Precariousness, together with its cognate terms (eg precarity, precarious work, precarious
workers, the precariat and precarious life), has become a significant theme in employment …

The aim of this study was to provide an integrated review of evidence published in the past
decade around professional development for sessional staff in higher education. Using the …

The higher education sector in Ireland has undergone major changes under the effect of
neoliberalism including severe budget cuts, transfer of research funding to external …

This paper examines the ethnicity of academic scholars employed by New Zealand's eight
universities, with a particular focus on Pasifika academics. The paper discusses how …

This book considers how a culture of 'competitive accountability'in UK higher education
produces multiple tensions, contradictions and paradoxes that are destabilizing and …

The Education Ecology of Universities: Integrating Learning, Strategy and the Academy Page
1 The Education Ecology of Universities Many universities around the world are finding that …

The deregulation of working time has been occurring over recent decades. Academia is one
of the many industries that can be characterised by a long hours work culture and …

This article explores the impact of COVID-19 on the Australian higher education system. It
analyses how the contradictions of Australian higher education, driven by expanding …

Over the past 20 years the university sector in many countries has experienced intense and
wide-ranging change. Rapid growth in student numbers, increased scrutiny of teaching and …

Internationally, changes to university funding arrangements have put pressure on the
workloads of tenured academic staff and increased the reliance on casual academics to …