Welcome to the Summer 2026 Newsletter of UCU at Queen’s University Belfast

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

Stop redundancies at Ulster University

Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London, have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action in a fight to protect jobs, UCU announced today.

Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no universi...

UCU Survey of Members' Experiences of Racism within the Union and Workplaces 2026.

YouTube video by UCU - University and College Union

The USS trustee board has recently concluded a review of the methodology to be used in the 2026 valuation and has confirmed that it intends to incorporate a number of UCU proposals.

Press/Statements

Staff at the University of Essex are being asked to back strike action over plans to close the university's Southend campus and axe 400 jobs.

Coventry University is facing an unprecedented jobs and debt crisis under the leadership of vice-chancellor John Latham. The institution is threatening to sack 300 staff and rehire some of them in its...

The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.

The University and College Union (UCU) has today (Thursday 30 October) announced further strike action at the University of Nottingham as part of its ongoing dispute over vicious job cuts

As New York City’s mayor-elect reiterated his policies, the president posted ‘And so it begins!’ on his social media

Staff at Edinburgh University have voted to continue strike action over proposals to cut £140m from the institution’s annual budget.

Hope hangs by a thread for an Irish-Palestinian family split between Ireland and Gaza, who say they feel abandoned by the Irish Government and fear their loved ones will be killed.

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...