Sub-prime scholarship / guest editors, Dr Mark Vicars and Dr Jon Austin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vicars, Mark, editor.

Austin, Jon, editor.

Series:

Qualitative Research Journal: Volume 15, Issue 2

Qualitative Research Journal, 1443-9883 ; Volume 15 Number 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Economic aspects.

Education, Higher.

College teachers.

College teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bradford, West Yorkshire, England] : Emerald, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Academic labour is increasingly undertaken by a diverse and hierarchical workforce where not all perspectives are heard. Professors comprise only 20% of tenured academics - of which only 20% are women and most of the able bodies working in universities are white and straight. An estimated 50 to 60% of academic work (teaching and research) is undertaken by a casual and disposable workforce employed on short-term teaching or research contracts with little or no job security. This eBook is a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the Discourse, Power, Resistance (DPR) conference that articulate

Contents:

"I was made to feel very discriminated againstas an anglo-saxon"Festival as methodology: the African culturalyouth arts festival; Australian citizenship in interesting times; Of fish and goddesses: using photo-elicitation with sex workers; Book review

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78441-852-8

OCLC:

910448358