@martinepurcell.bsky.social
Lecturer in Community Education. Exponent of radical love. Would-be comic, poet and singer. Flawed husband and dad. Lost cause?
University management teams when consultancy firms give them the same advice they've given everyone else:
31.03.2025 18:26 โ ๐ 153 ๐ 55 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 3In this exchange last week, the interim Principal at Dundee University canโt recall if anyone on UEG or Court thought that the idea of a ยฃ200k Transformation Director was a bad idea.
Douglas Ross MSP
โYouโre saying that we got rid of the incompetent ones, and the ones that are left are fine.โ
Was just looking for a copy of Diane Watt and Adele Jones' book on #Abasindi, it's just been reprinted. This is a very timely piece of writing about #Black #Female #activism in Manchester, based on Diane's doctoral thesis. Great reading
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They're hanging up the hi-vis , but they've achieved their mission: no new oil and gas licenses is UK Govt policy .
So , top work Just Stop Oilโ some may disagree with the method but they can't fault your motive .
The fight for a liveable planet continues .
Common sense stopgap measures to halt the meltdown in higher education? Or fiddling while Rome burns?
tacity.co.uk/2025/03/26/t...
.@georgemonbiot.bsky.social @georgiaes.bsky.social and I are today going public on our latest legal case - this is a dirty secret that businesses and regulators are in on.
All our legal work with @fightingdirty.bsky.social is crowdfunded. Please do donate. stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com
Another story demonstrating tge human impact if these savage cuts.
25.03.2025 12:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Our students know the score, and who is responsible for the financial position at the University.
Executives, and Court members who continue to ignore attempts to engage with them, need to resign.
Our wonderful colleague Usha explains how the current financial crisis and proposed 632 FTE job cuts is affecting her right now. Many colleagues feel the same way.
The "recovery plan" needs to be scrapped. It's had a devastating effect on staff and students.
#WeAreThe632
#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
This is one of the most gruesome raptor persecution cases I have ever heardโ yet incidents like this take place up and down the country every single year .
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
VIDEO: Chants of โshame on youโ as Dundee University staff and students hold campus protest
17.03.2025 16:56 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โCrass and inappropriateโ
Shane OโNeill agrees that including the number of proposed job cuts in the password for the โrecovery planโ was wrong.
But as he says here, this was not the 1st time he heard. He had learnt about it at uni meeting with witnesses.
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Acting Chair of Court was โbaffledโ by the University of Dundeeโs finances. And looks forward to the investigation helping to uncover what went wrong!
They still donโt know what went wrong at the University of Dundee.
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It is entirely right that the Scottish Parliament have invited Iain Gillespie to give evidence about the mismanagement uncovered at the University of Dundee.
He should attend and be held accountable.
The crisis at Dundee requires asking some hard questions and knowing what to do with the answer.
Yesterday, I sat with the some senior staff at @dundeeuni.bsky.social and asked them questions about the so-called recovery process, on behalf of staff and students.
History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
19.03.2025 10:11 โ ๐ 116 ๐ 107 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2Yesterday @maggiechapman.bsky.social asked Shane OโNeill about Equality Impact Assessments, which are designed to protect colleagues with protected characteristics during periods of change.
He said that an EIA had not been completed for the recovery plan.
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#wearethe632
They need to move out of the way. Make space for people committed to sustainability of the institution based on humanist values, nit micro economic dogma, and on the advice on bean counters. #wearethe632
20.03.2025 19:31 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The cuts to 632 posts announced by university executives hide behind the numbers.
Every post is a person, a valued colleague.
We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni
Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5203...
Proud of or CommEd students, standing up for the right to a broad education, and against the unjust cuts. #wearethe632
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Not a minute too soon ... damned for daring to embrace love as a core component of work with young people.
Meet Glenn Massacre , nationally appointed Crime Reduction Czar for the driven grouse shooting industry .
He thinks it's ok that 134 hen harriers are 'missing' or have been illegally killed since 2018 , most on or close to grouse moors .
Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!!
youtu.be/hycoCYenXls
I feel your pain ...
08.03.2025 10:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The University Executive Group have imposed a recruitment freeze at the a University of Dundee.
However, they are so short of the relevant skills required that they are advertising for a ยฃ200k Director of Transformation.
Itโs one rule for them and one rule for everyone else.
The BBC visited and reported our picket line this morning.
The comment from the University is wrong. We have already lost colleagues and many more are being threatened with redundancies.
Weโre acting now to save your jobs, our jobs at the University of Dundee.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Financial mismanagement.
STV reported on our strike yesterday. At the 9 minute mark, the Interim Principal owns up to financial mismanagement at the University of Dundee.
Where is the accountability?
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