“…It can be argued that employment security facilitates the academic freedom necessary for academics to analyse, critique and speak out. Academics in the tenuous periphery include lecturers, tutors and researchers employed on sessional academic, casual professional and fixed-term contracts (Bexley, Arkoudis, & James, 2013;Bexley, James, & Arkoudis, 2011;Broadbent, Troup, & Strachan, 2013;McAlpine, 2010;Ryan, 2012;Ryan et al, 2013;Smith, 2012). Brown, Goodman, and Yasukawa (2010, p. 170) have noted that 'casuals on the periphery are deskilled and marginalised in scholarly life, threatening the status of higher education as a public good, and thereby redefining the fields of knowledge'.…”