Power is everywhere. But what is it and how does it infuse personal and institutional relationships in higher education? This book takes a critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities.

Power is everywhere. But what is it and how does it infuse personal and institutional relationships in higher education? "Power, Knowledge and the Academy: The Institutional is Political" takes a close-up and critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities. Chapters focus on specific locations in which power shapes personal and institutional knowledge including student-supervisor relationships, research teams, networking, the Research Assessment Exercise in the UK, and literature reviews.

Notes on Contributors - Introduction - Power and the Unconscious in Doctoral Student-Supervisor Relationships
H.Lucey &
C.Rogers - Power and the PhD Journey: 'Getting In' and 'Getting On'
K.Almack &
H.Churchill - Ambivalent Positions: Ethnicity and Working in our 'Own Communities'
K.Mand &
S.Weller - Interweaving
Academic and Professional Power in Higher Education
L.Bell &
M.Birch - Power Relationships in Research Teams
M.Mauthner &
L.Bell - Making the Right Connections: 'Knowledge' and Power in Academic Networking
V.Gillies &
P.Aldred - Representing Academic Knowledge: Power and Responsibility in Reviewing the Literature
J.Ribbens Mccarthy - Measuring What's Valued or Valuing What's Measured? Knowledge Production and the Research Assessment Exercise
T.Miller &
P.Aldred - Feminism, the Relational Micro-Politics of Power and Research Management in Higher Education in Britain
N.Mauthner &
R.Edwards - Index