eSocSci Early Career and Postgraduate Network: Academic Labour Academic Lives
Channel: e socsci
Date: 2017-08-08

This participatory workshop explores different aspects of academic labour and life in the contemporary university. Together we explore: the diverse, shifting and often invisible nature of academic roles; the question of how academics learn their craft; some strategies for surviving, ideally even thriving, in the contemporary academy; and the possibility of deciding to “leave.” The workshop aims to keep a number of opposing sensibilities in tension – the ongoing necessity for refusal and critique, the inevitability of “playing the game,” and the necessity of developing individual and collective strategies for doing as well as we can in a satisfying but challenging profession.

Bio: Ruth Barcan is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Beyond her interests in academic labour and the contemporary university, Ruth is also widely published in the areas of consumer culture and complementary and alternative medicine.

This workshop runs in association with the Royal Society Early Career Researcher Forum. 

Worksheets and reading lists can be downloaded from the ECPG network resource page here:
http://www.esocsci.org.nz/networks-pages/ecpg/resources/seminar-4-academic-labour-academic-lives-resources/