Add to ORKGBelow the Tower of Precarity lies an out-of-bounds area. This is the realm of academic ghosts, who leave academia and yet continue to haunt it by doing academic work outside of formal academic employment. These academics do not exist, and yet they do, inhabiting the shadow economy of academic life. They have many stories to tell. Pain, disappointment, sense of failure, and departure are common themes, but ghostly existence can happen at any stage of academic careers. PhD students become de facto ghosts when they are expected to meet unrealistic job market requirements and are left in limbo post-completion. Others pass through the haunted realm on transitional paths between temporary contracts or to parenthood. Yet others become ghosts follo...
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Why would someone who has spent nearly 40 years in a business career find themselves striving to bec...
What do we pursue as we seek success in academia? For most, the path to academic success focuses nar...
This chapter introduces the rationale for looking at how academics are managed, as their status as a...
Should academic careers always unfold in exactly the same way? Is there one best way of being an aca...
This chapter ventures on what we have decided to call the general academic. It tells stories to shin...
In a land where Spanish moss sways from oak trees, family Bibles and lineages are treasured and tout...
Despite the fact that precarious modes of employment have become increasingly common in academic ca...
Some years ago we conducted a research interview with a man who taught sound production at a college...
The early stages of an academic career are fraught with insecurity. By focusing on the individual an...
Despite the diversity of entry points into academia, little research exists examining the experience...
In a world where there are increasing concerns about graduate underemployment and likely career traj...
There are many ways through the Meandering Gallery. Its non-Euclidean space adjusts itself to visito...
This book is a guide to the strategies, opportunities, and practicalities of developing an academic ...
Welcome to the world of university academics, where the Academic Hunger Games, fuelled by precarious...
This chapter explores academic professional life in the UK from the perspective of individual facult...
Why would someone who has spent nearly 40 years in a business career find themselves striving to bec...
What do we pursue as we seek success in academia? For most, the path to academic success focuses nar...
This chapter introduces the rationale for looking at how academics are managed, as their status as a...