Employment issues

Female researchers who socialise less with male colleagues less likely to feel supported in the workplace

Lecturer in modern gender history only required ‘until the substantive postholder returns from maternity leave, or in the event of her resignation’

Union members at 152 UK institutions asked to walk out for fourth time in little over three years

Valentina Azarova declines to take human rights position, but CAUT suspends censure and claims academic freedom win

Mix of survey and employment data offered as caution to those blaming high costs on administrative bloat

FoI requests suggest some UK institutions have spent just a few hundred pounds per academic over the past six years

Permanent rather than casual staff now being targeted, report suggests, but expert queries data underpinning the analysis

Acknowledgment comes days after apology from Melbourne

Lisa Tilley cites impact on staff and students of ‘proximity’ to former department head’s ‘far-right followers’, plus ‘sickening environment’

Proposed redundancies target science, engineering and IT – disciplines supposedly favoured by funding reforms

Analysis of Australian job advertisements points to recovery, particularly in non-traditional research

Scholars who have stayed at home concerned about ‘double standards’ on salary, funding and promotion

At partisan moment, governing regents pursue new processes allowing for firing of tenured faculty

Whitlam and HECS fostered a ‘social psychology’ of indifference towards higher education, Australasian conference hears

Course cut critics castigate Australian institution for using data selectively, as sociologists elsewhere watch on nervously

Union members overwhelmingly back action even as number of compulsory redundancies slashed to two

University insists historian Garrett Felber was let go for failing to communicate effectively with department chair

Policy revamp aims to tackle gender inequality

Easing of pandemic a moment for many campus presidents to take a break and others to be pushed out

Publishing a well-received paper could boost a scholar’s income by $13,500, says US study

Pandemic drove down wages at two-thirds of institutions, AAUP annual survey finds

Sizeable number of staff members struggled over course of pandemic and are suffering from chronic stress and exhaustion, researchers say

Hundreds of roles at risk as fresh wave of coronavirus restrictions sweeps across country

University council backs shuttering despite widespread opposition

Four different datasets, four different stories: Australian university staffing statistics ‘impossible to reconcile’

North-west institution is second university to be ‘greylisted’ by UCU in three months

Contractual agreement guarantees associate lecturers pay rise and annual salaries, following recent delay and five years of negotiations

As row over redundancies shows no sign of easing, academics see deeper-rooted problems of mismanagement

Covid redundancy terms include non-disclosure and non-disparagement obligations, as corporate HR culture captures universities

Secret lists of preferred papers have been circulated prior to computer science meetings to help favoured scholars get ahead, says US professor

New programme for universities modelled on version that increased racial equity within NIH’s own laboratories

Scholars, fed up with decades of living from contract to contract, force government to remove video that seemed to celebrate insecurity

Australian review finds that the switch from clinical practice into the ‘sausage factory’ of academia can elevate stress levels – even among the most stressed

University accused of destroying notes from a meeting, which it says is standard practice

Universities offer many rewarding technical careers – but local populations are often oblivious of them, says Mike Hughes

Wide-ranging survey of mothers working in higher education reveals institutions’ inconsistent and often ineffective responses

Headhunters and scientists have reported waning interest in UK research roles, citing high cost of visas and healthcare as a key deterrent

Report author says increasing funding would only lead to more insecurity, and culture shift is needed instead

But author of 2012 paper on staff qualifications says it is likely to be ‘norm and expectation’ that many academics have a doctorate  

Surveys reveal widespread support among professional staff for working remotely at least some of the time

Scholars launch bid to create co-working spaces for researchers in cities around UK

Covid wave has revealed a deadly lack of welfare and job security

Almost a third of university employees globally are on contracts lasting less than two years, according to THE data

THE’s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question

Employers up their offer at final negotiations but UCU says they should ‘reward the extraordinary efforts staff have made’ during Covid-19

Move online may have been green but could damage impactful research, THE’s UK Academic Salon hears

Industrial action continues despite university reducing number of planned redundancies and revising selection criteria

University and College Union ‘grey-lists’ institution, asking academics to refuse to have any dealings with it

New study by elite university group says open-ended contracts, not rolling one-year deals, should become ‘norm’ for UK research staff

Former Huddersfield lecturer claimed his mental health suffered due to increased workload of mandatory doctoral study 

Union threatens strikes and marking boycott after staff identified for redundancy based on research grant income and citation impact scores

In year before REF census, at a handful of institutions more than two-thirds of staff were reclassified 

Faculty group’s first boycott order in decade affirms pro-Israel interference, but president Meric Gertler pushes back

Union passes motion in favour of industrial action over risk to 145 staff

Senior scholars increasingly victims of gossip, muttering and insubordination, researchers say

Salary boost might be more effective than legal crackdowns in thwarting international recruiting and funding approaches, argues Oklahoma representative

Academics say its ‘unethical’ for universities to profit from work done by researchers who have since lost their jobs

Paper says machine learning method to shortlist candidates for a role reveals an employer's priorities   

Shortly after highlighting ‘game-changing’ study, tweet is pulled after critics point out the researchers involved could lose their jobs

Sector leaders acknowledge ‘errors’ but deny deliberate withholding of pay