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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

With much regret I have written to @NCanagarajah notifying of my withdrawal from a funded project @UniLeicBusiness . I will have no part of what is happening right now @uniofleicester #BoycottLeicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

Didn’t meet threshold so I can’t: ❎ strike But I can: ✅ observe digital/actual picket lines ✅ donate to strike fund ✅ suspend editorial work ✅ get the coffees in Solidarity ✊ (and keep wrapped up)

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

I resigned from @UniLeicBusiness after 11 years when it became clear that the values of @uniofleicester could no longer be reconciled with my own. I have one remaining PhD student and one live funded project. Once they’re done, so am I with this callous and shameful institution

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

We wrote polite, well reasoned letters. We signed mass petitions. Many thousands of people have painstaking pointed out how and why @uniofleicester is wrong. And now we arrive at a place no academic and no institution ever wants to be

UCU

@ucu

3 years

🚨PRESS RELEASE🚨 UCU announces a global boycott of the University of Leicester. The university also faces a marking & assessment boycott that begins today. @leicesterucu @DrJoGrady @DavidHarvieUCU Full story here:

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Thinking of all my friends being unnecessarily and cruelly made redundant by @uniofleicester tomorrow. A disastrous backward step for @UniLeicBusiness . No good will come of any of this, for anyone involved

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

I can’t believe it has to be pointed out again that @uniofleicester can either sack colleagues in a pandemic or be serious about mental health. It indisputably cannot do both #BoycottLeicester

Caren Frosch

@CarenFrosch

3 years

Lots of colleagues have received notices of compulsory redundancies today. Does @uniofleicester really expect us to carry on as if nothing has happened? It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and I’m not sure I could feel any lower. #NoOneIsRedundant @leicesterucu #BoycottLeicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

This is real. Suddenly some goodness in the world

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

I did this same course four years ago. By the time I finished it, two out of the three facilitators had left @uniofleicester because they could no longer reconcile the institution’s values with their own. Sixth months later I was done too. What an employer! #boycottleicester

Gavin Brown 🏳️‍🌈

@lestageog

3 years

Two years ago I did the @uniofleicester 's Future Leaders Programme. One of my key take home messages from that was that I am highly motivated by my core values, and an effective leader when I believe my values align with those of the organisation I work for. Oh well, your loss!

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Simon was an exemplary Head of School. Caring, scholarly, supportive and fiercely protective of his staff. Under his leadership @UniLeicBusiness thrived and was a highly rated, internationally leading School. The difference from the current leadership could not be starker

Simon

@profsimonlilley

3 years

What's that Skip? Notice of dismissal for me because @UniLeicBusiness aims 'to be a sector leader with a strong sense of social purpose and enterprise' & thus must 'disinvest from research and scholarship in critical management studies and political economy'? Logic at its finest!

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

2 years

I can’t remember what the joke was. A good day and a great tie …

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

In ‘strange days at the office’ I’m up a mountain with Jan Zalasiewicz and Bruno Latour

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Hey @UniLeicBusiness @uniofleicester I hear you’re trying to make redundant all your world renowned academics in political economy and social dimensions of business. So how come these are the things you want to promote in the past couple of months? 1/n @leicesterucu

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

External examiners, professional associations, alumni, journal editors. Even members of the House of Lords. All respectfully saying @uniofleicester has got it very wrong. It really is time to listen #NoOneIsRedundant

Martin Paul Eve

@martin_eve

3 years

I have just tendered my resignation as an external examiner in the English department at the University of Leicester in response to the planned cuts to the programme and proposed redundancies.

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

@micheome Please repost this in Harvard style

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

We’ll be teaching this as a case study in mismanagement in the future. It already has a name ‘leicesterisation’. The only degree of control left to @uniofleicester is to immediately halt redundancies to negotiate a way out of permanent global academic boycott #boycottleicester

Jonathan Mills

@Muinchille

3 years

What exactly happened at @uniofleicester ? The answers relate mostly to governance failure, leading to poor management choices, leading to declining cash flows, whilst high risk, leveraged projects were committed to. Thread 👇

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

Saying goodbye to my Nan tomorrow. Working class woman from North London, her and my grandad gave me these when I was little. Much treasured, they opened up my world. Cheers Chris

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

@uniofleicester @leicesterucu @timeshighered Do you want to clarify why you failed to respond to the tens of thousands of academics have respectfully pointed out the problems with your unreasonable behaviour? Or do you just want to mark your own work?

