CGHE Webinar 222

“This could be the turning point”: rethinking times and spaces of academic work as a result of Covid-19

Date: Thursday, 1 July 2021 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
  • Melina Aarnikoivu, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä
  • Terhi Nokkala, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä
  • Taina Saarinen, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä

Event Materials

This event is now archived and we are pleased to provide the following event media and assets, along with the original event overview.

In this presentation, we discuss the temporal and spatial materialities of academic work, as they unfold in the new settings of full homes, empty offices, and different levels of isolation from colleagues and university premises. In the one year trajectory that our longitudinal data currently covers, the meanings and functions attached to familiar places and times shift, as do the range of emotions that the new situation evokes. These observations compel us to ask whether the pandemic caused the academia to change, or whether it merely made the existing materialities and the ensuing (in)equities visible. Our presentation is based on a longitudinal online interview study of academics based in Europe and North America during the corona pandemic. The first group consisted of four early-career academics, the second group of three senior academics, and the final group was a mixture of both early-career and senior researchers. In addition to the interview rounds, we, the authors of the study, met 13 times before, in between, and after the interviews to reflect on them, thus bringing elements of reflexive team ethnography into the study.

CGHE webinars are fully open to participants. They are interactive, enabling attendees to speak directly in the webinar, ask questions of speakers when called in by the chair and see all other participants. At any time you can communicate directly with others, either all together or on a one-to-one basis, through the webinar Chat.

Event Materials

This event is now archived and we are pleased to provide the following event media and assets, along with the original event overview.

Other upcoming events

CGHE Webinar
Tuesday, 29 October 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
All times BST. Hybrid, Zoom and in the Mawby seminar room, Kellogg College. Registration required
Anke Schwittay
CGHE Webinar
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Hybrid - Online and in Seminar Room E, Education Department. Registration required
Gritt Nielsen
CGHE webinar series
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
All times BST. Zoom, registration required
Howard Davies
Elizabeth Colucci
CGHE Webinar
Tuesday, 5 November 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
All times BST. Zoom, registration required
CGHE Webinar
Tuesday, 12 November 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
All times GMT. Zoom, registration required
Yusuf Serunkuma
CGHE Webinar
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
All times BST. Zoom, registration required (Hybrid)
Dr Iryna Kushnir