Interesting response to my research questions particularly around the behavioural models I . One supervisor advised me just to drop them, the other agreed that I could but that in doing so I was confining myself to an “objectivist, modernist, masculine, centrist viewpoint”.   That seems to me a fair criticism, but if those are the characteristics of the dominant models of universities, why wouldn’t I base my research around them? What, for example would a subjectivist, post-modernist, feminist, and dispersed university look like. I can see how I might begin to imagine one, but I’m not aware that any actually exist! I’m a little bit nervous about basing my research around an imaginary conceptual framework.

Anyway, I need to get the letters sent off today. The biggest hurdle of all – getting access to the field sites.