Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic

Kınıkoğlu, Canan Neşe; Can, Ayşegül

doi:10.1080/14616696.2020.1839670

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“…Minello et al (2020) show that academic mothers fear for the progress of their careers in a context where such progress is highly dependent on research outcomes and publications. Indeed, precarity was a major issue linked to the pandemic andwhile it did not emerge during the pandemicit was exacerbated by it as also discussed for the wider academic sector in one of the papers of this special issue (Kinikoglu and Can 2020).…”

Section: Social Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume

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The coronavirus pandemic, which first impacted European societies in early 2020, has created a twofold crisis by combining a health threat with economic turmoil. While the crisis has affected all European societies very significantly, its impact varies across countries, social groups, and societal domains. In an effort to provide a first overview of the effect of the coronavirus crisis, in this editorial we discuss contributions of 58 papers published as part of this special issue. These early research papers illustrate the varied impact of the pandemic on various areas of social life. The first group of studies in this special issue analyzes the effect of the pandemic on social inequalities with respect to gender, ethnic otherness, education, and work. A second stream of research focuses on the psychological consequences of the pandemic, especially with respect to wellbeing and resilience. Thirdly, the crisis is discussed on a societal level, in regard to welfare states, social policies, and approaches to crisis governance. In a fourth line of inquiry, several studies have analyzed the impact of the pandemic on social solidarity and cohesion. A fifth strand of research is devoted to examining the role of culture and lifestyles. This review ends with a discussion of areas for future research trajectories.

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Section: Social Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume

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“…The move online, however, was not the only dramatic change during the pandemic. Casual employment conditions shifted and the responsibilities of caring for students shifted disproportionately, with student expectations increasing around "care," particularly from female academics (Kınıkoğlu and Can 2021;Nash and Churchill 2020). Across 2020 we both lost substantial amounts of work, partly due to natural attrition of research and teaching work in a pandemic, and in no small part due to changing workplace conditions in the academy and a marked increase in exploitation of precarious workers.…”

Section: Moving Online and Precarious Workmentioning

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The academic precariat post-COVID-19

Cornelius-Bell¹,

Bell²

2021

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The nature of work has changed, in accelerated late-capitalism and as a result of the COVID-19 global health crisis. For academics, casualised and precarious, the sweeping institutional changes of contemporary neoliberal universities, the sharp rise in managerialism, and the political power plays of universities have created further untenable spaces for work and study. In this article we explore the relationship between doctoral studies, precarious academic employment, the pandemic, and the disproportionate effects of the changes in higher education on women. Through exploration of personal experience, as precarious academic workers, researchers, and doctoral students, we provide parallels to research literature across pandemic and post-COVID literature. We provide practical suggestions for the corporate university, to rebuild its catastrophically collapsing systems, and re-centre doctoral students in mentorship as the new future of universities in Australia, and around the world.

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“…Steven decided to share his experience in the UK higher education (HE) sector with us following the outbreak of Covid-19 and the intensification of blended teaching. He discusses how the pandemic has exacerbated his feelings of insecurity (Kınıkoğlu and Can, 2021) and the increased pressures for sickness attendance (Van Der Feltz-Cornelis et al, 2020). The article provides an important insight into the casualisation of academic work and the impact this has on workers' decisions to work when sick, one of the commonly identified forms of presenteeism (Johns, 2010), particularly in periods of crisis (Hadjisolomou, 2016).…”

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Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Hadjisolomou

Mitsakis

Gary³

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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This article discusses the story of Steven, a precarious academic worker, and his decision to work from home while being infected with Covid-19; a phenomenon called virtual presenteeism. As argued, Steven’s sickness presence is the outcome of the increasing precarity and job insecurity in the sector, as well as the outcome of a presenteeism culture in academia which is being facilitated by technology and the blended learning approach adopted during the pandemic. The article outlines precarious academic workers’ fear to go off sick, illustrating how Steven negotiates the precarity of his contract via virtual presenteeism to portray over-commitment to the institution and avoid the risk of job loss. As concluded, while blended learning becomes the new educational norm in higher education, virtual presenteeism risks becoming the new attendance norm. This article calls for more research to examine how the blended teaching approach will further impact on academic work, post-pandemic.

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Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic

Cited by 37 publications

References 22 publications

The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume

The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume

The academic precariat post-COVID-19

Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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