higher education and research expertise.

About the Author

Tanya Fitzgerald is Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Helen M. Gunter is Professor of Educational Policy at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Jon Nixon was Honorary Professor in the Center for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, UK.