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Academic Freedom & Internationalisation WG Profile picture
Academic Freedom & Internationalisation WG
@AFI_WG
Aim: strengthen #AcademicFreedom in the context of the internationalisation of UK HigherEd. Tweets on AF in the UK & further afield 🌎 RT ≠ endorsement
Oct 22, 2021 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
As promised, we continue the @AFI_WG's policy primer series with a primer on #fieldwork 🌍📝🌏. Authored by @BeBedeGe, @HeathershawJ & @ilyas_saliba, it suggests a list of institutional measures which support the fieldwork approval process and enable good practice and safety. 1/ Image ⚠️⚠️After a number of recent high-profile incidents of researchers suffering harassment, arrest, detention and even death while on fieldwork, increased attention has rightly been given to protecting UK-affiliated staff and doctoral researchers when conducting research abroad. 2/
Mar 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Solidarity statement on behalf of scholars sanctioned for their work on #China - please consider signing and share with interested parties

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… "We are writing to express solidarity with all our persecuted colleagues... and calling on the Chinese government to revoke these unjustified sanctions and to accept that scholarship on China, like scholarship on any country, entails scrutiny of its policies, goals and actions.
Oct 15, 2020 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
1/ @UUKIntl released a report today on security guidelines for universities and featured in Times @CharlieHParker. It needs consideration and we are happy to debate it with them at their conference on 11-12 Nov. However, here are some initial thoughts.

universitiesuk.ac.uk/news/Pages/New… 2/ We are happy that the reports cites our work as well as that of @Sar @GPPi among others - alas not @ucu. It also adopts our definition of academic freedom and highlights the values of codes of conduct to protect academic from. However, we have a number of concerns.