Sub-prime scholarship

Academic labour is increasingly undertaken by a diverse and hierarchical workforce where not all perspectives are heard.

Professors comprise only 20% of tenured academics - of which only 20% are women and most of the able bodies working in universities are white and straight.

An estimated 50 to 60% of academic work (teaching and research) is undertaken by a casual and disposable workforce employed on short-term teaching or research contracts with little or no job security.

This eBook is a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the Discourse, Power, Resistance (DPR) conference that articulate the absence of presence within the academy of sub-prime scholarship.