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Rachael Squire @squirerachael.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures. www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Having just come from a teaching session focused on the emotional geographies of the university amidst strike action in the face of compulsory redundancies at Newcastle, this resonated. (For clarity, today is not a strike day)

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I'm actually raging at what's happening in Cardiff, and the callous treatment of friends and colleagues by a nakedly incompetent leadership class. Read this and weep: voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Two 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…

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Nothing more motivating on the metro to work than talking to a colleague about upcoming redundancies and strikes. The uncertainties and anxieties undermine months of our work - teaching, research and service - and are no good for staff or students. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Newcastle University staff to strike for 14 days in March

It follows the approval of plans to cut about £20m from its salary bill, affecting some 300 jobs.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

What are the risks and dangers for staff following the Executive Orders freezing aid and gutting health and science organisations and institutions? www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Researcher and practitioner safety and wellbeing are also ethical issues of concern

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

No wonder the repeated calls to volunteer for redundancy aren't making a difference. Not cos staff aren't fed up - the latest staff survey (the one they tried to strip open-text response boxes from) proves that. But how many people are going to knowingly make their colleagues lives worse by bailing?

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is very tough to take from an institution that has spent much of the last decade building its property portfolio, including a £100 million business school which is so ill-conceived that it is too small to house all staff and students.

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Durham UCU Statement on Durham University Proposals to Cut Staff Costs by £20 million – Durham UCU

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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social

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Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments

By the States of Precarity Team:, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, James Esson, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman, Rachael Squire (corresponding author) “Because geography is about attention to difference an…

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Rachel Colls @rachelcolls.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ah Lou so sorry to hear this news. Sending much love x

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Job Alert - @GeogDurham is seeking applications for two permanent Human Geography Assistant Professorships - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11:59pm on 12th January 2025

durham.taleo.net

Assistant Professor in Human Geography (GEOG_01 %26 02)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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