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Hayes S
; Jopling M
; Hayes D
; Westwood A
; Tuckett A
; Barnett R
Postdigit Sci Educ
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): 242-260
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As agendas for data-driven measures of excellence dominate policy in UK Higher
Education (HE), we argue that the generic structure of national policy frameworks
virtually silences regional voices. This furthers a territorially agnostic
discourse about universities, downplays institutional history and purpose, risks
concealing innovative practices, and fails to tackle entrenched inequalities. In
response, we point to the value of live, place-based debate in HE institutions to
highlight distributional inequity, raise local voices and connect these with
national policy. Yet even as we compiled this article about HE debate, the
Covid-19 pandemic took hold globally, cancelling face-to-face meetings, by
necessity. We therefore draw on a postdigital perspective, as we share our
individual dialogues in support of debate, via collective writing, against this
new backdrop of social distancing and widespread uncertainty. We may not
currently be able to convene our Midlands HE Policy Network (MHEPN) debates in
person, but we can voice the essential part that regional universities play in
connecting global technological and biological change, with local social
projects, citizens and industry. Postdigital theory offers one route to
understanding that Covid-19 does not sit apart from other political economic
challenges in HE and beyond, that we need to debate simultaneously.