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Queens UCU: probation petition

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Jeannine Woods
10 years ago

This poor and unjust treatment of staff is not only detrimental to those directly affected, but will have negative effects on the institution as a whole over the longer term.

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Caroline Renehan
10 years ago

I fully support this petition.

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Aileen OCarroll
10 years ago

It reflects very badly on Queen's senior managment and senate that they value their staff so little and seek to treat them so badly.

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Lawrence Berg
10 years ago Featured

Our research shows that this kind of neoliberal management is unsustainable in terms of the long term health and welfare of academic staff. The wider research suggests that this leads to lower 'productivity' in the long term, and only works when universities operate so as to abandon academic staff and constantly brin in new staff to fill the place of those it leaves behind.

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A Jamie Saris
10 years ago Featured

The strength of any institution is in its new staff. Unreasonable expectations do not result in more productive researchers, but in demoralized workers and poor scholars. I respectfully urge the QUB administration not to damage the institution in this fashion.

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Tara mc Guigan
10 years ago

How can a university expect staff to working under such conditions to be productive?

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Mike Jennings
10 years ago

Your colleagues in the Irish Federation of University Teachers support you fully in this important campaign

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Cian OCallaghan
10 years ago

This policy is unjust and unrealistic.

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Peter Murray
10 years ago

This is a shameful way for any university to treat its members of its staff

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Sherlly Alceus
10 years ago

This means academics will be more concerned with raising funds than in helping students which does not bode well for grades and Russell Group placement

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Caitlin Deeds
10 years ago

My mum is doing her PHD at the minute and I hope to do the same and study at queens to do so as i will be applying for my undergrad courses next year!!

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Christopher Steenson
10 years ago Featured

The pressure being placed on academic stance is crippling Queen's reputation as a University. Setting crippling funding targets for researchers means that teaching standards are suffering and the training of promising research students is being sidelined completely.

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Karen Trew
10 years ago

QUB is employing some superb young people from all over the world - extra stress is not encouraging them to stay here

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Stewart Smyth
10 years ago Featured

QUB has been out of touch on probation for years. After extending my own into a fourth year, I was told a decision would not be made until just before the end of my probation period. Naturally, I looked for alternative employment and secured a permanent post and a promotion in another research intensive institution, with the same CV that QUB wouldn't make me permanent on.

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Kieran Coyle
10 years ago

I thought it was only our political system was this dis functional but apparently the management of good old QUB is embarrassingly draconian too.

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Brian Kelly
10 years ago

I fully support this initiative. QUB management seems blissfully unaware of the damage they are doing to staff morale right across the university through this and other means.