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

1 year

Strong support from the geese of solidarity @UoNUCU #ucuRISING #ucustrikes

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

There are now so many pieces of evidence and testimony freely available in the public sphere that directly contradict practically every assertion here that one wonders whether this, in fact, richly nuanced performance art #BoycottLeicester

University of Leicester

@uniofleicester

3 years

We are disappointed by national UCU calling for an academic boycott of the University within UK and international communities. Read more here:

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

You can sack people in a pandemic or you can care about the mental health of your employees. You cannot do both

Leicester UCU

@leicesterucu

3 years

The University of Leicester are keen to bombard us with emails stating how much they care for our mental health and wellbeing during this pandemic. Colleagues threatened with redundancies are finding it hard to feel the love.

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

As a former employee @uniofleicester I’m really sad and disappointed to hear this. The university is not its senior managers or council. It is ALL STAFF, ALL STUDENTS, ALL ALUMNI. And what I hear from them is a call for an immediate change of direction from this disastrous policy

Dr Deborah Toner

@DeborahToner

3 years

3/ I've never seen staff morale so low @uniofleicester in 9 years I've worked here. That's saying something. We've been on strike 3 times for sustained periods since Feb 2018 because of terrible working conditions. We don't do that without major cause

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Thinking of friends and colleagues threatened with redundancy @UniLeicBusiness and other schools @uniofleicester with nonsensical and contradictory rationale. These are some of the finest teachers and researchers I’ve had the privilege to work with #NoOneIsRedundant @leicesterucu

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

⁦ @uniofleicester ⁩ ⁦ @UniLeicBusiness ⁩ think they can ride out the universal opposition to their ridiculous and ultimately illegal plans for sacking hard working colleagues. They are oh so very wrong #citizensofchange

Leicester University may strip professor of title over social media barbs

Peter Armstrong, 81, has been critical of management’s financial competence and ‘bullying’ tactics

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

I’ve spent the majority of my career teaching in Business Schools which typically return around 65/75% of their income to support STEM subjects which lose money hand over fist. And I’m delighted to do so because knowledge isn’t a competition and has intrinsic value

Natalia Cecire

@ncecire

3 years

I actually do enjoy the fact that arts and humanities are so intrinsically interesting, fun, and life-enriching that the government have a whole team dedicated to warning students off it, and loads of students are still like, yeah, no, I'm still going to do the awesome course.

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

@uniofleicester I am so disappointed that my atrocious actions have consequences #BoycottLeicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

@NeilDrysdale My struggle

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

No confidence in leaders from student and staff. Threats by management sent to staff, PGRs, emeritus. Work by researchers to be made redundant used for REF. Tell me again how this is ‘shaping for excellence’ ?? @UniLeicBusiness @uniofleicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Woke up with a vague creeping feeling of dread, but everything is actually OK because somewhere I know that there are alpacas on the grass in front of the well-being marquee

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Can I just say that none of this is even remotely ‘normal’. What the hell is going on with @uniofleicester and how on earth is this going to end?

Gavin Brown 🏳️‍🌈

@lestageog

3 years

This really is a shamelessly unethical move by @uniofleicester (not content with threatening the livelihoods of 145 people, they seem hell bent on undermining the integrity of their own brand)

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

My vote for UCU NEC clearly with @DrJoGrady An amazing colleague, committed activist and inspiration on the physical and virtual picket line. But you already knew that, right?

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

What a disaster for @UniLeicBusiness Marta is an outstanding academic who chose to come to @uniofleicester but is no longer willing to work there. It takes many years to build a successful university and months for the current managers to trash and demolish it #boycottleicester

marta gasparin

@martagaspa

3 years

I have resigned from @uniofleicester . I was not at risk of redundancy. I have not been through the awful process that our colleagues had to endure, but I have experienced more than a glimpse of the lack of care, lack of interest, lack of human touch and lack of intellectualism

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

2 years

Look what I just found in local shop @rolsi_journal Coming home with me, obvs

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

A rare moment of sunshine when this wonderful collection appeared in post. Congratulations on a fine looking second edition @reavey_paula ! 😍😍😍

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

This would break my heart had @uniofleicester @UniLeicBusiness not already done so some time ago. Such carelessness and ineptitude to turn against you those who have worked so tirelessly for you

Leicester UCU

@leicesterucu

3 years

"I am truly sorry that @uniofleicester has come to this; where even mediocrity is a dream to aspire to, where lies & half truths masquerade as knowledge... I wish the institution well... but it is in line to be the first British university to fail in centuries..." @NCanagarajah

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

@UniversitiesUK I’m furious at your inability to listen but you’ve also made me do this #IdRatherBeTeaching #USSstrike leicester @leicesterucu

