Academic colleagues, @LivUni are targeting 47 colleagues with redundancy, after an abrupt, non-consultative and opaque review which uses weaponised grant income and citation metrics. Please sign and share this open letter to protest
docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ… #LiverpoolRedundancies
docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ… #LiverpoolRedundancies
Form for signing is here (you can't edit the letter directly)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #LiverpoolRedundancies
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #LiverpoolRedundancies
This is despicable action, devastating for those targeted, but also an insult to all @LivUni staff, who have worked harder than ever during a pandemic, to see the callous regard their employer has for them #LiverpoolRedundencies docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ…
Liverpool's redundancy project is also a threat to a healthy UK research culture. We all know how fickle these metrics can be, how much of value they ignore. Firing staff with good appraisals based on narrow metrics is a destructive, terrible, precedent docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ…
Students and teachers should also be mad as hell about these redundancies. What do we think will happen to the student experience if staff fear for their jobs, and know the only way to keep them is to satisfy the angry gods of research measurement? #LiverpoolRedundancies
The actions of @LivUni threaten research reliability everywhere, they threaten teaching and the idea of the University everywhere. It is not too late for them to change course - please join me in calling on them to do so #LiverpoolRedundancies docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ…
The next generation will lose thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/next-generatio… letter from @LunaCentifanti about #LiverpoolRedundancies in @psychmag
Here is a link to the position currently open at @LivUni - "Responsible Metrics Implementation Officer" jobs.ac.uk/job/CEC743/res… #liverpoolredundancies
Happy to say that, as of a few minutes ago, over 1000 academics would like to say to @LivUni THIS IS NOT OKAY #liverpoolredundancies docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ…
Thank you to the extra 200+ overnight signatories docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ…
As well as signing the letter, here's how you could help
1. Send it by email to your departments, collaborators, networks
2. If you work with @LivUni write to them and let them know how you feel
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1. Send it by email to your departments, collaborators, networks
2. If you work with @LivUni write to them and let them know how you feel
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3. Get in touch with organisations who should care about this: funders, student societies, scholarly societies and professional organisations. They should state a position on this, Liverpool's actions set a dangerous precedent
The most recent 3 signatures on this are from Norway, Japan, Ireland - scholars around the world recognise the insult these plans are to academic life everywhere #liverpoolredundancies docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ…
We're just 38 more signatures from 2000 (hint) docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ…
I have now formally presented this open letter, with over 2000 signatories from academics around the world, to the VC and senior leadership of @LivUni, requesting an urgent response. You can download a PDF of the letter at the point of sending here tomstafford.staff.shef.ac.uk/docs/liverpool…
The letter remains open! Signatures being added to the docs version here docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ… You can - you should! - continue to sign using this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #liverpoolredundancies
Liverpool students recognise that this is a threat to their education
https://twitter.com/LyonsMinna1/status/1364929989850914816?s=19
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