Whilst the government pretends to care about views being supressed on campus, @uniofleicester is trying to sack staff whose research threatens management
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.@ronald_hartz is at risk because his research "displays profound questioning" of "mainstream management thinking".
#BoycottLeicester
Dr Valerie Fournier is at risk because her critical management research is not aligned with the university's strategic priorities.
#BoycottLeicester
.@samdallyn is at risk for researching radical alternatives to the status quo.
#BoycottLeicester
Prof Gibson Burrell is at risk because his research is not in areas ‘aligned with school strategic priorities.’
#BoycottLeicester
Dr George Kokkinidis is at risk for his research on social, economy, cooperatives and social clinics.
#BoycottLeicester
.@Gareth_S_Brown is at risk because ‘his work on the practice of politics does not align with strategic priorities’
#BoycottLeicester
.@profsimonlilley is at risk because he conducts his research from a ‘sociological perspective’.
#BoycottLeicester
Dr @DavidHarvieUCU is at risk ‘for conducting research primarily in Political Economy’
#BoycottLeicester
Dr Geoff Lightfoot is at risk because his work ‘was not aligned with the school strategy’
#BoycottLeicester
The real crisis in our universities is the suppression of academic views and research.
Join us in fighting @uniofleicester's redundancies.
#BoycottLeicester
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