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

2 years

Solidarity with all @ucu members striking today against the #USSmess . My branch didn’t meet threshold but I’ll see you on the #DigitalPicketLine #UCUstrike

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Why would you want to not have @DavidHarvieUCU working for you? An amazing scholar and committed teacher. For many years he gave his all to improving the undergraduate curriculum, benefitting tens of thousands of students

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

We can’t hear you. You’re on mute? YOU’RE ON MUTE Looking forward to not saying that for a few days

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

2 years

I spent the first half of last year in a perpetual state of disbelief and rage at the outrageous and unfair treatment of colleagues. A year later and I still feel the same - as do many, many others, no doubt

Dr Ronald Hartz

@ronald_hartz

2 years

Today marks the anniversary of one of the most disgraceful redundancy processes & management debacles in the recent history of UK HE, a dismal tale of authoritarian management and contempt for academic values and exhausted staff in a pandemic. You deserve better, @uniofleicester .

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

We have drums @leicesterucu @TheSocReview

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

@phillipinman @TheGraceK @DrJoGrady @GuardianEdu I was on the picket line last year with fellow Profs, Heads of Departments, College Directors and Members of Senate. Expect to do so again soon. Pay us a visit and maybe save the wild speculations until afterwards?

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Wonderful sets of talks and discussion #CriticalThinkingAndTheBusinessSchool The situation @UniLeicBusiness may be dire, but the opposition to it is near universal

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

@profsimonlilley was the very model of the engaged and supportive academic manager. He led by example with a strong ethical and moral compass. Is that no longer the way for @UniLeicBusiness ?

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

Our wonderful students have occupied the central admin building @leicesterucu @TheSocReview

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

I don’t think you can reason with a virus

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

I began my term as one of the editors @TheSocReview whilst employed by @UniLeicBusiness . The idea that this is not proper for business school research is plain wrong, damaging and profoundly offensive to both the sociological and business/management scholarly communities

Martin Parker

@ProfMartinP

3 years

@ProfessorAvi @UniLeicBusiness I, a sociologist in a business school for the last twenty five years, wrote a paper on that which was published in SOCIOLOGICAL Review, a sociology journal, which publishes papers about sociology. Not relevant to management and business those. Oh no.

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

And so yet another outstanding colleague at @UniLeicBusiness leaves to go to a far better institution. ‘Shaping for excellence’ is it @uniofleicester … ?

David Harvie – VCs: THEY ALL MUST GO

@realDavidHarvie

3 years

@martagaspa That is so great, Marta! 👏🥂🎉 & for the benefit primarily of @NCanagarajah , CBS is one of the world's top business schools. It welcomes the sort of critical scholarship – on such pressing questions as the Anthropocene, one of Marta's areas – deemed redundant at @uniofleicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

@Dourness Here you go. From happier times, the school of managements website from 2014 archived at I suppose they could have found it themselves, but that was never the point of the request I guess

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Just imagine what @uniofleicester could achieve if it worked with its phenomenally talented staff rather than against them … until then full support for @leicesterucu #boycottleicester

Richard Badge#StandWithUkraine

@richardbadge

3 years

A mammoth piece of pavement art in progress in Victoria Park. 72 Professors who signed an open letter to the University Executive Board, protesting compulsory redundancies... #NoOneIsRedundant @leicesterucu

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

If your job is impacting on your mental health then you are a) being poorly managed b) working in a disempowering structure that is not fit for purpose or c) both. But, hey, free bananas!

USSbriefs

@USSbriefs

6 years

'Despite acting as a superficial nod towards genuine mental wellbeing, “wellbeing” as currently used by employers and institutions is functionally useless.' (Guardian 20 July 2018) #YesUniCan #StepChange #StaffMentalHealth

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Original tweet 6 likes, this one 337 likes. And yet still @uniofleicester seem to think they can ride this out. Reputation now in the absolute toilet. Change now urgently required

Ben Cartlidge

@benjcartlidge

3 years

Famously discovered, with the help of famous academics, who are being famously sacked.

