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Seminar for the Teaching & Learning Breakfast Series at the University of South Australia
SCHOLARLY TEACHING: WORK AND IDENTITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION The Scholarly Teaching Fellow (STF) role was introduced into Australian universities in 2013. As of February 2018, almost 700 new positions had been created. The positions were aimed at creating a more...
STFs lead to secure employment pathways & increased teaching capacity
ABSTRACT New research undertaken as part of an Office of Learning and Teaching Strategic Project shows that the outcomes of the initiative have been varied. While the scale of the initiative has been too small to have a direct impact on casualisation, the...
Using Workplace Gender Equality Agency Statistics for Universities
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) collects nation-wide data every year from organisations with more than 100 employees. Organisations must report on the total number of employees by gender, employment category (managers and non-managers differentiated...
Scholarly Teaching Fellows: Drivers and (Early) Outcomes
ABSTRACT In Australian universities, the majority of teaching is now delivered by casual academics, engaged on short-term, hourly-paid contracts. Casual and continuing academic staff have worked actively through the national tertiary education union to limit...
How much is this number worth? Representations of academic casualisation in Australian universities
ABSTRACT Casualisation of the academic workforce in Australia has increasingly become a pointed issue of contestation between university managements and the union, the National Tertiary Education Union, during enterprise bargaining negotiations over the last...
Scholarly Teaching: The Changing Composition of Work and Identity in Higher Education
ABSTRACT By February 2018, more than 700 positions for a new type of academic — the ‘Scholarly Teaching Fellow’ (STF) — have been created. The creation of STFs reflects a shift in priorities, both for universities and for staff as represented through the sector’s...
From ‘Inclusion’ to ‘Solidarity’: Organised Labour and Academic Casualisation in Australia
ABSTRACT In many parts of the world, academic casualisation has accompanied the emergence of mass higher education. Universities have become a key site for struggles against precarity, and the stance adopted by unions in tertiary education has become central....
Counting the uncounted: challenging distorted casualisation data in the Australian university sector
ABSTRACT In the last two decades, insecure work in universities in many countries has grown exponentially, alongside the rapid marketization of higher education. Reflecting the neoliberal ideal of a flexible workforce, research and teaching at universities is now...
Connect: Scholarly Teaching Fellows – The experience so far
Publication in NTEU Connect: 10(1), March 2017.
Scholarly Teaching Fellows: Points for Discussion
Workshop at the National Council of the NTEU, October 2016 by Dr James Goodman.
Broadbent: Scholarly teaching fellows (STFs) as a new category of employment in Australian universities: impacts and prospects
Presentation to the Learning & Teaching Workshop, Australian Business Deans Council, Cairns June 2016 by Dr Kaye Broadbent.
Goodman: Ensuring Scholarship in Teaching? The new ‘Scholarly Teaching Fellows’
Presentation to the UTS Teaching and Learning Forum, November 2016 by Dr James Goodman.