COVID hit casual academics hard. Here are 5 ways to produce a better deal for unis and staff
- Written by Elizabeth Baré, Honorary Fellow, LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne
Australian universities roughly doubled the number of casual staff employed to 23,000 (in full-time equivalents) from 2001 to 2019 (the latest year for which figures are available).
The greatest increase in casual staff has been in the academic workforce. The proportion of casual staff increased from 20% to 24% of this workforce in full-time...





