Professional staff carve out a new space

摘要: A 2004 paper, ‘The invisible workers’ by Szekeres, lamented the ‘invisibility’ of professional staff in Australian higher education. Even then, constituted more than half university workforce, but they were defined what not (non-academic) and experienced a high level frustration their relationships with academic institutions. This paper examines whether situation for has changed intervening period. It would seem that 2009, professionals had carved out critical space sector been able to do 2004. At senior levels, are no longer restricted specialist roles such as human resources or information technology building services have moved into Pro- Deputy-Vice-Chancellor space, previously reserved academics. However, there much change junior middle management roles? considers literature over last s...