A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
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The 21 Group predicted that 2026 would be the Year of Scandals for Cambridge University. Those scandals are now arriving thick and fast. The Simon Goldhill Affair involved a distinguished classicist at King’s College, Cambridge. Allegations…
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From top left, clockwise: Karen Cox, Shearer West, Paul Greatrix, Margaret Monckton This week saw the horrible news that Nottingham University has sent letters to 2,700 staff putting them at risk of redundancy. The university is…
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It’s a now-familiar pattern. A junior researcher discovers work and ideas have been incorporated into a senior colleague’s publication without proper credit. The researcher raises the issue internally. The process is slow, procedural and opaque. They…
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What does it take for Cambridge University to expel a student? (a) making threats to kill a fellow student? (b) raping a fellow student? (c) setting fire to a fellow student? (d) sending emails? We thank…
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The 21 Group pursue policies consistent with freedom of speech and open justice. From 1–28 June 2026, an Employment Tribunal will sit at Bury St Edmunds. The claimant is Professor Neil Wyn Evans. The respondents are…
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We provide further testimony regarding Simon Goldhill. We thank our contributor for her honesty in recounting difficult details. Unfortunately, ‘sharking’ remains commonplace in many UK universities, as the Warwick University rapechat scandal demonstrated in 2019. It’s…
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The death of Dr Jane Ying Wu, covered in Nature Careers (2026), is a profound tragedy. Following an administrative investigation at Northwestern University that resulted in the loss of her laboratory and funding, she was left…
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There are more revelations in The Times about Prof Simon Goldhill, as two more female academics come forward. Their stories are here. They are sobering. “The worst of them was a forced embrace, a sloppy forced…