Open AccessHow My COVID-19 Disruption Became My Privileged Boom Time
Author(s) -
Noah Riseman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
portal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1449-2490
DOI - 10.5130/pjmis.v17i1-2.7491
Subject(s) - covid-19 , boom , pandemic , virology , medicine , geology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , oceanography , disease , pathology
I was meant to spend the first half of 2020 on research study leave at the University of Cologne. My partner and I rushed back to Australia in mid-March, disrupting our plans and forcing me into a new working paradigm. Yet, the disruption wound up sending me into one of the most productive periods of my career. In this article, I reflect on how my privileges - both earned and unearned - have contributed to a boom in my academic work at the same time that it has wreaked havoc on the entire sector. I also reflect on how Covid-19 has not caused problems in higher education per se, but rather has exposed and exacerbated inequalities across the sector.