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Just Because You Are Staying Does Not Mean You Are 'Stuck': Conceptualisations of Academic Mobility for Precarious Academics

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  • المؤلفون: Kathleen Smithers (ORCID Kathleen Smithers (ORCID 0000-0001-7301-5658); Sarah Gurr (ORCID Sarah Gurr (ORCID 0000-0001-5154-249X); Nerida Spina (ORCID Nerida Spina (ORCID 0000-0002-2923-0104); Jess Harris (ORCID Jess Harris (ORCID 0000-0003-4584-6993); Troy Heffernan (ORCID Troy Heffernan (ORCID 0000-0002-8156-622X)
  • اللغة:
    English
  • المصدر:
    Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 2026 47(1):112-125.
  • الموضوع:
    2026
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • المصدر:
      14
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • الموضوع:
      Foreign Countries; College Faculty; Faculty Mobility; Higher Education; Temporary Employment; Nontenured Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Place of Residence; Interpersonal Relationship; Career Choice; Site Selection
    • الموضوع:
      Australia
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1080/01596306.2025.2483193
    • ISSN:
      0159-6306
      1469-3739
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Discourses of the 'wandering scholar' privilege the notion of academic mobility, with career benefits for those who are mobile. Universities employ ever-increasing numbers of people on short term contracts, and it is important to consider how precarity influences an individual's im/mobility. Drawing on interviews with precariously employed academics, we highlight how the concept of mobility privileges those without the 'stickiness' of affective ties. These ties might include family, medical care needs, preferences for location, and institutional connections. We argue that precarious academics experience a range of ties that may 'stick' them to a place, through choice or circumstance. For some, there may be an active decision "to stay" rather than a passive experience of "becoming stuck in place" by forces beyond their control. To appreciate the difference in experiences of agency in academic mobility, we provide a conceptualisation of 'immobility' that recognises that not everyone who stays is necessarily 'stuck'.
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      As Provided
    • الموضوع:
      2026
    • الرقم المعرف:
      EJ1500860