@BLASST_

Action Researcher promoting evidenced-based reflective practice for learning in Higher Education

 Sydney
Joined January 2012
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Ice watching and thinking about reflections — in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)’s article, @Meermini's blogpost on a recent HERD article mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/1…

Ice watching and thinking about reflections — in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)’s article

Climbing the steps out of the water after an ice dip lets me see the world from a different perspective. Instead of focussing on not slipping and on controlling my breath on the way down…

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lol who did this
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"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.
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At Parliament House today launching ⁦@NTEUnion⁩’s third wage theft report which found underpayments are set to explode to $382 million. We need an urgent parliamentary inquiry into university wage theft. ⁦@sallymcmanus⁩ ⁦@LachlanClohesy⁩ ⁦@sarahecroberts⁩
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Hark! Is that the sound of a Senate committee inquiry being readied? The NTEU wants a parly inquiry into unis underpaying staff. Senator Sheldon (Lab-NSW) who chairs upper house educ committees, tweets uni execs "need to be held accountable"
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After being dragged to the Federal Court, Uni of Melbourne admits refusing work to a casual academic who simply asked to be paid for hours she worked. I wish this was an isolated incident but we know insecure work fuels exploitation right across our sector standard.net.au/story/854505…

Uni admits not giving casual more work after claim

The Fair Work Ombudsman has taken the University of Melbourne to court, alleging it took adverse action against...

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University “managerial roles grew 122 per cent from 1997 to 2017, with senior management roles expanding by 110 per cent, while insecurely contracted colleagues did the bulk of teaching.” thesaturdaypaper.com.au/shar… @SatPaper
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Fair Work Ombudsman taking UNSW to Federal Court, alleging breaches of record-keeping, pay slips, frequency of wage payment. FWO focus is on 66 allegedly affected academic casuals in the Business School
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Marina Harvey retweeted
ACSES@acsesedu25 Sep 2023
We also have to consider the precarity of employment in #highered. If the bulk of educators and equity staff in universities are casual or on fixed-term contracts, how can they make others feel included when they themselves feel excluded by the institution? @seos895
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This amounts to a total of another $4.4m in stolen wages from workers in our sector. Despite the huge figure this shockingly comes in at only 10th place on our table of the worst offenders.
Stephen Matchett@SRMatchett10 May 2023
Yet another uni owes staff for unpaid wages. Fair Work Ombudsman reports UTS owes 2777 people an average $1590 - one person is owed $209 000 (yes $209 000).
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UTS underpaid one staffer $209 000. It wasn't a billion but Uni Sydney still made a motza in '22. Campus Morning Mail for Friday @ bit.ly/3LZSJgM
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From the end of 2023 there will be restrictions on the use of 2+ year fixed-term contracts & renewals/rolling contracts. This could have big impacts on the 45,000+ #highered contract staff unless the Award explicitly allows rolling & long contracts (1/3) fairwork.gov.au/newsroom/new…
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There’s nothing complicated about paying university staff what they are owed. Unis $107.8 million wage theft disgrace can’t be downplayed. Time to own up and pay up. Uni lobby defends members against pay allegations campusmorningmail.com.au/?po…
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Penny Van Bergen@Penny_VB22 Feb 2023
Highly recommend this practical + evidence-driven interdisciplinary MOOC for anyone in higher Ed and looking for teaching ins and outs - great job @BLASST_ and @AgnesBosanquet!
Marina Harvey@BLASST_22 Feb 2023
Enrol now for the Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC. Launching new modules on First year transition, Psychology of learners and learning and UDL! canvas.instructure.com/enrol… @caullt @Penny_VB @AlissaBeath @kathyegea @ChrissyGrubbs @altfellows
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Read #AdjunctNation Today: #Adjuncts at American U Reach Settlement After Weeklong Strike adjunctnation.com/?p=15610&u… #highered #college
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Marina Harvey retweeted
Associate Deans@ass_deans9 Sep 2022
You misunderstood us when we told you we valued quality teaching. This means that students are happy with the course, not that they learned something useful. Now go make your students happy!
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Kelly Matthews (Uni Queensland), says "we have got to raise the skill-set across all teaching academics." Hear all about it in Campus Morning Mail's Expert Opinion @ bit.ly/3D6wmmM
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Lots of presentations at #HERDSA2022 on student equity, societal inequality & fragility, but casual staff "Tertiary Tetris" presentation reminds us of inequality within #highered institutions
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Marina Harvey retweeted
JUTLP@jutlp7 Mar 2022
Today marks International Women's Day, and we release a Special Issue on women and leadership in higher education learning and teaching led by @DrKerrynBH and @ProfAngeCarbone #IWD ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol19/is…
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Sally Kift@KiftSally27 Jan 2022
This wk in my CMM series @SRMatchett @Macquarie_Uni @BLASST_ Marina Harvey @RMIT @sanbjones @caullt Distributed leadership for #COVID academic leadership vs heroic individuals 👉Building leadership capability across uni teams just makes (sustainable) sense campusmorningmail.com.au/new…
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