Scholarly Teaching Fellows as a new category of employment in Australian universities: impacts and prospects for teaching and learning'

Goodman, J; Broadbent, K; Brown, T; Dados, N; Junor, A; Strachan, G; Yasukawa, K

Scholarly Teaching Fellows as a new category of employment in Australian universities: impacts and prospects for teaching and learning'

Goodman, J

Broadbent, K Brown, T Dados, N Junor, A Strachan, G Yasukawa, K

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Citation:: 2020, pp. 1-71
Issue Date:: 2020-11-01

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dc.contributor.author	Goodman, J https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3211-3416
dc.contributor.author	Broadbent, K
dc.contributor.author	Brown, T
dc.contributor.author	Dados, N
dc.contributor.author	Junor, A
dc.contributor.author	Strachan, G
dc.contributor.author	Yasukawa, K
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-10T11:45:14Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-10T11:45:14Z
dc.date.issued	2020-11-01
dc.identifier.citation	2020, pp. 1-71
dc.identifier.isbn	9781760519759
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/147004
dc.description.abstract	In recent years a new type of teaching-focused academic position has emerged in the university system, the ‘Scholarly Teaching Fellow’ (STF). These continuing positions are designed to replace casual teachers, and to enable a more ‘sustained’ engagement with scholarship as required under Commonwealth higher education standards. There has been agrowing reliance on casual academics to deliver university courses, and the rise of the ‘gig’ academic has undermined scholarship as well as job security. In 2012 the sector’s lead trade union, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), proposed a novel approach to extend teaching capacity and provide job security for a portion of the estimated 50,000 casual university teaching staff. By creating a career path for the casual academics who currently perform the bulk of face-to-face teaching in Australian universities, it was envisaged that not only would casual academics benefit from enhanced job security, but that the employment ofmore continuing staff would improve teaching and learning and enhance the student experience. Between 2012 and 2015, industrial agreements negotiated between the NTEU and the majority of the sector’s universities led to a commitment to create 850 positions for a new type of academic role: the Scholarly Teaching Fellow (STF). Around 800 of these positions had been created by August 2018. This research, funded as a ‘Strategic Project’ by the former Office of Learning and Teaching, examined the introduction of STFs into the Australian university system between 2013and 2016. The project explored the impact of this new category of employment in Australian universities on the organisation and future prospects of academic work.
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dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Department of Education, Skills and Employment
dc.relation	Office for Learning & Teaching (Department of Education and Training)SP16-5285
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dc.title	Scholarly Teaching Fellows as a new category of employment in Australian universities: impacts and prospects for teaching and learning'
dc.type	Report
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Social and Political Sciences Program
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dc.date.updated	2021-03-10T11:45:12Z
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Abstract:

In recent years a new type of teaching-focused academic position has emerged in the university system, the ‘Scholarly Teaching Fellow’ (STF). These continuing positions are designed to replace casual teachers, and to enable a more ‘sustained’ engagement with scholarship as required under Commonwealth higher education standards. There has been agrowing reliance on casual academics to deliver university courses, and the rise of the ‘gig’ academic has undermined scholarship as well as job security. In 2012 the sector’s lead trade union, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), proposed a novel approach to extend teaching capacity and provide job security for a portion of the estimated 50,000 casual university teaching staff. By creating a career path for the casual academics who currently perform the bulk of face-to-face teaching in Australian universities, it was envisaged that not only would casual academics benefit from enhanced job security, but that the employment ofmore continuing staff would improve teaching and learning and enhance the student experience. Between 2012 and 2015, industrial agreements negotiated between the NTEU and the majority of the sector’s universities led to a commitment to create 850 positions for a new type of academic role: the Scholarly Teaching Fellow (STF). Around 800 of these positions had been created by August 2018. This research, funded as a ‘Strategic Project’ by the former Office of Learning and Teaching, examined the introduction of STFs into the Australian university system between 2013and 2016. The project explored the impact of this new category of employment in Australian universities on the organisation and future prospects of academic work.

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