For more than 20 years there have been growing and widely expressed concerns that
teaching is not sufficiently rewarded and recognized in universities, particularly in …

Precarious work is associated with and characterizes the effects of neoliberal policy—the
transference of economic risk onto workers, the erosion of workers' rights, the flexibilization …

Part-time teachers form a growing proportion of the global Higher Education (HE) workforce.
Their backgrounds can vary from Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) teaching for the first …

This paper is based on findings from an email interview study with 20 academics (17
women, 3 men) in the UK on short-term, insecure or 'casualised'contracts. The paper …

An increasingly large number of courses in Canadian postsecondary institutions are taught
by contingent instructors who hold full-or part-time positions for contractually limited time …

In neoliberal times the nature of academic employment in universities has shifted
dramatically. Precarious (fixed-term and casual) academic employment has proliferated …

In this essay, we theorize the fragmented nature of the alienation experienced by
management scholars working in neoliberal universities. We argue that management …

Drawing on two international research projects, Reconstructing Relationships in Higher
Education: Challenging Agendas looks behind formal organisational structures and …

Internationally, changes to academic work are a response to the massification of higher
education and a changed and changing higher education context. The majority of these …

There is a world-wide shortage of nursing faculty, which is complicated by the need for
French, English, and bilingual professors in Canada. The purpose of this qualitative study …