The magic of ordinary rather than extraordinary resilience?
Higher education and longer-term pandemic impacts
John R. Bryson (University of Birmingham)
Lauren Andres (University College London)
Aksel Ersoy (TU Delft - Urban Development Management)
Louise Reardon (University of Birmingham)
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Abstract
COVID-19 initially closed universities forcing rapid adoption of online teaching. This chapter reflects on pandemic recovery in the context of higher education and explores some of the longer-term impacts that the pandemic has had on academic practice. Recovery is a complex and highly differentiated process and is founded upon resilience that is configured from ordinary rather than extraordinary phenomena. These processes include established social relationships based on extant friendship networks combined with investments in digital skills and related infrastructures. The chapter explores pandemic legacies and higher education focussing on implications for practice as this relates to teaching, learning, research and administration.