Feedback from the coal-face: how the lived experience of women casual academics can inform human resources and academic development policy and practice. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Crimmins, Gail
• Is Part Of: International journal for academic development. Volume 22:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 7
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Casual academic -- academic recruitment -- academic development -- sessional staff -- lived experience -- narrative inquiry; College teaching -- Periodicals; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- Periodicals; 378.1
• DOI: 10.1080/1360144X.2016.1261353
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1360-144X

Abstract

Abstract: Casual academics form the backbone of learning and teaching practice in higher education in many developed countries and in many respects can be considered the norm around which academic policy and practice might be formed. Yet a narrative inquiry into the lived experience of women casual academics within Australian universities reveals that recruitment and management of casual teaching staff is generally ad hoc, and although they are committed to and enjoy teaching, casual academics rarely engage in professional and career development. Consequently, recommendations to contemporise recruitment and professional development policy for casual academics are made.