Precarity

Theresa O’Keefe, Aline Courtois and Teresa Crew

This seminar will explore the normalisation of precarity within higher education institutions and

the extent to which structural inequalities are reproduced through the casualisation of academic

work. We wish to collectively reflect on the challenges of resisting precarisation in the sector

and possibilities for achieving meaningful change in the academic workplace. The session is

centred around Dr Teresa Crew’s recent book, Higher Education and Working-Class

Academics Precarity and Diversity in Academia, as well as Dr Aline Courtois and Dr Theresa

O’Keefe’s current research into long-term academic precarity in Irish higher education

institutions.