By Dr Kate Smithers

Journal articles

Smithers K; Gurr S; Spina N; Harris J; Heffernan T, 2026, 'Just because you are staying does not mean you are ‘stuck’: conceptualisations of academic mobility for precarious academics', Discourse, 47, pp. 112 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2483193

Heffernan T; Smithers K, 2026, 'The rise of the pro-sessional: precarious employees taking on complex and faculty-critical roles', Discourse, 47, pp. 126 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2493862

Smithers K; Andrews R; Cliff K; Eady M; Hay I; Hillyar K; Kohlhoff P; Monteleone C; Morrissey C; Winslade M; Gao X, 2026, 'The skills, knowledge, and attributes of the supervising teacher in initial teacher education: a framework for research and professional development', Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 54, pp. 38 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2025.2591871

Gibbs L; Smithers K, 2026, 'What makes a sustainable career in Australian universities: advice for early career academics', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 48, pp. 203 - 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2025.2598893

Monteleone C; Cliff K; Andrews R; Babic M; Smithers K; Winslade M; Hay I, 2025, 'Perspective of Supervising Teachers and Tertiary Supervisors on Professional Learning for Professional Experience', Education Sciences, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci15101413

Hillyar K; Smithers K; Deehan J; MacDonald A, 2025, 'What is known about simulation technologies and their application to Initial Teacher Education: A scoping review', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 1389 - 1406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00767-4

Smithers K; Syed S, 2025, 'A review of the Australian honours student experience: a new framework for understanding research supervision', Cogent Education, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2025.2588538

Smithers K; Gibbs L, 2025, 'Challenges and opportunities for early career researchers: using the theory of practice architectures to unpack enabling and constraining conditions', Professional Development in Education, 51, pp. 2175 - 2188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2024.2386661

Smithers K; Harris J; Heffernan T; Gurr S, 2025, 'Decasualisation and the universities accord: an examination of university approaches', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 47, pp. 282 - 298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2025.2462128

Gamage D; Ledger S; Smithers K; Karstadt L, 2025, 'The role of service-learning in the International Baccalaureate: a scoping review, 2014–2024', Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102088

Heffernan T; Smithers K, 2025, 'Working at the level above: university promotion policies as a tool for wage theft and underpayment', Higher Education Research and Development, 44, pp. 585 - 599, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2412656

Smithers K, 2024, 'School tours and philanthropy in Zimbabwe', Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100140

Harper M; Smithers K, 2024, 'Fieldwork from A–Z? Exploring shifting identities in doctoral research in Australia and Zimbabwe', Australian Educational Researcher, 51, pp. 1469 - 1485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00649-1

Smithers K, 2024, 'Heterotopia and the ‘image of Africa’: school tours and philanthropy in a Zimbabwean school', Critical Studies in Education, 65, pp. 386 - 402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2023.2286230

Smithers K; Hillyar K, 2024, 'Using Founder’s syndrome to explore leadership in one Zimbabwean school funded by tourism', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 56, pp. 374 - 389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2024.2338063

Smithers K; Spina N; Harris J; Gurr S, 2023, 'Working every weekend: The paradox of time for insecurely employed academics', Time and Society, 32, pp. 101 - 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463X221144136

Smithers K, 2023, '‘What is your name, where do you come from, what is your grade?’ Using art-based interviews to highlight the experience of children hosting school tours in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe', Tourism Recreation Research, 48, pp. 912 - 924, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2022.2133812

Harris J; Smithers K; Spina N; Heffernan T, 2023, 'Disrupting dominant discourses of the Other: examining experiences of contract researchers in the academy', Studies in Higher Education, 48, pp. 37 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2022.2105831

Smithers K; Ailwood J, 2022, 'School Tourism in Southern Africa', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1811

Spina N; Smithers K; Harris J; Mewburn I, 2022, 'Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach', British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43, pp. 534 - 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2057925

Smithers K; Harris J; Goff M; Spina N; Bailey S, 2022, 'Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54, pp. 37 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2021.1881458

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