The entrepreneurial university has been tasked with making an impact. This collection presents professional-personal reflections on research experience and interpretative accounts of navigating fieldwork and broader publics, politics and practices of (dis)engagement primarily through a feminist, queer and gender studies lens.

Introduction: The Entrepreneurial University: Engaging Publics, Intersecting Impacts; Yvette Taylor PART I: (NON)ACADEMIC SUBJECT: OCCUPATIONAL ACTIVISM 1. Academia without Walls? Multiple Belongings and the Implications of Feminist and Queer Political Engagement; Ana Cristina Santos 2. Dancing on the Intersections of (Un)Acceptability: Reflections/flextions on Disengagement in Higher Education; Rachela Colosi 3. Participation Beyond Boundaries: Working as, with and for Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans Communities; Kath Browne and Leela Bakshi 4. Rules of Engagement beyond the Gates: Negotiating and Capitalising on Student 'Experience'; Victoria G Mountford 5. Queer Business: Towards Queering the Business School; Nick Rumens PART II: MEDIATED (DIS)ENGAGEMENTS AND CREATIVE PUBLICS 6. Engaging with 'Impact' Agendas? Reflections on Storytelling as Knowledge Exchange; Francesca Stella 7. The Practice of Transnational Affective Encounter in Contemporary Visual Arts; Laura Lovin 8. Creativity, Community and Participation: Researching Spaces of Connectivity with 'Creative Publics'; Yvonne Robinson 9. Creative Agents and the Visual: Affects and Embodiment in the Research Process; Ava Kanyeredzi, Paula Reavey and Steven D. Brown PART III: ENDURING INTERSECTIONS, PROVOKING DIRECTIONS 10. Provocations, Politics and the (Im)Possibility of Counter-Public(s); Deirdre Conlon, Nicholas Gill, Imogen Tyler, and Ceri Oeppen 11. Dialogue or Duel?: A Critical Reflection on the (Gendered) Politics of Engaging and Impacting; Jocey Quinn, Kim Allen, Sumi Hollingworth, Uvanney Maylor, Jayne Osgood and Anthea Rose 12. Mixing Race: A Public Affair?; Chamion Caballero 13. Placing Research: 'City Publics' and the 'Public Sociologist'; Yvette Taylor and Michelle Addison 14. Safe Feminist Spaces: Reflections about the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers-New Brunswick; Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias