Sessional academics: 1991-2012

Title: Sessional academics: 1991-2012
Creator: Ryan, Suzanne
Relation: 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (Perth, W.A. 5-8 December, 2012)
Relation: http://www.anzam.org/publications/
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2012
Description: The past two decades have witnessed the introduction of New Public Management ideologies and practices. In the same period, the number and proportion of sessionally employed academics have increased to the extent that such employment has become mainstream in Australian universities. Despite the reliance of universities on sessionals, these people remain on the margins of academic life with little chance of becoming tenured despite their desire to do so. The paper reports on a 2012 survey of sessional academics and compares the results with studies in 1991 and 2002 to find little has changed except that the queue of sessional academics wanting to enter the permanent workforce is bigger, older and more experienced with less chance of fulfilling their aspirations.
Subject: critiques of managerialism; critical management; higher education
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309157
Identifier: uon:21791
Identifier: ISBN:9780987415806
Language: eng
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