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Volume 9, Issue 1
March 2023

Revitalising Universities in (Post-)COVID Times

Special Edition: A collection of papers from the Revitalising Universities in
(Post-)COVID Times Symposium held at University of Tokyo 2022

Guest Editor: Naomi Berman

ISSN 1835 – 2776
Cover Image: Photo by Samuel Berner on Unsplash

Revitalising Universities In (Post-)Covid Times

This special Issue presents a selection of papers presented at the Revitalising Universities in (Post-)COVID Times Symposium, held at the University of Tokyo, November 2022. This hybrid event gathered academics, educators, and experts from Australia, Japan and other regions to discuss the future of higher education as universities navigate pathways out of the pandemic. The experience of the pandemic may vary between countries based on cultures, expectations, and social organisation, therefore exploring a diversity of experiences and expectations as universities reopen offers a fruitful point of differentiation and comparison between globally diverse educational spaces. Echoing Connell’s original call to rethink the ‘good university’, COVID has thrown into question taken-for-granted notions about the position of universities, forcing a reframing of understandings around their social purpose. The pivot to online during the pandemic has highlighted the potential for digital technology to transform the way we teach and learn. Yet it has also become clear that such transformation does not come without its social, economic and wellbeing costs. Indeed, questions around whether the response measures introduced by universities across the globe early in the pandemic are still valid and viable need to be asked, as institutions decide what gets kept, thrown away, amplified, or diminished. The symposium provided a space for reflection on these questions as well as broader philosophical and theoretical deliberations on the ‘good university’.

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    Volume 9, Issue 1

    EDITORIAL – REVITALISING UNIVERSITIES IN (POST-)COVID TIMES
    Naomi Berman, Rochelle Deans
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.2

    REVIVING UNIVERSITIES FROM CRISIS
    Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.3

    THE UNIVERSITY AS A LIVING SYSTEM
    Stanley Frielick
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.4

    ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF VIRTUAL CULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE EVENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    Dina Grib, Ph.D.
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.5

    OUTREACH, EDUCATION, AND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: SUPPORT FOR GRIEVING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
    Dr Angela Matthews
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.6

    THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 AND LOCKDOWN ON STUDENTS’ LIVED REALITIES AT A SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY: ADOPTING A PEDAGOGY OF HOPE TO REALISE THE SOCIAL PURPOSE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    Venicia McGhie, Lutasha Abrahams-Ndesi, and Parveen Paleker
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.7

    REVITALISING UNIVERSITIES FROM AN ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT LENS
    Yoko Mori
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.8

    THE CALL: A SEMI-FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF STUDENT GRIEF DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC
    Alexandra Ridgway
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.9

    REVITALISING UNIVERSITIES FOR GRIEVING STUDENTS IN (POST-)COVID TIMES
    Alexandra Ridgway, Ashton Hay, Angela Matthews, Lauren J. Breen, and Illene Cupit
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    Volume 9, Issue 1.10

    ‘GOOD’ FORMS AND FUNCTIONS: HIGHER EDUCATION IN EMERGENCIES DOMAINS AND UNIVERSITY RESILIENCE
    Ian Teo, Brigid Freeman, Pete Leihy, and Dong Kwang Kim
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