Editorial

Letter Writing and Critical Self-Reflection: An Insiders Account of Academic Casualisation in the Australian Neoliberal University

“…Letter writing is a valuable form of recording daily experience and creating an archive of historical material to provide glimpses into the past to understand the writer’s times, circumstances, and intentions. Schulte and Von Tippelskirch (2004) comment, ‘[s]ince antiquity letters have been written to bridge distances, to build networks and to strengthen relationships’ (p.6). I have used letter writing format for creating data which adds another layer to the recording of one’s history; documenting the process of my ‘evolving sense of self – as a research participant, to show my […] research audience, the shuffling and shifting process that I underwent during [this process]’ (Channa, 2017, p. 359).…”