We all worked for the lab at the university. It was a very successful lab. It was run on big grants obtained by our highly-cited PI. We made many important contributions to medical research for over 25 years. We had Read more…
It’s a hyper-competitive field! Like the most evil tech billionaire. Or the dumbest thing done by Donald Trump. When it comes to the destructive culture of modern universities, Oxbridge likes to be at the apex of the rankings. For example, Read more…
One of the commonest queries to the 21 Group is about contested authorship. Politics around paper authorship is particularly an issue in STEM subjects where collaborations are the norm, less so in the humanities. Queries usually come from students & Read more…
Another Scandal ! Another Scandal ! Another Scandal ! We predict that 2025 will be the Year of Scandals in UK universities. There are a number of reasons. The regulator of Higher Education is the Office for Students, which employs Read more…
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) give you the right to request information held about you — for example, meeting minutes about your promotion, pay, complaints or even just malicious emails naming you. You may be unhappy about how your University has Read more…
There’s been a Grievance raised against a Professor. The Human Resources (HR) division of the University is indolently carrying out an investigation. This might be done by a group of internal academics, advised by HR. Or sometimes the University uses Read more…
Perhaps a Professor went over the top this time and nearly killed someone with sadistic bullying. Or a Professor was a little too blatant this time and offered a female grad student a postdoc position in exchange for sex. These Read more…
The 21 Group has received information from an individual who has recently worked in the HR department of a UK university. The testimony paints a picture of corruption and betrayal of trust. We are not naming the university. It may Read more…
The 21 Group is anxious to publish accounts of bullying in Universities from the viewpoint of their victims. These stories are rarely heard. Too often, we hear the bluffing of the HR Directors that “our University does not tolerate bullying Read more…
Dr Magdalen Connolly started as a graduate student and went on to become a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. She completed a Humboldt Fellowship at Munich University just a few months Read more…