Based on empirical research conducted with academic staff working on fixed-term contracts,
the article explores the subjective experience of anxiety in the UK's 'neoliberalising'higher …

The literature on higher education includes a substantial genre devoted to the theme of
crisis. While higher education is not alone in this, higher education researchers and writers …

What does it mean to attribute success to 'luck', but failure to personal deficiency? In
2015/16, more than 34 per cent of academic employees in UK higher education institutions …

This paper explores the forms of lived time that characterise a vocational relationship to
academic work. Drawing on interviews and surveys with over 30 academics who have left …

ABSTRACT Aim/Purpose This article offers a conceptual summary and critique of existing
literature on doctoral writing and emotion. The article seeks to intervene in current debates …

The purpose of this article is to explore how we might understand 'bad feelings' and their
place in academic activism. The article begins with a proposition that higher education …

Where and when do academics write and what are the feelings associated with it? Is the
pressure to write a fulfilling process of joyful exploration, or is it stressful and wracked with …

Research shows that due to rapidly changing higher education contexts, large numbers of
academics are overworked, stressed, and dispirited. This is exacerbated by the fact that …

Futures and fractures in feminist and queer higher education is concerned with educational
futures, in the sense of the futures of higher education (HE) as well as the future-orientated …

The higher education sector is characterised as competitive with heavy workloads and
increased scrutiny of performance (Barcan, 2018; Gill, 2014). Yet this culture remains a …