SECURITY REGIMES

The UK’s governing strategy and rational of security has begun to permeate into the culture and institutions of Higher Education (HE.) Despite the UK’s long democratic tradition, the prevailing security-logic, enacted through incidents of student monitoring, faculty surveillance, PREVENT and the ‘hostile environment’ policy, for example, indicate an increasing instability of the University’s core principles of institutional autonomy, academic freedom, and inclusivity. 

There are 3 distinct areas of securitisation (glossary here) that this project aims to address:

1) Faculty and Student Monitoring and Surveillance

2) Anti-Risk Policies and Measures

3) Punitive Action Against Politically Active Faculty and Students

Importantly, these state encroachments against HE autonomy have often been enacted under the name of anti-radicalisation, homeland security, counterterrorism and modernising the university’s strategic priorities.