Precarity Awareness Posters
The following posters have been developed to raise awareness of experiences of precarity and how colleagues can help. They are free to download - please hang them in your workplaces and share widely online. Kindly produced for the States of Precarity project by Dr Zoe J Ayres (@zjayres)
1. Recognising the challenges created by fixed-term contracts
Roughly 30% of UK geographers are currently employed on fixed-term contracts (HESA, 2024), yet the personal and professional impacts of these contracts is not widely recognised. This poster summarises some of the key ways in which fixed term contracts affect colleagues.
2. How to support colleagues on fixed-term contracts
Regardless of our positions within our departments, we can all do a better job at recognising the needs of fixed-term colleagues. This poster summarises some of the most valued ways in which respondents said that others had helped them.
3. Recognising how people experience precarity differently
Fixed-term contracts are not all experienced in the same ways by the same people. This poster summarises some of the key contributing factors to experiences of precarity relating to fixed-term contracts.
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