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Michelle Donelan, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, made false allegations about two academics. Donelan wrote to the Prof Ottoline Leyser, the chief executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to “express, in…
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The Billionaire University has been found guilty of exploiting its staff at an Employment Tribunal. Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly taught Creative Writing at Oxford University for 15 years. They were employed on fixed-term “personal services”…
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This is a very upsetting story. It concerns the death of an undergraduate student. Natasha Abrahart was in the second year of a physics degree at Bristol University. She sadly took her life in 2018 —…
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There is a human cost to bullying. The people running UK Universities don’t seem to care much about that. They are primarily interested in running the University like a business. So here, we will just look…
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Here we complement the previous posting with a study of the 10 worst performing Non-Russell Group Universities. Again, we give total number of complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), as well as complaints per 1000…
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Open universities uphold the right to speak and to know — in order to support involvement in governance and accountability of management. The Freedom of Information Act (2000) provides access to information held by your University.…
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‘Mr Bates and the Post Office’ has been a harrowing TV series on the abuse of power, as hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters were wrongly sent to prison for theft. This is despite the Post Office middle…
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Here is a Youtube video in which no-one is allowed to comment or downvote. It introduces Cambridge University’s “Dignity at Work” policy. We are assured, “There is no place for bullying, harassment, discrimination, sexual misconduct, or…
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Below is the pdf of a talk about Bullying in Academia given to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey group. It contains a summary of the work of the 21 Group in the wider context of bullying,…
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In a recent post, we tackled the myth that bullying is necessary to drive academic staff performance. In fact, the data suggest the exact opposite. Institutions with a historical record of bullying performed more poorly in…