Reposted by Rick DelbridgeWilliam Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 06/08/2025The British university mess is so clearly what happens when the incentives of the people administering and consulting on the system bear no relation to those of anyone actually working in it 216838
Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 02/04/2025More information on our latest and last CCR challenge lshubwales.com/news/innovat...lshubwales.comInnovative Single-Use Endoscopy Technology Tackles NHS Waiting Lists | Life SciencesIQ Endoscopes introduced a single-use diagnostic tool to address the growing demand for endoscopy procedures in the NHS, particularly reducing waiting times. 000
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeLeighton Andrews @leightonandrews.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Last time of promoting this - next week, we publish our alternative for Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd ukania.substack.com/p/a-critique...ukania.substack.comA critique of Cardiff University's plans.Redacted, revised and abridged. 042
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeCCR Challenge Fund @ccrchallenge.bsky.social · 27/03/2025After four years, the current phase of the CCR Challenge Fund is coming to an end, but we are very proud of what we have achieved through our work during this time. Watch the video to find out more about the impact of the CCR Challenge Fund:youtube.comCCR Challenge Fund- impact to dateYouTube video by CCR Challenge Fund 101
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 25/03/2025big scoop from @georgewparker.bsky.social “English university is set to be fined a record £585,000 over allegations it failed to uphold free speech and academic freedom, in a landmark ruling in the debate over student rights on campus” 3225
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeCCR Challenge Fund @ccrchallenge.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Find out from our case study video how IQ Endoscopes are working with @cavuhb.bsky.social and @cedarcardiff.bsky.social in the last phase of the Endoscopy Challenge @zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.socialyoutube.comEndoscopy Challenge, part 2 (Eng subs) 033
Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This is a great example of the challenge-led innovation we have been supporting in collaboration with @ccrchallenge.bsky.social #innovation #mission 020
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeCCR Challenge Fund @ccrchallenge.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Our recent #MissionsInAction event (21 Feb) featured case studies of real-life mission-led/challenge-based activity. Did you miss it? Find out more and watch all the presentations on our website: www.challengefund.wales/news/mission...youtube.comMissions in Action, 21 Feb- event highlights 112
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025A lot can happen in 20 years 49628
Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Important critique of how the ‘transformation process’ that is engulfing Cardiff University is being managed. We should debate the what but not the how of organizational change. The twin harms of reputational damage and to staff wellbeing must be minimised. 044
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeLeighton Andrews @leightonandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2025I talk about why academics in Cardiff University are angry, why I’ve voted for a strike, and higher education policy more generally from about 15 minutes in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukSunday Supplement - Ukraine, Higher Education, a new electoral map, Covid remembrance, the Law Society at 200 - BBC SoundsPolitical news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers. 0118
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeRichard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 06/03/2025In 2004, defence accounted for > 30% of UK govt R&D spending; in 2022 it stood at 13%. An important graph for appreciating the scale of changes to the UK’s science & innovation landscape that geopolitics is likely to dictate, as the “peace dividend” unwinds 2189
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...voice.cymruTwo Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes… 212766
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Universities are: successful exports, magically avoiding trade barriers. The buyers come here and give you £! They are also spreaders of our values and way of life abroad. They are great ways of levelling up as a campus does not need to be in the South. 712434
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/02/2025The Welsh university system is in such dire straits. For a small, mostly rural country that needs economic growth, and is trying to build a sense of itself, that's a disaster. Yet the whole reaction (unlike steel) is like *shrugs shoulders, whatever*. I don't get it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUniversity applications drop leading to economy concernsWales will be at an 35519
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Here's the crazed madness of British Higher Education policy: there's a big demand to do Engineering, but unis can't afford to offer more places. Utterly maddening. Stupid, dumb as rocks country. 🇬🇧 0156
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeEwan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities. 13565208
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeMelanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Hey industrial relations people (labo(u)r relations, unions etc.). This looks like a great network. 062
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Totally agree with this. If there isn't a major course correction there won't be much left of Welsh Higher Education by the end of the decade. It's in even worse shape than the HE 'system' in the rest of the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCall for major review of Welsh higher educationPlaid Cymru call for a review of how universities are funded follows redundancy plan at Cardiff University. 01812
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Today's universities slashing and burning have been Brunel and Edinburgh. As the crisis deepens, there'll be multiple news like this most days. Remember: you can't cut your way to safety, it's impossible. 075
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/02/2025One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend: *Centralise functions *Cut small courses *Reduce student options *Abolish loads of joint awards *Chop staff headcount This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3) 1119792
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeCentre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS) @cgrisbath.bsky.social · 13/02/2025@cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers on Re-emergence of #IndustrialStrategy edited by @dgbailey.bsky.social @gretegans.bsky.social @lisadepropris.bsky.social and @cgrisbath.bsky.social Co-Director @prt1969.bsky.social Please share widely 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...think.taylorandfrancis.comThe Re-emergence of Industrial Strategy 023
Reposted by Rick DelbridgePhil Tomlinson @prt1969.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Do you have a research paper on #coworkingspaces #thirdspaces? See @cssjournal.bsky.social Call for Papers. Special Issue edited by @fmfai.bsky.social & Ilaria Mariotti 👇🏼 @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social @edwardyates.bsky.social 055
