Associate Prof at Durham Law School. Research interests: History, theory and spatiality of international law. Personal interests: everything else.
Durham UK
Joined February 2011
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Durham expects 200 jobs to go as it seeks to save £20 million
University becomes latest to announce staff cuts, saying it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies ow.ly/5eKo50UOC7v
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Taking on bank loans to deal with savings justified by previous bank loans.
But we don't need an urgent change to the finance AND GOVERNANCE system of universities... 🙄
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ALT Front page of the Angus & Dundee edition of The Courier (regional daily newspaper). Headline reads: Uni seeks bank loan to pay for redundancies.
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‘The question needs to be asked why the leadership of UCU is unable to show the imagination or creativity of branches… Disputes are being treated in isolation and there has been no attempt to draw them together into a campaign.’ @counterfireorg #HEcrisis counterfire.org/article/the-…
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We did a little table, based on the annual reports, on the number of people earning over £100.000 a year. We're still waiting for the 23-24 numbers, but we see a trend....
In 2023, the @UniofNewcastle vice-chancellor’s salary went up from £328,000 to £341,200
Vc's grand total for year was £404,300
Other senior managers' pay rises follow the VC🙂
Made redundant?🤣
It's hard work overseeing decline, firing people & paying external consultants
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The real crisis in academia is the bloating at the top - overpaid managers who squeeze surplus value out of students & workers while inventing ways to increase workload to justify their own overpaid positions.
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Also announcing a doubling of teaching workload since there will be no "unfunded" research. So unless you're lucky enough to get external funding, it's teaching-only for you. A real shame that the Framework Agreement was never understood or defended years ago.
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Newcastle is the latest to go to this model of no unfunded research to reduce staff. The Russell Group marketing sham will still promote it as a research-intensive institution. Staff will also have to publish for their careers. This will be unpaid, out of hours work.
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Newcastle University announcing 300 FTE redundancies. Come to the EGM tomorrow (Wed 1pm) and as we saw this coming, our ballot opened yesterday - vote as soon as it arrives (by post). We will be fighting this, and join forces with the other two campus unions UNITE and UNISON
Today our ballot opens - we urge our members to VOTE!
ucu.org.uk/article/13809
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#LiftTheBan
The University of Sunderland has told staff who are at risk of redundancy that they cannot talk about it:
‘no discussions with students, alumni or colleagues’.
Please sign and share this petition to get this decision reversed👇
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/sund…
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Don't miss Durham’s Professor @cmgerrard1 and researcher @johncastling on BBC's Digging for Britain, 8pm, @BBCTwo. Tune in for this fascinating glimpse into 17th-century #Britain.
Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wPZai
Also available on @BBCiPlayer. @ArcDurham @aucklandproject
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the British derisking state, promising to partner with AI firms while doling out more austerity for public services and calling it the 'golden age of public service reform'
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“Scholasticidal tendencies, as we call them, manifest in four key ways: silence, the suppression of solidarity, ‘complex’ or ‘nuanced’ arguments, and the threat of theories.” Important read about complicity with the erasure of Palestine at the university and in academic spaces.
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The thing that has struck me most in around 15 years of academia is that good citizenship and solidarity are looked down upon
Sycophancy, obedience to hierarchy, classism and ruthless individualism are far more valued (which is unsurprising given how conservative a milieu it is)
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An excellent, article by @DrBlacklock in today’s @guardian. It makes you aware of Humphrey Smith’s iron fisted grip&influential power throughout his property estate. Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain theguardian.com/news/2024/de…
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“to talk about migrants as only a burden to this country, here on a scam, is the kind of language that people like me are used to catching after last orders on streets that suddenly don’t feel so safe. To hear them from our prime minister should shame him and his party.”
All Starmer’s failings play into the hands of Farage – the prime minister is the gift that keeps on giving
My column
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