External publications

Access Economics (2010) Australia's future research workforce: supply, demand and influence factors. Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Canberra.

Anderson, D., Johnson, R., and Saha, L. (2002) Changes in academic work. Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.

Bassett, P. (1998) Sessional Academics: A Marginalised Workforce. HERDSA Conference Proceedings.

Bassett, P., and Marshall, H. (1996) "Women working as casual academics:  A marginalised group"ANZAM conference. City: University of Wollongong.

Bell, S., et all. (2009) Women in Science in Australia: Maximising Productivity, Diversity and Innovation. Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS), Canberra.

Bexley, E., James R., and Arkoudis S. (2011) The Australian academic profession in transition: Addressing the challenge of reconceptualising academic work and regenerating the academic workforce. CSHE, Melbourne.

Brown, T., Goodman, J. and Yasukawa, K. (2010) “Academic Casualization in Australia: Class Divisions in the University.” JIR, 52, 169-82.

Bryson, C. (2004) "What about the workers?  The expansion of higher education and the transformation of academic work." Industrial Relations Journal, 35(1), 38-57.

Campbell, I. (2010) ‘The rise in precarious employment and union responses in Australia’ in C. Thornley, S. Jefferys, B. Appay (eds). Globalization and Precarious Forms of Production and Employment: Challenges for Workers and Unions. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, 114-132.

Coates, H., Dobson, I., Edwards, D., Friedman, T., Goedegebuure, L., and Meek, L. (2009) The attractiveness of the academic profession:  A comparative analysis. ACER, Melbourne.

Coates, H., Dobson, I., Goedegebuure, L., and Meek, L. (2009)."Australia's casual approach to its academic teaching workforce." People and Place, 17(4), 47-54.

Coates, H., Dobson, I., Goedegebuure, L. and Meek, L. (2010) “Across the great divide: what do Australian academics think of university leadership? Advice from the CAP survey.” Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 32: 4, 379-387.

Coates, H. And Goedegebuure, L. (2010) The Real Academic Revolution: Why we need to reconceptualise Australia’s future academic workforce, and eight possible strategies for how to go about this. LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, Melbourne.

Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) (2009) The Research Education Experience in 2009. Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Canberra.

Dobson, I. (2010) "Uneven development:  The disjointed growth of university staffing since Dawkins." People and Place. 18(1), 31-38.

Edwards D. and Smith T. F. (2010) “Supply issues for science academics in Australia: now and in the future”. Higher Education. No. 60, 19–32.

Edwards D., Radloff  A. and Coates, H. (2009) Supply, Demand and Characteristics of the

Higher Degree by Research Population in Australia: Report to the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), Canberra.

Edwards D., Bexley E. and Richardson S. (2010) Regenerating the Academic Workforce: The careers, intentions and motivations of higher degree research students in Australia.

Falk, E. (2010) 2009-2010 Academic Staff Salary Survey. The Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Fine, M., Graham, H., and Paxman, M. (1992). Survey of the working conditions of casual academic employees at UNSW. UNSW, Sydney.

Gottschalk, L., and McEachern, S. (2010) "The frustrated career: casual employment in higher education." Australian Universities' Review. 52(1), 37-51.

Harding, N., Ford J. and Gough B. (2010), ‘Accounting for ourselves: Are academics exploited workers?’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol.21, No.2, 159-168

Hopwood, N. & Sutherland, K. (2009) “Relationships and agency in doctoral and early career academic experience.” The Student Experience, Proceedings of the 32nd HERDSA Annual Conference, Darwin. 6-9 July 2009. 210-218. Retrieved from:

Hugo, G. (2005) ‘Academia's Own Demographic Time-bomb,’ Australian Universities Review, vol.48, Issue 1, 2005. 

Hugo, G. (2005). "Some emerging demographic issues on Australia's teaching academic workforce." Higher Education Policy, 18(3), 207-230.

Hugo, G. (2008) The demographic outlook for Australian Universities' academic staff: Report to the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. CHASS occasional paper, No. 6, Canberra.

Hugo, G., and Morriss, A. (2010) Investigating the Ageing Academic Workforce: Stocktake. University of Adelaide, Adelaide.

Human Resources Department Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (2010) Universities' HR Benchmarking Program 2010: HR Performance Indicators for, Australian Higher Education Sector compared with Australian Universities. QUT, Brisbane.

Junor, A. (2004) "Casual University Work:  Choice, Risk, Inequity and the Case for Regulation." The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 14(2), 276-304. Retrieved from:

Keogh, J., B. Garrick, and L. Fera (2006) “If you actually don't do research you're history'; Casual academic workers and work choices.” ATN WEXDEV International Conference.

Kift, S. (2002) “Assuring Quality in the Casualisation of Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Towards Best Practice for the First Year Experience.” Paper presented at the First Year in Higher Education conference, July, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Kimber, M. (2003) “The tenured ‘core’ and the tenuous ‘periphery’: The casualisation of academic work in Australian universities.” Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, vol.25, no. 1, pp. 41–50.

Lazarsfeld Jensen, A., and Morgan, K. (2009) "The vanishing idea of a scholarly life." Australian Universities Review, 51(2), 62-69.

Marginson, S. (2000) "Rethinking academic work in the global era." Journal of Higher Education Policy, 22(1), 1-12.

May, R., Gale, L., and Campbell, I. (2008) "Casually appointed, permanently exploited:  How is NTEU responding to the casualisation of academic in the current climate." Paper presented at AIRAANZ.

May, R. (2011) “Casualisation; here to stay. The modern university and its divided workforce.” Paper presented at AIRAANZ.

May, R., G. Strachan, K. Broadbent and D. Peetz (2011) “The casual approach to university teaching; time for a re-think?” Paper presented at HERDSA Conference.

McAlpine, K. (2002) "The regulation of casual employment in higher education", Proceedings from the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association Conference, Melbourne.

Percy, A., Scoufis, M., Parry, S., Goody, A., Hicks, M., Macdonald, I., Martinez, K., Szorenyi-Reischl, N., Ryan, Y., Wills, S., and Sheridan, L. (2008). The RED Report. ALTC, Sydney. Retrieved from:

Percy, A., and Beaumont, R. (2008) “The casualisation of teaching and the subject at risk.” Studies in Continuing Education, 30(2), 2008, 145-157.

Petersen, E.  (2006) “Australian early career researchers negotiating the ‘culture change’ of higher education.” Paper presented to the TASA Conference 2006, University of Western Australia & Murdoch University.

Petersen, E. (2011) "Staying or going? Australian early career researchers’ narratives of academic work, exit options and coping strategies." Australian Universities Review (AUR), vol. 53, no. 2, 2011, pp.33-42

Welch, A. (1998) “The End of Certainty? The Academic Profession and the Challenge of Change.” Comparative Education Review: Special Issue on the Professoriate, 42 (1), 1-14.