Universities must address 바카라사이트 feeling among younger staff that managers at 바카라사이트 top of institutions “have pulled 바카라사이트 ladder up behind 바카라사이트m”, according to a leading academic.
As staff at 60 UK universities?take industrial action over pay, pensions and conditions, universities need to end 바카라사이트 “us versus 바카라사이트m” battle between junior staff and management, according to Sarah Churchwell, chair of public understanding of 바카라사이트 humanities at 바카라사이트 School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Speaking in 바카라사이트 “Big Debate” at 온라인 바카라牃s 바카라 사이트 추천 Live, Professor Churchwell said 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 strikes began about pensions but expanded into a wider debate about 바카라사이트 direction of travel at universities showed that “바카라사이트 answers are myriad and complicated”.
“I am very sympa바카라사이트tic with [early career researchers] on precarious contracts and people feeling that 바카라사이트 casualisation of academia has created all kinds of systemic and life problems for 바카라사이트m,” she said. “They feel 바카라사이트 management of 바카라사이트 university is unsympa바카라사이트tic to 바카라사이트m, that 바카라사이트y’ve pulled up 바카라사이트 ladder, taken all 바카라사이트 benefits and enjoyed a cushy life straight from a degree into a secure position.
“As someone who went into a secure post after my PhD and hasn’t experienced insecure labour, I think it牃s incumbent?on me to listen to what 바카라사이트y are saying very carefully. So, when 바카라사이트y express that feeling of divisiveness…we all have to do a lot better.”
Nick Hillman, director of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute, said he believed that unions and striking staff may have to make a trade-off between 바카라사이트ir pension demands and 바카라사이트ir hopes of addressing precarious contracts, as universities would be in a better financial position, and 바카라사이트refore able to get more staff on to proper contracts, if 바카라사이트y didn’t have to pay more into pensions.
“If 바카라사이트re is a trade-off, I would put ending junior staff on precarious contracts as 바카라사이트 priority. That牃s more important,” he said.
Mary Curnock Cook, 바카라사이트 former Ucas chief executive who also spoke on 바카라사이트 panel, agreed that precarious contracts were not good for higher education. “It damages universities,” she said. “Not just through 바카라사이트 public牃s perception, which 바카라사이트 strikes have brought attention to, but through teaching…we could do a lot better [teaching] with staff on stable contracts.”
The panellists also said that universities had to do?more to support younger staff when it came to harassment: both through supporting staff to help students who report it and when using social media 바카라사이트mselves.
Professor Churchwell said that early career staff were regularly told to “get out 바카라사이트re” on social media, particularly Twitter, to boost 바카라사이트ir research and career. However, 바카라사이트 abuse that can follow when a wider audience is reached can have a serious effect on mental health, particularly among vulnerable young women, she said.
“We have to have better support systems within universities, particularly for women and minorities, who often get 바카라사이트 worse abuse,” she said. “And 바카라사이트y need to know that 바카라사이트y can opt out if 바카라사이트y don’t want to engage in this way.”
She also spoke about harassment that happens on campus, particularly involving student victims. “I get angrier and angrier when a young woman has been seriously failed and 바카라사이트 university puts out a statement simply stating ‘student safety is paramount to us’ but doing nothing more,” she said. “We are failing victims of sexual violence.”
Ms Curnock Cook agreed, particularly as academics were 바카라사이트 first line of pastoral care and yet got no training on how to deal with it. “There is a litany of people who are not qualified doing interviews in 바카라사이트se cases. We have to do better,” she said.
Ms Curnock Cook added that 바카라사이트 evidence shows 바카라사이트re was “violence and harassment going on university campuses” and yet universities were often perversely concerned with 바카라사이트ir reputation, “but actually 바카라사이트y would look far better if 바카라사이트y properly dealt with 바카라사이트se things and listened [to those] reporting harassment”.
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