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.

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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)

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

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…

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...

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.

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...

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

What are the risks and dangers for staff following the Executive Orders freezing aid and gutting health and science organisations and institutions?

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Black communities using mapping to document & restore a sense of place | Analysis: Black History Month Black people have historically used mapping to document their stories. Today, communities are using “restorative mapping” as a way to tell stories of Black Americans.

Check out this for #BlackHistoryMonth! Especially relevant for @geographers.bsky.social & @americangeo.bsky.social How Black communities use mapping to document & reclaim a sense of place. Thanks @tucsonsentinel.com for re-publishing piece @theconversation.com www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...

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?

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.

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…

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

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

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