A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
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We have described in an earlier blog posting the sad yet inspiring case of Magdalen Connolly The matter was extensively discussed in the Times Higher Educational Supplement by Wyn Evans and in the Daily Telegraph by…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The 21 Group is indebted to Dr Emily Baker for contributing a new section to the 21 Group webpages on Employment Tribunals for Beginners. This is the definitive “HowTo” on holding your University to account in…
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A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is a legally binding contract that establishes a confidential relationship between two or more parties. The purpose of an NDA is to prevent the disclosure of information to third parties. Universities are gluttons…