The academic career path has been thoroughly destabilised by the precarious practices of the neoliberal university.
It is an increasingly difficult time to begin an academic
career. The pressures of the REF, casualization and adjunctification of
teaching and the disappearance of research funding are enormous
obstacles academics face. Sydney Calkin
looks at how academics have in many ways become model neoliberal
subjects. How might we effectively challenge the growing acceptance of
the unpaid, underpaid, zero hours work within universities?
A ‘job’ posting circulated on Twitter and Facebook in July 2013, provoking a mix of shock, anger, and hopelessness among academics, particularly young aspiring academics.
Interesting commentary follows the article on LSEImpactBlog.
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