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Feedback from the coal-face: How the lived experience of women casual academics can inform human resources and academic development policy and practice
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Feedback from the coal-face: How the lived experience of women casual academics can inform human resources and academic development policy and practice

Gail Crimmins
International Journal for Academic Development, Vol.22(1), pp.7-18
2017
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2016.1261353View
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academic development academic recruitment casual academic lived experience narrative inquiry sessional staff
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. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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