Lecturer in Social Justice and Community Action at the University of Edinburgh. She/her. Tweeting about #inequality #communityaction #participation #highered
Feb 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I have been in HE on short term contracts for 10 years. During that time I have learnt how #precarity in academia is used to advance the careers of highly ambitious senior academics. Here are few insights #UCUstrikes 1/
Some highly ambitious academics pick the brightest and the best post-docs and researchers & then offload their responsibilities on to them. While these researchers remain precariously employed, more responsibility and pressure can be offloaded #FourFights 2/
