ABSTRACT

This study explores how early career academics negotiate precarity in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom under the amplified uncertainties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our preliminary findings based on the semi-structured interviews with nine early career academics (six women and three men) shed light on varying experiences of early career academic precarity with regard to working and life routines, and their participation in the job market. We argue that early career academics’ gender, employment status, and their university affiliations influence the degree to which they are able to instrumentalise and negotiate precarity during the pandemic in the UK.

抽象的

这项研究探讨了在COVID-19大流行带来的不确定性加剧的情况下，早期的职业学者如何在英国的高等教育部门中应对不稳定因素。我们基于对九名早期职业学者（六名女性和三名男性）进行的半结构化访谈的初步发现，揭示了早期职业学者对工作和生活习惯以及他们对就业市场的参与的不同经历。我们认为，早期职业学者的性别，就业状况以及他们与大学的隶属关系会影响他们在英国大流行期间能够发挥工具作用并谈判pre灾的程度。