home cooked theory

Professional precarity, 1

This is a note to self, and to anyone who didn’t catch Mark Bousquet’s recent post on professionalism and academia. It really highlights how the sacrificial labour of academics helped to make voluntary labour commonplace beyond the campus, in turn contributing to a broader deterioration of professional status that can no longer be rewarded financially [...]

Cultural work and creative biographies symposium

Wednesday April 1st 2009 The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Michael Young Rooms: 1, 2, 3 & 4 Organisers Rosalind Gill, Centre for Citizenship Identities and Governance (CCIG), The Open University Mark Banks, Department of Sociology/CRESC, The Open University Stephanie Taylor, Department of Psychology/CCIG, The Open University The last decade has seen [...]