Human geography, media studies, cultural studies, Latin American studies. Not a geoscientist. She/ella
May 12, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I once worked at a university that is doing what the University of Leicester is doing now and can say the following with some authority
1. academic redundancy ruins people’s lives. It leads to mental health breakdown, hospital admissions and the need to take anti-depressants
Jul 24, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine if instead of announcing a freeze on all pay increases, promotions and increments, university managers announced a maximum salary of £100,000 for anyone working in the institution. The savings made on obscene senior management pay could then go to frontline staff
Especially as those who earn more than £100,000 already don't do any teaching. It would create good will and loyalty at a time when it is urgently needed. Our research and holidays are on hold while we convert our course material for online teaching.
Jan 26, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Having just wasted more precious time this week talking about the intellectually destructive REF (which also wastes precious HE funds that should be used elsewhere), I was glad to read this article by @JshRbnsn
Some highlights below cdbu.org.uk/the-new-ref-bi…
1/9
"What the response to the mandatory inclusion of all researchers produces is a set of mechanisms whereby colleagues’ work is continually evaluated, outwith the regular processes of peer review."
2/9
Jun 30, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
SOSNicaraguaUK and Caravana Informativa de la Solidaridad Internacional with @_flordeunanoche and other Nicaraguan activists will be in London, Brighton, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Newcastle. Please join us to condemn violence and human rights abuses in Nicaragua #SOSNicaragua
London
Mar 30, 2018 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I've realised that if I'm going to (continue to) be a productive and creative intellectual that makes some kind of valuable contribution, I need to do everything I can to ignore and protect myself from the bureaucratic and intellectually impoverishing madness that is the REF
The idea that a single publication has some kind of essential ontological status that can be captured in a category such as a number like 3 or 4 and that the number awarded in an internal panel would be replicated in an external panel w a different set of academics is ludicrous
