Kathleen Smithers

Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach

Nerida Spina, Kathleen Smithers, Jessica Harris et al. · British Journal of Sociology of Education · 2022 · 55 citations · Full text

Education, Higher Education, Industrial Relations +16

Working every weekend: The paradox of time for insecurely employed academics

Kathleen Smithers, Nerida Spina, Jessica Harris et al. · Time & Society · 2022 · 27 citations

Social Sciences, Higher Education, Employment Contracts +15

Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy

Jessica Harris, Kathleen Smithers, Nerida Spina et al. · Studies in Higher Education · 2022 · 24 citations

Management, Organization Studies, Contract Theory +14

Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity

Kathleen Smithers, Jessica Harris, Mhorag Goff et al. · Journal of Educational Administration & History · 2021 · 14 citations

Management, Human Resource Management, Ethics +10

Working at the level above: university promotion policies as a tool for wage theft and underpayment

Troy Heffernan, Kathleen Smithers · Higher Education Research & Development · 2024 · 11 citations · Full text

Education, Higher Education, Higher Education Administration +7