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Jun 25, 2022 · The article advises that researchers and employers must pay renewed attention to understanding how academic employment functions, and the form that precarious employment takes in actuality, rather than in the assumptions and familiar discourses about academic careers.
Jun 5, 2024 · This article explores an important aspect of academic precarity: the use of fixed-term contract researchers as factotums within universities.
May 19, 2022 · During the last 40 years, neoliberal reforms to the tertiary sector have led to the casualisation of academic labour and the emergence of an academic precariat in Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite the …
Dec 1, 2021 · In this article we explore the relationship between doctoral studies, precarious academic employment, the pandemic, and the disproportionate effects of the changes in higher education on women.
Jun 22, 2023 · Dynamics of difference that situate each member of the precariat within hierarchies must be addressed. Therefore, the following question guides this article: How is the academic precariat constructed vis-à-vis higher education institutions? What are the bases for the demands of the precariat?
Mar 11, 2022 · It studies a nationwide network of precarious researchers in Germany and deploys Frame Analysis to illuminate how the Network articulates diverse criticisms as parts of a coherent struggle against precarious academic work.
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This article focuses on the idea of scholarly work as cultural production to help understand how the tensions of precarious, early-career academic employment are articulated on a day-today basis in the context of pressures to efficiently produce monetizable 'deliverables.'
