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My sense is that there are still jobs to be had if you work in digital, medical or environmental humanities. Universities are thinking strategically about growth areas. None of this helps you or me!

But this was early 2000s - then fixed term lectureships were regarded as a prerequisite for longer term employment. This has changed simply because there are no jobs in our field at the moment - see comment about redundancies above. It’s the wider economic situation rather than ECRs at fault.

Hi Sam, my own career trajectory started with hourly-paid teaching then fixed term lectureships before my current post at Lancaster - I would hesitate to call it ‘permanent’ as 25% of academic staff are about to be made redundant.

Thanks Jen - and congrats on the great placing. ♥️