Only one literary medievalist who worked on the Richard III project left standing, now facing immanent redundancy. However, the university will continue to profit from her research for years to come. Her statutory redundancy payment after 20+ years of work? Just shy of £14,500.

Nishan Canagarajah You gave students mouldy bread, didn’t give out dietary requirements on some, and dished out industrial food that would go off if you didn’t use it all in one. Like seriously? is a group of 6 really gonna eat 1kg of chopped tomatoes in one sitting?

“We create this one definition of blackness and assume everybody is going to fit under it, when that isn’t the case. Black women are not a monolith,” says Zakiya Dalila Harris. She talks to The Sunday Times about her book, The Other Black Girl. thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ot…

Tomorrow, hopefully many of us are going to be protesting at the centre of campus at 3pm onwards. The Leicester rent strike team would like to give everyone attending a few tips on how to be covid safe. A THREAD!

This thread contains some really useful info for anyone planning to attend tomorrow ⬇️

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Successful first protest Nishan Canagarajah you’re not liked at all

Full solidarity with Leicester UCU who are on strike later this week. This is in response to Nishan Canagarajah who refused to back down on the 26 compulsory redundancies (inc 4 in Library & Learning Services) & his eagerness to move onto phase 2, which includes IT Services #NoOneIsRedundant

Staff at University of Leicester begin strike action tomorrow in a fight to save jobs More than 100 staff have left over the past year, but the vice-chancellor has now handed a further 26 their redundancy notices #BoycottLeicester Leicester UCU Full story: ucu.org.uk/article/11606/…

Full solidarity!

More hypocritical nonsense from University of Leicester. This is from a Leadership team which has discriminated against protected characteristics to make staff redundant.

Students University of Leicester Leicester Students’ Union Leicester Student Magazine Do you know what's happening with your degree? Rather than negotiate with Leicester UCU to end marking boycott, senior managers are implementing dodgy practices to come up with marks👇 #ValueYourDegree #NoOneIsRedundant

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester is the brilliant @PattieMcCarthy Read about her new book "wifthing" and three poems from it here: …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2021/06/pattie… Apogee Press Everybody'sReviewing English, University of Leicester University of Leicester NAWE

Marking boycott campuses ‘playing fast and loose’ with standards timeshighereducation.com/news/marking-b… via Times Higher Education

Novelists issue plea to save English degrees as demand slumps. Authors blame government ‘prejudice’ against humanities, as loss of applicants hits university courses. English Association theguardian.com/education/2021…

I have resigned from University of Leicester. I was not at risk of redundancy. I have not been through the awful process that our colleagues had to endure, but I have experienced more than a glimpse of the lack of care, lack of interest, lack of human touch and lack of intellectualism

The University of Leicester has threatened students with the prospect of external debt collectors to recover unpaid accommodation fees. Toby (He/him) reports leicesterstudent.com/2021/06/21/uni…

Our UCU in 2 this week is for our students...here’s what’s happening with your assessments & dissertations & why University of Leicester assurances cannot be trusted. As our comms officer-elect says: “Do not stand for this” Leicester Student Magazine Leicester Students’ Union youtu.be/ptXlr0gTsF8

Tomorrow, between 12-1pm, I'll be online at the University of Leicester Digital Postgraduate Open Day - do come along if you'd like to talk about the MA in Creative Writing! le.ac.uk/study/postgrad… English, University of Leicester @Arts_UoL @UoL_BookClub UoL English Society NAWE College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

👀 A wonderful opportunity for students in English, University of Leicester! UoL English Society