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Aren’t they amazing! 😍😍😍 #boycottleicester #NoOneIsRedundant

Leicester UCU

@leicesterucu

3 years

Lively stroll around campus today. Just love our drummers #LeicesterStrikesBack #NoOneIsRedundant

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

1 year

Both are prepared to occupy this box for as long as it takes for employers to see sense. Do not underestimate 🐈‍⬛ #CatsAgainstCasualization #ucuRISING #UCUstrike

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Double yes for @ucu ballot in the post. Would have been quadruple yes if the branch was eligible #FourFights #USS #OneOfUsAllOfUs

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Just seen a lad eating a whole viennetta straight out the wrapper outside the CoOp. This is the local lockdown hero I’ve been waiting for! 👍👏👍👏

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Two days done of our ECR virtual writing retreat @TheSocReview Lots of great work from our wonderful participants! Handing over to @reinventioncath for the next two days

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

Just received an email offering ‘extreme apologies’ and now I think I will never say sorry in any other way

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

Little known fact. Belinda Carlisle recorded ‘Heaven is a place on Earth’ after being inspired by a stopover at Milton Keynes Coachway

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

Jo is the change many of us want to see in UCU. This is the chance to get a grassroots informed, member led union. Go Jo! #Grady4GS

Jo Grady

@DrJoGrady

5 years

It’s official. There are 3️⃣candidates running in the @ucu General Secretary election & Im one of them. Thank you to all who have supported thus far, & who continue to offer support. Let’s do this ⚡️ #Grady4GS

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Three years ago @reavey_paula and I gave the Fifth Niels Bohr Professorship Lecture in Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University and engaged with lots of smart responses. Lost in time perhaps, but now in print

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Solidarity with @leicesterucu fighting the appalling attacks on academic freedom @uniofleicester #NoOneIsRedundant #boycottleicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Outstanding packaging from @BracketpressUK for Jason Williamson’s House Party @sleafordmods Ta!

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

My amazing sister is graduating with the OU today 😍😍 #OU_Ceremonies

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

I taught @GeorgeKokkinidi as a PhD students. An enormously talented scholar just beginning on his career. I think of his young family whose lives have been caught up with the vindictive institutional chaos of @uniofleicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

This really is quite a thread…Everything @uniofleicester has done in the past year is the exact opposite of ‘shaping for excellence’. It’s a hollow mistruth that has made the university an atrocious place to work and study. So we must #boycottleicester

Michael Okun

@michael_okun

3 years

Over the next couple of months our lab will be moving to Dept. of Psychology at University of Sheffield. I wish I could say that I am delighted to make this announcement, but the circumstances of this move are far from delightful. (1/13)

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

This is not helping my confidence in #USS decisions. The scheme is a significant factor in the career choices made by hundreds of thousands of staff. The very least we are owed is transparency.

USSbriefs

@USSbriefs

6 years

To be clear: We are currently in a situation where @Sam_Marsh101 wants others to be able to check his workings (a key scientific norm) and #USS is not allowing the data they provided to Sam to be seen by others #transparency

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

@DrJoGrady @chloevitry

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Solidarity with all @ucu members who - once again - have to take the unwanted measure of striking to ask for basic things from the HE sector like fundamental equality, rudimentary job security and competently managing deferred wages. It’s not that big an ask #OneOfUsAllOfUs

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

So it seems that there is now no alternative but to permanently #boycottleicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

The 26 compulsory redundancies planned are shocking, but also 115 voluntary leavers. Multiply that by the 3 waves of redundancy programmes @uniofleicester in the past few years and throw in thousands of demoralised colleagues remaining to see why you need to #boycottleicester

Leicester UCU

@leicesterucu

3 years

Powerful virtual picketing @rlcjones 115 colleagues lost since January, we can't afford to lose any more. #NoOneIsRedundant

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

This is appalling, shabby behaviour, creating enormous further anxiety for staff who have given their all to the institution during a pandemic

Leicester UCU

@leicesterucu

3 years

Welcome back to the start of term . @uniofleicester & @leicesterucu . Our leadership team has another perfect moment for you, today emailing hundreds of staff to tell them they, or others in their teams, are at risk of redundancy. The timing is brutal, the process shady 1/

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Getting a clear message today that I need to book some leave

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

I have only known @samdallyn a few years. A profoundly decent and modest scholar who, again, has a rich and rewarding career ahead with huge contributions to be made. But not at @UniLeicBusiness it seems

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

This is going to be fantastic. One of the most intellectually vibrant research centres in the history of @uniofleicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Solidarity with the outstanding academics being fired by @UEL_News A heritage of some of the finest work in culture and media studies in the UK deliberately dismantled #SaveUEL

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Day 8 in COVID jail after catching it last week (despite being double jabbed, always wearing a mask etc). Running out of things to fix now

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

Difficult to overestimate enough the importance of Gibson’s work to contemporary social science. Difficult to underestimate enough the acuity of the ‘strategic’ thinking around his redundancy #boycottleicester

*Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia* @JFEC on Mastodon

@EspinosaCristia

3 years

Professor Gibson Burrell is one of the international high distinguished scholars that are at risk of redundancy at the Leicester School of Management #boycottleicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

I know @ronald_hartz by reputation only as an amazing scholar whose work brought a much needed international dimension to @UniLeicBusiness I am sorry we did not have the opportunity to be colleagues and for the way he has been so egregiously treated by @uniofleicester

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

During the years I literally worked next door to ⁦ @DrJoGrady ⁩ I saw just committed she is to defending the rights of all colleagues. She is an amazing and inspiring organiser - just want we need in a GS. And I’m not alone in thinking that #Grady4GS

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Just tried using my UK passport in the electronic entry at Frankfurt airport and the system buffered for several minutes leaving me stuck between airlock gates whilst everyone else sailed through effortlessly Oh the symbolism!

