Support, advice and mentoring to help you build a fairly paid, securely employed Academic career at the University of Wollongong.
With the support of your Academic colleagues and our union office, we want to see Early Career Academics feel supported and engaged with our public university community.
We want you to be aware of your rights at work, your rights to see your career progression supported at our workplace.
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- Fair Workload Allocations that build in genuinely useful time for Research and Professional Development.
- Rights around Fixed Term Contracts for HDR students employed at level A (Associate Lecturer Positions)
- Advice around getting off Probation and building a case for Promotion off Level A and Level B positions.
- Advice and assistance in navigating University bureaucracy and workplace processes.
By joining the NTEU you will be able to access workplace advice, support and guidance on your rights at work, plus gain access to our network of Early Career Academic staff and with more senior Academic colleagues, many of whom are willing to assist in a WECAN mentoring role as you try and establish your career in Teaching, Research and University Governance at UOW.
Our next meeting of WECAN is on Friday 27th June, online and in person. Head here to register for this meeting!
We also hold social events for WECAN members a few times a year. To get access and invites to events where you can meet colleagues in your Faculty and from across the university sign up using the form above.
But first, join your union, the NTEU if you haven't!
Union member contributions are calculated at 1% of your salary and are fully tax deductible.
Once you are a union member you can register for the WECAN network using the form above.