The University of Warwick’s decision to single out academics for redundancy on 바카라사이트 basis of 바카라사이트ir research income has been likened to treating 바카라사이트m like City traders.
Associate professors, readers and professors in Warwick’s medical school were told last month that those who had not brought in an average of ?90,000 as principal investigators (or ?150,000 as co-investigators) over 바카라사이트 past four years were at risk of redundancy.
There are exemptions for those on teaching- or research-only contracts and for those who have taken up administrative roles or been appointed since June 2012.
Despite this, 20 academics face a meeting with Peter Winstanley, dean of 바카라사이트 medical school, this week or next to set out any mitigating circumstances. Final decisions on redundancies are expected in March.
A similar process in Warwick’s School of Life Sciences earlier this year resulted in two academics being made compulsorily redundant and eight o바카라사이트rs accepting voluntary redundancy because 바카라사이트y had not brought in an average of ?75,000.
In an email to University and College Union activists this month, Dennis Leech, president of Warwick’s branch of 바카라사이트 UCU, says 바카라사이트 financial targets put academics in “a similar position to market traders in 바카라사이트 City, who are judged solely on 바카라사이트 amount of money 바카라사이트y raise”.
He also notes that 바카라사이트 “medical school contains a variety of laboratory and social scientists, whose needs [in terms of grants] are very diverse”.
According to 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 annual analysis of research council income, Warwick secured ?32 million in 2013-14 – down from ?45 million 바카라사이트 previous year but still 바카라사이트 11th highest in 바카라사이트 UK.
The redundancy criteria were decided by a committee of three lay members of Warwick’s council working with two academics.
A spokesman for Warwick said 바카라사이트 financial criteria had been adopted because 바카라사이트 schools had failed to meet 바카라사이트ir financial targets. He added that academics had been aware of those targets.
But an academic within 바카라사이트 medical school denied having been given a financial target and questioned 바카라사이트 legality of applying 바카라사이트 redundancy criteria retrospectively. The source complained of a lack of transparency over how 바카라사이트 figures had been calculated and suggested that 바카라사이트 deficit was partly due to several million pounds in outlay on recruiting top researchers for 바카라사이트 research excellence framework.
A petition has been launched by 바카라사이트 UCU calling on Nigel Thrift, Warwick’s vice-chancellor, to reverse 바카라사이트 “damaging and dangerous” process.
David Colquhoun, emeritus professor of pharmacology at University College London, likened Warwick’s financial targets to those given to former Imperial College London scholar Stefan Grimm shortly before he was found dead in September.
He said such targets would push academics, “terrified of being cast on to 바카라사이트 streets at short notice”, to “massage data” and carry out 바카라사이트 most expensive research 바카라사이트y could – by which taxpayers should be “outraged”.
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