The Guardian homeInternational staff bring economic and reputational benefits to UK universities. Yet they suffer low pay and poor working conditions. I work for £6.18 an hour. Without an office or desk space, without sick days, a pension, overtime or family leave. With no guarantee of hours past April. Once you factor the hours I actually put in against the hours for which I am compensated, I earn less than minimum wage with minimal benefits and no job security. I have a PhD and three years of postdoctoral experience, and I am one of the rising number of professional academics who count themselves among the part-time, fixed-term, temporary, non-standard, atypical, unbundled, disaggregated, sub-, non-, irregular, adjunct, or otherwise contingent faculty. Read more...