A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
The 21 Group is always willing to report accounts of victimisation and bullying in Universities. Please use contact@21percent.org to tell us your story. This contribution comes from a Lecturer at a University somewhere in the Midlands. “I moved to a Lectureship in…
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Dr Bernhard Fulda is a College Teaching Officer (CTO) at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is also Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History. In 2023, he applied for a permanent University Teaching Officer (UTO) position in Twentieth-Century German History in the Faculty of…
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Before 1988, academics in permanent posts in the UK could only be dismissed for serious wrongdoing or failure to perform their duties. This gave them strong protection comparable to tenured professors in North America. The Education…
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The infographic shows the number of staff employed in the Human Resources division in Cambridge University over time, together with simple parabolic fit to the data. We can see a very steep rise since 2021 that…
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This is a guest post from Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists. Many of us doing scientific research at Cambridge University have appeared on his podcasts and radio shows. Now he needs our help ……
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Appointment committees are a common arena in which bullying can occur in academic life. In hiring, scholarly excellence competes with baser emotions like: “He’s my collaborator,” or “She laughed at my conference talk in 2019.” or…
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Some of the most vulnerable people in the desolate landscape of UK universities are postdocs. Nowadays, few independent research fellowships are available. Instead, many postdoctoral positions are project-related, supported by a grant obtained by the Principal…
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The Staff Culture Survey at Cambridge University is not just restricted to bullying and harassment, prevalent though these are in academic life. It also asked questions about career progression. And this revealed another shocker of a…
