A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
My article on whistleblowing, published in Nature, is here. At the University of Cambridge, whistleblowing investigations are overseen by one of three senior officers: the Registrary, the Academic Secretary or the Vice-Chancellor. Yet the whistleblowing policy has still not been updated following the University’s defeat in…
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The University of Cambridge has added thousands of employees since 2009. But the most striking change is not the growth of its workforce. It is where that growth has occurred and what it says about the…
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In the wake of the loss of the Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal, and with the Grace impending, the University of Cambridge has announced the membership of the committee tasked with examining its human resources (HR) processes. The…
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The last time a Cambridge Vice-Chancellor was deprived of office was on 7 May 1687. John Peachell had refused to comply with James II’s order to award an MA degree to the Catholic monk Alban Francis…
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Professor Nigel Peake is scheduled to assume the Mastership of Darwin College on 1 October 2026. His election took place before the “Cambridge Whistleblowing” Employment Tribunal, whose hearing was in June 2026, with further private hearings…
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The current issue of ‘The Reporter’ contains much of interest. First, the Grace for an audit of the Human Resources division has been published. It is on page 7. The Grace is intended to strengthen and…
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If you are a member of Regent House, please urgently consider signing the Grace, which calls for an external audit. The Grace was motivated primarily by difficulties experienced by staff in the MRC Epidemiology Unit and within University…
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Female students make serious allegations about a Professor’s conduct. The Professor is dismissed after an investigation. Police are investigating. And yet some of the students who raised concerns were reportedly not told what the University’s investigation…
