Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity

Joanna Williams is Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK and Education Editor for Spiked Online. She has previously published Consuming Higher Education: Why Learning Can't be Bought.

• Introduction: Academic Freedom in an Era of Conformity1. Free to be Critical2. Conformity in the Academy3. Criticality within the Disciplines4. Disciplines Under Attack5. Uncritical Theory6. Impact of Feminism7. From Academic Freedom to Academic JusticeConclusions

"Joanna Williams, in her powerful study, argues that academic freedom has become at best a second-order value in our universities. ... Any academic who fails to read Williams' book will remain an unreflective conformist or, to put it another way, will not be an academic." (Dennis Hayes, British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 67 (2), April, 2017)