Richard Hil (adjunct professor, Griffith University) is back, with a guide to achieving the post-neo liberal academy. Connoisseurs of campus crisis will remember Dr Hil for his analysis of university unhappiness Whackademia (2012) and now, with UoQ sociologist Kristen Lyons, he suggests ways of subverting the “corporate takeover of universities.”

“Many of the acts of resistance we have identified aim to enable academics to remain in the system—not simply to ‘survive’ but to change that system,” they write in a new paper, circulated by the NTEU.

They propose, among many others:

*          “chipping away at neoliberal practices through committees and other sites of governance

*          avoidance tactics such as simply not attending meetings

*          set lower performance targets in workload negotiations, argue for alternative decision-making processes, defend those on contracts, insist on tea breaks and staff meetings, and turn off their computers and go home.