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The dark side of institutional research

Professor Sir David Watson is Director of the MBA in Higher Education Management at the Institute of Education. Between 1990 and 2005 he was Vicechancellor of the University of Brighton. He is co-author, with Elizabeth Maddison, of the first overall account of institutional research in the UK, Managing Institutional Self-Study (Open University Press, 2005). In 2008 he was made a National Teaching Fellow. This article is based on his keynote address to the Institutional Research Conference, Beyond the Hinterlands, held at Southampton Solent University in June 2008.