Be realistic about a career as an academic - but also hopeful.: ‘Academia is a wonderful wonderful job - if you can get a job’.

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Universities making staff, students and the public wear the costs.

Researchers have noted for several years that universities are increasingly relying on precariously employed academics rather than employing continuing or permanent staff members, and consequently,...

Researchers have noted for several years that universities are increasingly relying on precariously employed academics rather than employing continuing or permanent staff members, and consequently,...

I've never done anything in my life that gets as much credit as running. Even when I was just starting out, people were so impressed by me going for a run. I was given a huge amount of encouragement, even for short runs, slow runs, runs with lots of walking. As I passed various milestones (whether that was being able to run for 10 minutes without stopping, or my first 5k park run) I felt all the support along the way.

A tip I learned from learning to run is 'active recovery'. In fact, there is a whole thing in running called a ... 'recovery run'! This horrified me when I first found out about it. Any run felt like a huge effort, surely any kind of running was the opposite of recovering from running! And it's true, you should be sleeping, and resting, and taking days off from running, to recover from running. But it's also a good idea to sometimes run, slowly, easily, not for too long, to help you recover from running. And this made me think about what active recovery strategies we might use to help us in our writing.

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Globally, correlations are reported between lower academic attainment and university students being a member of an ‘equity’ or ‘historically under-represented’ group. We seek to illuminate how this...

Casual and fixed-term employment is rife across Australian universities, with current estimates suggesting that around 60% of the workforce are precariously employed. This level of precarious emplo...

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

Casual and fixed-term employment is rife across Australian universities, with current estimates suggesting that around 60% of the workforce are precariously employed. This level of precarious emplo...

Are you interested in what the future could look like for learning spaces in Higher Education? Hear from contributors to the HERD 2025 SI.

This paper focuses on competitive funding models for public schools, drawing on interviews with public school principals serving disadvantaged student cohorts in Australia. Public schools receive t...

The University of Melbourne student whose work could contribute to curing blindness says ‘people are shocked to find out how unlivable it is’

Universities are spending more on top management staff, with almost 200 people on salaries of $500,000 or more a year.

Higher education has a strong relationship with wage theft, which has been examined throughout years of research, reports, and government enquiries. This paper examines the practices of wage theft ...