Kate Smithers
katesmithers.bsky.social
Kate Smithers
@katesmithers.bsky.social
I work at Charles Sturt University and I am interested in sociology of education with a particular focus on academic work and philanthropy in education. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=KwNebNUAAAAJ&hl=en
I thought the same.
September 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Reposted by Kate Smithers
Grammatical amusements aside, TEQSA recommended a bunch of crackdowns and unis have pushed back recognising their place in community (to allow others to come on campus too).

Oh, and now onto casual underpayments (dare I say it, wage theft @katesmithers.bsky.social ...)
July 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I live in Bathurst and this one almost got me…
March 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The same thing happened to me when I started running. I felt a bit weird about it at the time but then decided to embrace it, because I love it!
March 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This post is very interesting and puts into words something I had been feeling. Although I think I fell more into the paralysis/overwhelm part.
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
- A key contribution is the identification of positions, such as doctoral fellowships and practitioner positions, that diversify from the types of ‘scholarly teaching’ positions found in previous EBAs.
February 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
- In this paper we identify the range of university responses to the call for decasualisation in Australia
- Across the 35 EBAs analysed in this paper, there are a minimum of 2,554 FTE positions expected to be advertised by Australian universities within decasualisation schemes between 2021 and 2026
February 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM