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Direct linkSpina, Nerida; Smithers, Kathleen; Harris, Jess; Mewburn, Inger – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
Despite the diversity of entry points into academia, little research exists examining the experiences and impact of precarious employment at different life stages. Drawing on interviews with 19 academics employed casually or on fixed-term contracts in Australian universities, this paper illustrates how precarious employment is experienced at…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Contracts, College Faculty, Researchers
Harris, Jess; Smithers, Kathleen; Spina, Nerida; Heffernan, Troy – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Internationally, changes to university funding arrangements have put pressure on the workloads of tenured academic staff and increased the reliance on casual academics to backfill teaching and research positions. Limited research has focused on the effects of casualisation on research academics and the institutions in which they work. This paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Researchers, Faculty Workload
