I left with a notebook full of ideas and incredibly helpful feedback.

Thank you to all the contributors, to Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social for his invaluable feedback as our workshop respondent, and to colleagues at @unileipzig.bsky.social for all the behind the scenes support.

I have been waiting for this for months 😂

(5) I am of course aware that this doesn't cover everyone's individual experience and I have never been on an hourly-paid contract only. But hopefully this helps to shed some light on the plight of precariously employed staff at Oxford.

(4.2) in their contracts. Despite many SLs having several years of teaching and research experience, the SL automatically keeps them quite far down the hierarchy within the college and university and hardly offers any chances for career progression.

(4.1) And research leads me to another paradox. Even though SLs are expected to provide world-class research-led teaching, even the university doesn't really recognise them as independent researchers. SLs are rarely, and often only following their own initiative, considered as research active