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Very good advice here for all those university colleagues now facing redundancy. Do have a look also if you can feel the crisis getting nearer and nearer. 👇 02112
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/02/2025An entirely new financial settlement is needed in Higher Education - as many of us have been saying all along. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | EditorialEditorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed 35122
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeCCR Challenge Fund @ccrchallenge.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Congratulations to IQ Endoscopes for securing major new funding! The company's work is also supported through our #EndoscopyChallenge with @cavuhb.bsky.social @cedarcardiff.bsky.social @zvhilton.bsky.social @clivelloydspex.bsky.social @cherj.bsky.social @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.socialinsidermedia.comMedical device business secures multimillion-pound funding from BGF and Development Bank of Wales - Insider MediaA South Wales-based medical device business has secured multimillion-pound funding from BGF and Development Bank of Wales. 033
Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 07/02/2025From acorns… great to see the progress being made by one of one of our @ccrchallenge.bsky.social innovators 000
Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This is tragic. Michael was an inspiration and had many friends @cardiffunilib.bsky.social Thank you and RIP 000
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/02/2025‘We have to get over the feeling that any failed pilot is a waste of money. It is not, as long as you've learned something by doing it.’ NAO chief Gareth Davies on the need for innovation in public services and how the NAO will support this www.thetimes.com/article/9e71...thetimes.comUK public services ‘too expensive and not good enough’As demand outstrips budgets, the head of the National Audit Office calls for Whitehall to take risks and innovate — but to learn quickly from its failures 13414
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeDaniel Wincott @danielwincott.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Welsh Government “very disappointed” that nursing course on list of cuts ‘WalesOnline asked Cardiff University and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board whether they had discussed the proposed axing of the Cardiff University school of nursing ... So far neither has responded to those questions.’ 032
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/01/2025You can track the unfolding disaster at Cardiff University here LIVE, as one of the UK's constituent nations actually chooses to gut parts of its flagship HEI: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...walesonline.co.ukCardiff University job cuts as 400 roles go and courses axed – liveStaff say they are in shock as nursing, modern languages, and music are among degrees being axed with 400 jobs academic jobs at risk 14720
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGareth Enticott 🏴 @garethenticott.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Context: today Cardiff University announce proposals for 400 redundancies, including 15 in School of Geography, which will also be merged with school of social sciences... 108533
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeJim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Best of 2024: New British Academy interactive maps reveal cold spots in social sciences, humanities and arts in UK higher education – especially affecting disadvantaged students. Ruairí Cullen explainsbuff.lyThere are cold spots in arts, humanities, and social sciences provisionNew British Academy interactive maps reveal cold spots in social sciences, humanities and arts in UK higher education – especially affecting disadvantaged students. Ruairí Cullen explains 043
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Universities oversee strategic state infrastructure. They should never, ever have been put in charge of all that without much stronger strategic oversight: nor should Senior Management Teams have been unfairly loaded with tasks far, far beyond their pay grade. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...thecourier.co.ukDundee University dental school merger paused after principal's abrupt exitStaff were told plans for a merger had been put on ice hours after Iain Gillespie's sudden resignation was announced. 0166
Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Cracking gig last night. Thanks to @ianprowse.bsky.social and all the band and guests. See you next year! 021
Reposted by Rick DelbridgePaul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵 37709296
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeThe London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...thelondoneconomic.comEuropean Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on XThe EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries. 14565938111146
Rick Delbridge @clivelloydspex.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Nearly ready for the latest in our Changemakers series of events on data enabled decision making. #innovation #publicservices @ccrchallenge.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeMaxim Voronov @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Exciting news, organizational researchers! @orgstudies.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! And so are our co-editors-in-chief: @tzilber.bsky.social and @paoloquattrone.bsky.social 33313
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeIan McCarthy @toffeeman68.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Some intended and unintended effects of academic incentives on research. academyhealth.org/publications... 092
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/11/2024ICYMI we’ve launched a new beta tool using HESA data to track if university departmental closures are leading to geographical ‘cold spots’ for the availability of particular social science/humanities/arts subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...thebritishacademy.ac.ukMapping SHAPE provision in UK higher education 16339
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeBristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social · 18/11/2024This year marks 50 years since Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital. Work in the Global Economy is celebrating with a themed issue: Doing #LabourProcessTheory and Research 50 Years On. Register for the webinar here (Nov 21, 04:30 PM): ow.ly/scZA50U7Ngq #LaborStudies 0125
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024'The survey...recorded data from 365 institutions across 66 countries, showed enrolment fell by an average of 27% in Canada, 18% in the UK, and 6 per cent in the US. African countries reported no change, Asian countries a 4 per cent fall, and other European countries a 2 per cent increase.' 1/2timeshighereducation.comVisa clampdowns put brakes on international student mobilityGlobal survey finds that 41 per cent of institutions reported fewer international postgraduate students in this year’s intake compared to 2023 155
Reposted by Rick DelbridgeThe Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) Hub @lpiphub.bsky.social · 14/11/2024A new report by Dr Kostas Kollydas for the Local Innovation Policy Partnership Hub summarises skills policy across the UK and draws key learnings from place-based interventions related to skills. shorturl.at/2JLfh 1134