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Invisible labour: visible activism

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we acknowledge that invisible and emotional labour can affect any academic of any gender, particularly those on education/ teaching focussed contracts. Emotional labour involves managing emotions and interactions in the academic setting without formal recognition or workload compensation.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Libraries can delay rehiring when necessary to use “salary savings” to manage budgets, at least in the short term. Almost all of the materials budgets are tied up in subscriptions and access fees for online resources, often with multi-year contracts with vendors that provide these services. 2013, section 3.4]

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

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I took that to be mandatory, and it led to many staff being moved to ‘teaching only’ contracts. There is still some strategic management of staff numbers – the units submitting just under 20 or 30 staff were many times higher than submitting one more, which would have required an extra case study. on staff and institutional behaviour.

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It’s the metrics, not the Matrix, part 3: Degenerative AI

Teaching Matters Online Learning

For one, we do not prohibit the academic study of leisure, especially if it attracts big grants). Upon closer inspection, time is not saved at all, especially for those in precarious temporary contracts, or with student loans, or who need a promotion, or on scholarship deadlines. Paris: Seuil. The Hélène Cixous Reader. Derrida, J.

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It’s the metrics, not the Matrix, part 3: Degenerative AI

Teaching Matters Online Learning

For one, we do not prohibit the academic study of leisure, especially if it attracts big grants). Upon closer inspection, time is not saved at all, especially for those in precarious temporary contracts, or with student loans, or who need a promotion, or on scholarship deadlines. Paris: Seuil. The Hélène Cixous Reader. Derrida, J.