Precarity isn’t just contractual. It’s about whether academic work allows people to live fulfilling, stable lives. Join us for our report launch event on Wednesday.
Speakers: Gillian Rose, Lekan Adekola, Matilda Fitzmaurice, Jay Todd
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Today, we are featured in Science|Business, promoting our #precarity findings to European policymakers, research funders, companies and universities.
Article: sciencebusiness.net/node/60789/p...
Thank you to our incredible speakers, Lekan Adekola, Gillian Rose, Matilda Fitzmaurice and Jay Todd, who really made our report launch event. Thanks too, to everyone who attended and contributed.
Stay tuned for next steps.
📯Call for help from our Warwick colleagues researching #academicfailure
@johnmacartney.bsky.social wants to speak with UK based academics (any career stage, contract, or department) about their experiences of "failure" or non-success in research.
Most of us have experienced this, so please help!
Our report is cited in the Times Higher Education today. Thanks again to everyone involved in the project. #EndPrecarity
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Cuts, mergers, and redundancies risk hollowing out the discipline and eroding its interdisciplinary core. Geography’s future depends on confronting precarity head-on. Join us for our launch event on Wednesday!
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Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
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Read report:
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We're invitomh all geographers to the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.
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Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
Why this report matters now: A collapsing HE funding model is deepening insecurity. Our findings show how precarity is reshaping the discipline.
Report:
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States of Precarity
States of Precarity
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States of Precarity
We're invitomh all geographers to the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.
💡Our @statesofprecarity.bsky.social project has been covered in
@sciencebusiness.net. 'Fixed-term academic contracts discourage ‘radical’ research' sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun... Thank you @davidmjourno.bsky.social for reaching out to the team
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
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The rise of fixed-term academic contracts means researchers are likely to play it safe in their choice of research topics, eschewing the kind of ambitious, radical discovery European policymakers want...
