This book challenges the notion that static principles of inclusive practice can be embedded and measured in Higher Education. It introduces the original concept of Postdigital Positionality as a dynamic lens through which inclusivity policies in universities might be reimagined.

Acknowledgements List of Figures Author’s Positionality Statement Prologue: Opening the Airing Cupboard from All Sides  1 Virtual Airing Cupboards  2 Postdigital Airing Cupboards  3 Airing New Postdigital Policy Discourse  4 Viral Discourse in the Virtual Airing Cupboard  5 The Construction of Language  6 Positionalities  7 Cancel Culture  8 Inclusivity  9 Inclusion in Policy Discourse and a Need for Postdigital Dialogue  10 Inclusion in Decisions about our Data Requires Some ‘Re-plumbing’  11 McDonaldisation of a Virus  12 Postdigital Inclusivity  13 Can Universities Really ‘Capture’, ‘Measure’ or ‘Deliver’ Inclusivity?  14 Inclusivity Is Not a Static Concept That Institutions Can Control  15 New Ethics and Ownership Questions Introduction  1 Postdigital Positionality  2 Covid-19  3 Covid-19 Positionalities  4 A ‘New Normal’ for Institutions, Different ‘New Normals’ for Each of Us, or Both?  5 HE Policies That Self-Isolate  6 Precarity, Disadvantage and the Rationalisation of Academic Labour  7 Politics, Ethics and Human Attributes in the Virtual Airing Cupboard  8 Inclusive Practice for Algorithmic Identities  9 Rationality or Positionality  10 New Postdigital Understandings of Interpersonal Relations and Inclusivity  11 The Debate to Come 1 Positionality in a Postdigital Context  1 Why Is Postdigital Positionality a Matter for Everyone?  2 Positionality in a Traditional Sense  3 Postdigital Positionality in a Pandemic 2 Rationalisation of Higher Education and the Postdigital Context  1 The Shared Political Economic Spaces of Technology and Culture  2 Airing Debate on Postdigital Positionality 3 Postdigital Positionality as a Learner  1 Learning, Experience and Inclusion as Personal and Embodied, Not Rationally Audited  2 Resisting the Iron Cage of ‘the Student Experience’ 4 Postdigital Positionality as a Teacher  1 Measuring What Exactly, and Why?  2 Finding New, Personal and Plural Starting Points from Which to Teach 5 Postdigital Positionality as a Researcher  1 The McPolicy of Research Excellence  2 Scientific Research, Crises and Convergences 6 Postdigital Positionality as a Leader and Policy Maker  1 What Is Shaping the University and What Might the University Now Shape?  2 Ecological Approaches towards Policy That Begin from Positionality Not Rationality 7 Conclusions on Postdigital Futures  1 When Biological Environments Change Social Arrangements Need to Alter Too Glossary References Index