Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other
Examining Experiences of Contract Researchers in the Academy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4097476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Harris (0000-0003-4584-6993, School of Education, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia), Kathleen Smithers (0000-0001-7301-5658, Charles Sturt University, corresponding author), Nerida Spina (0000-0002-2923-0104, Queensland University of Technology), Troy Heffernan (0000-0002-8156-622X, Manchester Institute of Education, Univeristy of Manchester, Manchester, UK) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-48 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2022.2105831 |
| OpenAlex | W4288068133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 29 |
Internationally, changes to university funding arrangements have put pressure on the workloads of tenured academic staff and increased the reliance on casual academics to backfill teaching and research positions. Limited research has focused on the effects of casualisation on research academics and the institutions in which they work. This paper draws on interviews with 26 contract researchers, who have worked in the US, UK, and Australia. Drawing on the construct of ‘Othering’, identified in our interviews we explore the work of academics employed casually or on contract. Using a Foucauldian lens to make visible and disrupt regimes of truth about academic work, we found that there are numerous ways in which institutional discourses and practices marginalise casual academics and conceal the challenges they face. We argue that the disruption of dominant discourses about academic work is one way of supporting academics whose employment is insecure
Casual · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Management and Organizational Studies
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Gender equity in academic knowledge production
Working at the level above
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Academic casualisation and precarity
Decasualisation and the universities accord
Reimagining the academic landscape
Collegiality in the complex ecosystem of research in academia
Employees in change
Just because you are staying does not mean you are 'stuck
The rise of the pro-sessional
The Entrepreneurial Self
The Precariat
Academic Capitalism and the New Economy
Discipline and Punish
‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher
Performativities and fabrications in the education economy
Gender Trouble
Alienation and Freedom
Permanent contracts and job satisfaction in academia
The Exploitation of Academic Work
Introduction
The archaeology of knowledge
Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity
The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity
The Research Assistant
The Tenured 'Core' and the Tenuous 'Periphery
The ethics of multiple authorship
Academic superheroes? A critical analysis of academic job descriptions
Quality of working life of academics and researchers in the UK
Working to return to employment
Precarious, Informalizing, and Flexible Work
Being and Nothingness
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |