CASA

Yes, we haven’t posted for a while but we’re still here. Still thinking, still working on our few words. Still (with)standing. Why are we still here? We’ve asked ourselves this question qui...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/were-still-here/

What to say in the aftermath of this piece. In his mid-40s, John had worked as a casual university tutor since finishing his PhD in philosophy 15 years ago. Passed over a few times for tenured jo...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/a-few-words/

This was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 18th October 2016. We don’t have any words to add at the moment but we will in coming days, as the sadness continues to seep through and the ...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/no-words/

This post is co-authored by Jonathan O’Donnell of The Research Whisperer and by Kate Bowles and  Karina Luzia of CASA. It has been cross-posted to both blogs. We’re glad to be back in ac...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/it-gets-worse/

The casualisation of academia means that academics in ongoing and fixed-term roles increasingly wield proxy-employer powers over their colleagues who are employed as tutors and research assistant...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/academics-as-employers-accepting-the-responsibility/

We were invited to sit on a panel on Academic Activism at the 5th International Academic Identities Conference 2016 Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes, and politics...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/affiliation-withheld/

Semester has ended, the grades are parked, and tomorrow we’re off to the 5th International Academic Identities Conference at the University of Sydney. The conference is titled Academic life in ...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/are-we-activists/

The evenings are drawing in, and it’s time to start clearing our backlog of news on casualisation in Australian higher education, and around the world. While we’re at it, hello to our new ...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/casa-news-0416/

We started CASA in 2014 as independent writers—one casually employed, one on a permanent academic contract—as an irked response to the Universities Australia annual conference, which was st...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/all-sides/

How (whether) you speak about casualisation in Australian higher education has become a kind of shorthand for indicating where you are in the system, and sometimes, where you want to be. Your ...

https://actualcasuals.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/the-c-word/