Events at The University of Manchester
  • University home
  • Events
  • Home
  • Exhibitions
  • Conferences
  • Lectures and seminars
  • Performances
  • Events for prospective students
  • Sustainability events
  • Family events
  • All Events

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professor David Mills - University of Oxford

image
Dates:3 December 2018
Times:16:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Speaker:Dr David Mills
See travel and contact information
Add to your calendar

Other events

  • In category "Seminar"
  • In group "(SoSS) Social Anthropology"
  • In group "(SoSS) Social Anthropology"
  • By School of Social Sciences

Social Anthropology Seminar

Monday, 3rd of December 2018

Professor David Mills

University Of Oxford

"One million PhDs”: Epistemic politics and doctoral education in Africa

In this paper I address the epistemic consequences of framing doctoral training as a productivity challenge. Amidst claims that Africa ‘needs’ another million PhDs, contemporary doctoral funding initiatives sustain colonial academic networks and mobility regimes. Asymmetric transnational collaborations channel funding and resources to a small research elite. The policy discourse of research ‘capacity building’ effaces the precarity of academic work and doctoral study in many universities, and contrasts with loud calls to decolonize and ‘transform’ African higher education. I use ethnographic portraiture to explore the implications of these epistemic bifurcations, and the value(s) of an anthropology of Higher Education.

Second Floor Boardroom 2.016 / 017

Arthur Lewis Building

Time 4:15 to 6:00pm

(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)

ALL WELCOME!

Speaker

Dr David Mills

Role: Speaker

Organisation: University of Oxford

Travel and Contact Information

Find event

2.016 /017 (Boardroom)
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester

Contact event

Val Lenferna

0161 275 4799

val.lenferna@manchester.ac.uk

Contact us

  • +44 (0) 161 306 6000

Find us

The University of Manchester
Oxford Rd
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK

Connect with the University

  • Facebook page for The University of Manchester
  • X (formerly Twitter) page for The University of Manchester
  • YouTube page for The University of Manchester
  • Instagram page for The University of Manchester
  • TikTok page for The University of Manchester
  • LinkedIn page for The University of Manchester

  • Privacy /
  • Copyright notice /
  • Accessibility /
  • Freedom of information /
  • Charitable status /
  • Royal Charter Number: RC000797
  • Close menu
  • Home
    • Featured events
    • Today's events
    • The Whitworth events
    • Manchester Museum events
    • Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre events
    • Martin Harris Centre events
    • The John Rylands Library events
    • Exhibitions
    • Conferences
    • Lectures and seminars
    • Performances
    • Events for prospective students
    • Sustainability events
    • Family events
    • All events