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Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets
This Handbook addresses the changing nature of academic labour markets, as they respond to moving university goals and developments in the measurement of research and teaching. Experts examine case studies from across the Global North and South and consider key issues such as equity, diversity, cross-border employment, and the precarity of academic labour.
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This Handbook addresses the changing nature of academic labour markets, as they respond to moving university goals and developments in the measurement of research and teaching. Experts examine case studies from across the Global North and South and consider key issues such as equity, diversity, cross-border employment, and the precarity of academic labour.
The Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets highlights how national university systems interact with international policies. Chapters include in-depth research on the decline in permanent, tenured employment and the increase in temporary, insecure work, culminating in uncertain or non-existent career paths for many academics. Contributing authors discuss intersectional initiatives to increase the gender and ethnic diversity of academic staff, as well as complex topics such as third space work, for-profit institutions, online education, entrepreneurial gig research, work-life balance and the role of trade unions. Ultimately, this Handbook argues for new approaches to organising academic work, reinforcing the priority of serving the public good.
Comprehensive and innovative, this Handbook is a crucial read for scholars of higher education leadership and management, education policy, labour policy, and sociology of work. It will also benefit university staff and researchers considering and reflecting on their own careers.
The Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets highlights how national university systems interact with international policies. Chapters include in-depth research on the decline in permanent, tenured employment and the increase in temporary, insecure work, culminating in uncertain or non-existent career paths for many academics. Contributing authors discuss intersectional initiatives to increase the gender and ethnic diversity of academic staff, as well as complex topics such as third space work, for-profit institutions, online education, entrepreneurial gig research, work-life balance and the role of trade unions. Ultimately, this Handbook argues for new approaches to organising academic work, reinforcing the priority of serving the public good.
Comprehensive and innovative, this Handbook is a crucial read for scholars of higher education leadership and management, education policy, labour policy, and sociology of work. It will also benefit university staff and researchers considering and reflecting on their own careers.
Critical Acclaim
‘Glenda Strachan and her impressive contributors have created one of the key resources on higher education in the 2020s. Intellectual labour is the heart of higher education and the faculty is growing in most countries. However, working conditions, autonomy and agency are limited and destabilised within neoliberal systems as competitive and performative universities put their own organisational interests ahead of education, students, scholarship and research. Providing wide-ranging and in-depth country studies, this Handbook analyses these trends and also investigates how individuals and groups still find ways to honour their vocation, collaborate with each other and deepen their work. There is much to learn from here.’
– Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK
‘The Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets explores multiple aspects of the academic profession and academic labour markets in a time of transition. The chapters, largely from a critical perspective, provide both general perspectives and case studies.’
– Philip G. Altbach, Boston College, US
– Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK
‘The Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets explores multiple aspects of the academic profession and academic labour markets in a time of transition. The chapters, largely from a critical perspective, provide both general perspectives and case studies.’
– Philip G. Altbach, Boston College, US
