Hellos..
Quick thought / question: I'd generally agree with attempting to use short term and hourly contract minimally for all those reasons. But the question I have is, when there are temporary openings created (such as through teaching buy out that are perhaps part
of a research funding bid or something like that), what would be a sensible way to deal with situations like that? Or would you argue to only apply for research funding including teaching buy outs if that could be used to create permanent positions? And if
so, how many funding bodies are there that offer sufficient funding to support that?
Cheers
Stevphen
On 22/09/2016 15:11, jsadiec @
gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Prof Picard, as someone trapped in this grim underclass, I
appreciate your call. May I also draw attention to the issue of
short-term research contracts, which offer a couple of months of
part-time payment, inevitably interspersed with long periods of
unemployment.
Thank you
J. Sadie Clifford
On 9/22/16, Robert Picard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Colleagues:
This is not to shame any particular university and department, by MECCSA’s
listserv now regularly announces hourly paid lecturers and zero hour posts,
practices that should be resisted by all scholars.
Hourly paid and zero-hour contracts offer precarious and exploitative
employment that is damaging to both lecturers and the university. Such
contracts reduce the academic profession to wage labour and do not recognize
the value of the years of knowledge and skills development.
Those hold such positions have no job security and limited opportunities for
advancement. In trying to achieve liveable wages,many of our colleagues are
often so busy teaching multiples courses or courses at multiple institutions
that they are unable to make scholarly contributions and enhance
opportunities for regular employment.
Their positions also keep them from participating in academic governance and
departmental strategy and tend to create lower engagement and commitment to
programmes and students.
While such contracts may sometimes seem a reasonable way to fill unexpected
openings, meet demands for course without instructors, and reduce expenses,
their habitual use now means that only about one-third of UK faculty are on
regular employment.
Faculty should be resisting these practices whenever they arise in their
departments.
Prof. Robert G. Picard, FRSA
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