Damien Shannon is a DPhil candidate in Economic and Social History at New College, Oxford.
In this episode, Nick and Damien speak about:
- Damien's experience in suing Oxford University over its admissions criteria, which initially prevented him from taking up his degree place on financial grounds
- Educational access and equity
- Damien's current DPhil research on the abolition of tenure at British universities and the impact on research outcomes and long term institutional performance
- The history of universities as institutions from their earliest roots in Bologna and Oxford
- Intellectual freedom and the ideal conditions for free inquiry
- Sir Keith Joseph and the economic and philosophical foundations of the Thatcher administration
- The corporatization of universities and modern employment conditions for academics