University of Liverpool is still a disgrace

The latest on the mischief at Liverpool we have noted before:

Sadly, the situation at the University of Liverpool still requires our attention. This will be a shorter email than update #2, with just three essential items of information for you.

1. Please share this which lays bare the reality of mismanagement at Liverpool and the human cost: 

The reality behind “Wellbeing Week”: How the University of Liverpool is tearing the lives of its staff apart 

2. Please support the upcoming strikes which have been called at University of Liverpool, a strike directly responding to these redundancies. Please also support a boycott of the University of Leicester which has its own redundancy programme. 

Tony Benn had a line that we should pay attention to how a government treats refugees, because it shows how they would like to treat the rest of us if they could get away with it. Similarly, everyone should pay attention to how Liverpool and Leicester are treating academics, because it shows what misguided management could do to the whole sector if left unchecked. This isn’t just a story about Liverpool or Leicester, it is a threat to research culture and the integrity of Universities as institutions of scholarship and learning across the board.

3. Open Letter specifically aimed a medical and clinical practitioners

If you are a medical or clinical practitioner and would like to show support to the health and life sciences academics facing redundancy at the University of Liverpool, please click on the link below. 

Please add your name to the letter by following this link

As before, I urge you - if you haven't already -  please write directly to the University of Liverpool and the Faculty of Health and Life Science management teams. They should hear about the reputational cost their plans represent for the University of Liverpool. If you have active collaborations or other work with the University, such as examining, I urge you to write and say that these redundancies put that work at risk.

Here are their emails:

Prof Janet Beer <[email protected]>

Prof Dina Birch  <[email protected]>

Prof Gavin Brown <[email protected]>

Prof Anthony Hollander <[email protected]>

Prof Wiebe van der Hoek <[email protected]>

Prof Fiona Beveridge <[email protected]>

Prof Louise Kenny <[email protected]>

Mr Kevan Ryan <[email protected]>

Mrs Niki Sandman <[email protected]>

Prof Zarko Alfirevic <[email protected]>

Prof Malcolm Jackson  <[email protected]>

Prof Callum Youngson <[email protected]>

Prof Matthew Baylis  <[email protected]>

Prof Iain Buchan, <[email protected]>

Prof Peter Clegg <[email protected]>

Prof Sonia Rocha <[email protected]>

Please forward this email to colleagues who may be able help or express support