Creating space and time for feminist approaches in higher education

SynopsisThis article discusses the ways that two academics, working closely together for many years, created space and time for feminist approaches within research and course leadership. Firstly we consider institutional constraints including the spatial and temporal restructuring of higher education. Secondly, we explore different meanings of higher education and the space for feminist practice. Thirdly we share the ways that feminism informed our daily work at a local level. The article draws on course leader reflections related to a particular week in January 2002 (sourced from personal diary records), a researcher log and related sections of a PhD thesis. The article argues that the uniqueness of feminist practice in higher education becomes most visible at a local level and that this practice emerges from powerful arrangements and relations of space and time, both internal and external to higher education.