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An Investigation of Sessional Staff Support, Development, and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Australian Universities
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Vivien McComb; Narelle Eather – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Sessional academic staff form most of the teaching staff cohort in Australian universities. The available literature supports that this important staff cohort often experience precarious and insecure work, restricted access to training, support and development, and limited opportunities for career progression (compared to their colleagues in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adjunct Faculty, Job Security, Faculty Development
An Australian Response to Michael Bérubé
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Frances, Raelene – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This article supports Bérubé's conclusion regarding the intellectual health of humanities scholarship. However, it argues that the case of "contingent faculty"--or academics with short-term or casual contracts--is in many respects different in Australia to the situation he outlines for the US. Whilst a variety of funding pressures have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Humanities, Scholarship
McUniversities Revisited: A Comparison of University and McDonald's Casual Employee Experiences in Australia
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Nadolny, Andrew; Ryan, Suzanne – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The McDonaldization of higher education refers to the transformation of universities from knowledge generators to rational service organizations or "McUniversities". This is reflected in the growing dependence on a casualized academic workforce. The article explores the extent to which the McDonaldization thesis applies to universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Commercialization, Employees
Using Workforce Strategy to Address Academic Casualisation: A University of Newcastle Case Study
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Crawford, Tina; Germov, John – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
Casual and sessional academic staff have traditionally been on the margins of institutional life despite the expansion of this cohort across the university sector. This paper details a project to address this lack of recognition through a workforce strategy to engage, support and effectively manage this often neglected cohort of the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force, College Faculty, Part Time Employment
Casualization of Academics in the Australian Higher Education: Is Teaching Quality at Risk?
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Lama, Tek; Joullié, Jean-Etienne – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2015
This article explores the issues casual academics face in Australia and whether these pose risks to teaching quality. The logic of the rampant casualisation in Australian universities is exposed first (i.e., mainly flexibility and cost saving to offset drops in government funding), followed by a discussion on the theoretical risks casualisation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Cost Effectiveness
A Message from The Chalk Face--What Casual Teaching Staff Tell Us They Want To Know, Access and Experience
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Brown, Natalie R.; Kelder, Jo-Anne; Freeman, Brigid; Carr, Andrea R. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2013
The University of Tasmania established a project in 2009 to investigate the particular needs of casual teaching staff, identify strategies to improve access to information, and facilitate a consistent approach to employment, induction, development and recognition. The project was managed by the university learning and teaching centre, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Teacher Surveys