Australian Universities’ Review

3 Letter from the editor

Ian Dobson

4 Vale Lynn Meek

Leo Goedegebuure

6 V L Meek

Arthur O’Neill

Articles

7 Restructures, redundancies and workforce downsizing: Implications for Australian higher education sector post COVID-19

Alison Owens, Susan Loomes, Margot Kearns & Peter Mahoney

The reach of COVID-19 continues to be immense. Institutions highly dependent on international students in particular have been impacted.

15 COVID-19 disruption to research and research training in Australia: Gender and Career-Stage Inequalities

Alison M. Downham Moore

COVID-19’s impact on research has been monumental. This paper examines the disruptions caused and considers the longterm impacts.

27 How the Kingdom of Bhutan played the Australian Government – and won

Joanne Barker

The Endeavour international scholarship scheme was a winner for the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan. Was it a winner for Australia?

33 Zoomed – A personal reflection on the long, slow destruction of Australia’s university system

Louise Johnson

COVID’s impact has often been highly personal. This personal reflection wonders whether COVID became a smokescreen for our new neoliberal universities.

40 Rethinking universities’ foreign interference obligations: Lessons from the High Court

Matt Simpson & Andrew Tarnowskyj

The Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act (2018) requires those who engage with Australian political systems on behalf of a foreign principal to register. How could this impact universities?

50 Occupational health and safety (OHS) and integrated management: A desktop-based review across higher education OHS, business and general management courses in Australia

Nektarios Karanikas & Lilyan Tyson

This paper is a review of OHS and business and management programs in Australia and considers ways the career of future OHS professionals could be enhanced.

61 Hybrid-flexible (HyFlex) subject delivery and implications for teaching workload: A ‘small data’ analysis of one academic’s first-hand experience in 2021 and 2022

Roger Dawkins

COVID-19 has changed aspects of how universities provide teaching. Hybrid-flexible teaching is one outcome of this, being a way to simultaneously deliver a subject in three modes.

Book Reviews

70 Overcoming Managerialism? How??

Overcoming Managerialism: Power, Authority and Rhetoric at Work, by Robert Spillane and Jean-Etienne Joullié

Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer and Catherine Link

73 Intelligent design??

How to Be a Design Academic, by Alethea Blackler and Evonne Miller (Eds.)

Reviewed by Neil Mudford

77 Organising during COVID-19

Organising during the Coronavirus Crisis – The Contradictions of Our Digital Lives, by Mike Healy

Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer

79 A life in the academy

My Accidental Career, by Brenda Niall

Reviewed by Bob Birrell

81 Are universities a lost cause?

The Dark Side of Academia: How Truth Is Suppressed, by The Secret Professor

Reviewed by Brian Martin

82 Destructive Management Leadership: a review essay

Destructive Leadership and Management Hypocrisy: Advances in Theory and Practice, by Selin Metin Camgöz & Özge Tayfur Ekmekci

Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer

88 AI, AI, Oh??

Future superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a makeor-break century, by Elise Bohan

Reviewed by Neil Mudford

93 Universities and the common good

Transforming Universities in The Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good, by Richard Hil, Kristen Lyons & Fern Thompsett

Reviewed by Natalie Osborne, Griffith University

95 Crisis! What crisis?

Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good, by Richard Hil, Kristen Lyons & Fern Thompsett

Reviewed by Eva Crowson and Sharon Stein, University of British Columbia