A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
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This is Whistleblowing Awareness Week. Universities say that they encourage an open and honest reporting culture. The websites of their Human Resources departments extol the importance of speaking out if you see abuse or bullying or…
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Learned societies (such as the British Academy or the Royal Society) seem to face difficulties when one of their distinguished members is found guilty of bullying or unethical behaviour, though it is hard to see why.…
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Over the last 2 years, two Professors have been dismissed at Leiden University because of serious bullying or coercive behaviour. They are Prof Tim de Zeeuw (astronomy) and Prof Corinne Hofman (archaeology) In the case of…
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There is a need for more statistics on bullying, discrimination, harassment & victimisation in academia. Existing surveys are either restricted to certain subject areas (eg astronomy & geophysics) and/or curiously unavailable (eg EPSRC’s Report on “Understanding…
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If you raise a formal allegation of bullying or misconduct, your University will have to investigate. Studies show that bullying is endemic in Universities. A few examples among many will suffice. In one of the largest…
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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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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…