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dc.contributor.authorAllen-Collinson, Jacquelynen_GB
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Exeter. At the time of publication the author was at the University of Gloucestershire.en_GB
dc.date.accessioned2008-02-15T11:11:45Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-25T12:07:23Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T15:05:19Z
dc.date.issued2003-08-01en_GB
dc.description.abstractContract researchers constitute a significant occupational group within the UK higher education system, and the products of their labour are crucial to the research profile of the institutions in which they work and to the sector as a whole. Given the ‘marginality’ of the contract researcher role, with its attendant insecurities and inferior employment conditions in comparison with ‘permanent’ faculty, it is perhaps not surprising that relatively few individuals manage to sustain any continuity of employment resembling a career path. The fact that some researchers do succeed in achieving this is therefore worthy of investigation. This paper examines and charts some of the ways in which contract researchers manage their everyday work routines and construct a presentation of self in order to maximise opportunities for ‘staying in the game’.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationThe Sociological Review, Volume 51, Number 3, August 2003 , pp. 405-422(18)en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-954X.00427en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/18452en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishingen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.00427en_GB
dc.subjectcontract researchersen_GB
dc.subjectmarginalityen_GB
dc.subjectsocial sciencesen_GB
dc.subjecthigher educationen_GB
dc.subjectcareer-developmenten_GB
dc.subjectcontracting outen_GB
dc.subjectfixed-term contractsen_GB
dc.titleWorking at a marginal ‘career’: the case of UK social science contract researchersen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2008-02-15T11:11:45Zen_GB
dc.date.available2011-01-25T12:07:23Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T15:05:19Z
dc.identifier.issn00380261en_GB
dc.descriptionThis a pre-print, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in The Sociological Review. Copyright © Blackwell publishing 2003, Published on behalf of Keele University. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.comen_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1467954Xen_GB
dc.identifier.journalThe Sociological Reviewen_GB


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