COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration.

COVID-19 has caused the closure of university campuses around the world and migration of all learning, teaching, and assessment into online domains. The impacts of this on the academic community as frontline providers of higher education are profound. In this article, we report the findings from a survey of  = 1148 academics working in universities in the United Kingdom (UK) and representing all the major disciplines and career hierarchy.