Colleagues are invited to attend the CSHE Research Seminar taking place on Thursday 16 November 2017, 13.00-14.00 in the UELT Seminar Room. Professor Carole Leathwood from London Metropolitan University will be presenting the seminar on Insecurity and Inequality in Academia: The shape of things to come?

The academic workforce has become increasingly casualised, with over 50% of all academic staff in the UK on some form of insecure contract. In this paper, Professor Leathwood will draw on both secondary data and primary research with academics (conducted with Barbara Read, University of Glasgow), to explore inequalities in the prevalence and distribution of insecure contracts and the experiences and concerns of academic staff.

Current trends suggest that increasing precarity in academia may be the shape of things to come, with serious implications for academics, research and the future of higher education. Such trends are not, however, inevitable, and Professor Leathwood will conclude by opening up a discussion of ways in which they might be resisted and challenged.

To book a place please email us.