... not accountable? A Professor at a reputable university and a recipient of the Brian Mercer Award for Innovation uses his PhD students to do work relating to the commercialisation of his invention but claims in the annual PhD reviews, sent to the Dean of the faculty, that the students did work of academic quality. He then asks one specialist researcher, towards the end of the PhD student's research, to act as a co-supervisor. This gives him the incentive to include the specialist researcher's own work in the PhD student's theses. He spreads the academic work done among the PhD students. An old story, No?!
Anonymous
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Rosa sat so Martin could walk
Martin walked so Obama could run
Obama ran so our children can fly
Told to me at the UCU conference last week
The conference addressed the issue of workplace bullying
So well done Sally
A huge step forward
There is now a sense of progress in that UCU are speaking out about work place bullying
People at the conference spoke out about the actions they had taken and the support they had received from UCU officials and others in their university
There are clearly UCU officials who have the moral courage to dare to speak out and support their members...
They were at the conference
This contrasts sharply with my own experiences where the UCU officials I have dealt with at both local and regional level appear to be cowed with fear
So there is still much fear and little 'sitting down' to challenge workplace bullying...
But we have I believe started to voice a challenge now ... there is a feeling in the air that others may dare to challenge and speak out... even if in a whisper...
Thanks in huge part to this blog and the dedication of those who run it
There is still a hell of a way to go
My own context - I believe- remains a seedbed of collective denial at all levels
So no challenging there
I remain a lone voice
There are days when it makes me so ill that I can hardly get out of bed as I curl up in a foetal position reduced to a sobbing exhausted wreck
But there are the other days when I go in and challenge them... on my own... no UCU official by my side at my university...
There are times when I can imagine what it might be like if others sat down with me and challenged their working practices that feel to me like workplace bullying...
But as yet... apart from this blog... I am a lone voice
Keep with us Sally - we need you... so much...
At the conference UCU called for collective action...
UCU must become a force to be reckoned with in the drive to challenge universities to acknowledge the workplace bullying that they condone...
No more secret out of court compromise agreements with the lone staff who dare to challenge
There are better ways to spend public funds
You know it makes sense
Bullying can and does KILL
So speak out against workplace bullying
Today
You know it makes sense
Aphra Behn
I know this situation well.
During my studies for my M. Sc., there were rumours about my supervisor having published data obtained by one of his Ph. D. students without that student's knowledge or permission, let alone giving him credit.
During my thesis research, I read some papers written by that supervisor. He could have produced one excellent publication with the data he had but, instead, half of it went into one paper, half into another, and half the data from each of these papers went into a third. Amazing: three papers for the price of one!
The supervisor died a few years ago. His obituary described him in glowing terms, emphasizing his generosity and the sacrifices he made for his students. When I was his student, he was nothing of the sort. I knew him as a work-shy incompetent who freely exploited others to maintain his reputation. Either he underwent a miraculous transformation or somebody wrote fairy tales about him.
El Cid
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