Quality assurance is a major agenda in tertiary education. The casualization of academic work, especially in teaching, is also a quality assurance issue. Casual or sessional staff members teach and assess more than 50% of all university courses in Australia and yet the research in relation to the role sessional staff play in quality assurance of student assessment outcomes is scarce. Moderation processes are a pivotal part of robust quality assurance measures. Drawing upon previous work

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... ing four discourses of moderation (Adie, Lloyd & Beutel, 2013) this pilot project reports the results of research into the role and impact sessional staff play in moderation processes at the tertiary level. Qualitative data were gathered through focus interviews. Results, in the form of various moderation discourses, indicate that sessional staff impact the formal quality assurance processes in numerous ways.