164 members of staff have signed this open letter to MMU Vice Chancellor Malcolm Press following his response to NSS results. If you're a member of staff at MMU have a read, sign and share forms.gle/82yMncdxqFhvtm…

"As society grows anxious about economic indicators, the dead seem to rise" bit.ly/3hOmkcF via @bitchmedia

'Power Despite Precarity is a rousing call for the contingent faculty movement to embrace grassroots, rather than top-down, organizing and break out of the narrow confines of collective bargaining.' Power Despite Precarity reviewed in LA Progressive: laprogressive.com/contingent-fac…

❌ hiring more staff? ❌ fighting precarity? ❌ reducing workloads? ❌ cutting VC salaries? ❌ protecting our pensions? ❌ giving us a pay rise? ❌ not even a little gift basket? ❌ seriously – anything? ✅ Wellbeing Resources UCU

1/3 of all academic staff, 75,000 people, are on precarious contracts. 66,000 are on 'atypical contracts'. This scale of exploitation shames the sector, and denies our members secure livelihoods. Yet employers don't think casualisation is even worth discussing.

We face a workload crisis. So many of our members work long into every evening & throughout the weekends, often unpaid. 72% say this has negatively affected their physical & mental health. Employers are happy to discuss health issues, but don't mention reducing working time.

students! if you enjoy the ‘buzz of campus life’ you might like to try the buzz of the picket line

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All I want for Christmas is for universities to become the hotbeds of radical thinking the reactionary right fantasise they are

‘What researching the benefits system has taught us about being trauma informed when people encounter traumatising systems’ Devouring Steph Allan 🌻 @[email protected] and colleagues super important article in ‘clinical psychology forum’. A few especially important quotes/points below #disability

PhD students face losing a whole month's worth of wages next year! Hard enough even when you're not paid quarterly. Sign the letter demanding an emergency increase in pay for the lowest-paid members of the academic community! bit.ly/UKRIStipends #phdlife #PhDVoice

amazing day at the Music and Online Cultures Research Network conference at University of Salford ❤ so much brain food for my first academic foray into the field of cultural studies. interdisciplinarity rules

excellent research from my panel-mate at Europ. Soc. for the History of the Human Sciences last week!

I just signed a OU Divestment Campaign petition: We Call on The Open University to Divest from Israel and the Arms Industry. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-c…