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

External examiners are critical to maintaining academic standards. When they say they can longer in good faith support what you are doing, you need to stop and rethink ... #NoOneIsRedundant

Robin Burrow

@robin_burrow

3 years

Today I followed @DrKorica and resigned as External Examiner at @uniofleicester . I'm absolutely gutted to have to do it, but this is not an organization I can in good conscience any longer support.

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

Fantastic victory secured by #occupyleicester students @ULSU_President and @leicesterucu - another VC turns on @UniversitiesUK - let’s hope Leeds are next

Leicester UCU

@leicesterucu

6 years

We are pleased to announce that the following motion will be going to an emergency meeting of Senate on Tuesday. Proposed by @LeicesterUnion & supported by Leicester UCU, the VC and ULT!

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

These are wonderful, talented colleagues who have contributed so much to the success of @UniLeicBusiness over the years. This is shameful stuff

Leicester UCU

@leicesterucu

3 years

The current attempt by @uniofleicester bosses, led by @NCanagarajah , to restructure our university seems to involve a lot of score-settling and victimisation of trade union organisers. @ucu @DrJoGrady @The_TUC @TUCnews @leictuc @FrancesOGrady @JonAshworth @Keir_Starmer

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

The two biggest undergraduate programme IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY are Psychology and Business Studies. Any strategy that plans to makes excellent teachers in these two areas redundant is ... WATTT??? @uniofleicester

Leicester UCU

@leicesterucu

3 years

It's taken us a while to get our heads round what @uniofleicester 's shaping for excellent redundancies plans might mean for @UoL_NPB (Dept of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour) because, well... let's see 1/

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

2 years

Let me knock my head slowly against the desk and quietly ask why I entrusted my deferred wages to people who are strangers to ethics and accountability

Josephine Cumbo

@JosephineCumbo

2 years

The key points of this long thread: - #USS much-improved health is confirmed via a second deeper check - But #USS says no to passing on the benefits of the scheme's rosier health to members and employers before than the 2023 valuation.

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

What to make of this difference in reporting?

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Solidarity with everyone on the picket lines this morning. You are all ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #UCUstrikesback #UCUstrike

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Tear down all the statues. Memory is contestation

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

I had completely forgotten about these, which helped put together many a crisp sandwich at my grandma’s house in Freezy Water

🇧🇧🏳️‍🌈 / 🆓🇵🇸 m a r c u s

@marcusjdl

4 years

Are you even GenX if your nan didn’t have knives & forks from Sheffield like these

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

I know you’re a bit fed up with papers that have ‘affect’ in the title, but this one has added atmospheres

Affect theory and the concept of atmosphere

The concept of atmosphere is a way of emplacing affect and affect theory. Work in contemporary social geography has done much to demonstrate how elemental forces become enveloped in atmospheres. Ho...

www.tandfonline.com

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

6 years

If you fancy hearing me rattle on about commemorative silence and the value of looking into one another’s eyes, here you go:

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Why are we silent when conflict is loud?

Peter Hitchens; Rev Lucy Winkett; Neil Bartlett: Prof Steve Brown @ Imperial War Museum.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Not all superheroes wear masks ... But these ones do #theunaffordables 😍😍😍 @leicesterucu #UCUstrikesback

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

2 years

Merry Christmas and happy new cat distraction

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

4 years

Unimpressed with moving teatime back by an hour

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

3 years

This is eminently sensible and forward thinking. When your professional body calls it, you really ought to pay attention 👀👀👀 ⁦ @UniLeicBusiness ⁩ ⁦

A statement from the British Academy of Management regarding the value of preserving pluralism...

www.bam.ac.uk

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Steve Brown

@ProfSteveBrown

5 years

These are some of the finest, loveliest people I know and I love them for their strength, commitment and joy (plus *where applicable* beardiness and animal print) 😍👊😍

Jo Grady

@DrJoGrady

5 years

Today was a good day. This is what a defiant, fighting, and (importantly) joyful trade union looks like! N’night everyone. Rest well. #UCUStrikesBack