Your local University and College Union (UCU) branch at Queen Mary, University of London
UK Academia is Dying from Over-Management: The Queen Mary Scandal by Jeremy Garwood is a good summary of events with key references. UK university culture: Academic Values No Longer Add … Continue reading Criticism of metric-enforced redundancies at Queen Mary continues
A warning from the editor of The Lancet to researchers thinking of starting their independent careers at Queen Mary Richard Horton, The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9836, Page 13, 7 … Continue reading Be careful what you wish for
As news spreads of the appalling treatment of staff in various restructurings, Queen Mary management has attracted the dubious honour of being skewered by the UK’s leading satirist of Higher … Continue reading QM restructurings ridiculed
At the request of UCU representatives, Queen Mary’s Principal, Simon Gaskell, visited the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences to hear the deep concerns of staff and students at the … Continue reading QM Principal’s Cavalier Remarks on Teaching ‘Risk’ and Research in SBCS
Last Friday, the Head of School in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences (SBCS) – the department currently threatened with massive restructuring and the loss of over a quarter … Continue reading UCU protests effort to silence academics over restructuring
