The minutes from May meeting of council University of Leicester show how council had already decided there was nothing wrong with the ‘shaping for excellence’ farce. Note by the timing that the chair had clearly already decided the outcome of the appeals, which were yet to take place.

Vice-Chancellor Peter Mathieson is paid a salary of £340,000, £42,000 in pension contributions, full expenses, a free five-bedroom house in New Town, & not one but two 24-hour chauffeurs. The Uni paid £26,000 to relocate his cat. When challenged, he said it was "complicated."

Yes, it was the senior management University of Leicester and School of Business that defined our call for a change in management education to tackle the problems of the #anthropocene and to inspire for #ClimateAction “esoteric concepts”

You'd have thought that managerial bullying and anti-trade unionism would have no place in University of Leicester either, but look at what's just happened

This is an interesting report. University of Leicester scored 0% on workers’ right. Who would have ever imagined that sacking critical management and highly respected scholars without a complete lack of humanity would impact the rankings?

Congratulations to University of Leicester, subject of 2021's no. 1 post on the career guidance and social justice website! Leicester UCU …erguidancesocialjustice.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/our…

Anyone know what this means? "We are looking for a Head of Organisational Development to lead and work collaboratively across the University to create a new Organisational Development Plan in line with the University's strategic aims and values.

Sob.

#OCR a Christmas race instagram.com/martagaspa/p/C…

.University of Leicester: another university whose bosses prefer buildings to brains.

An excellent opportunity to explain the following statement. "The Respondent (University of Leicester) does not accept that it is contractually obliged to follow the University Research Code of Conduct" Are these the principles of a respectable University?

President Zelensky has survived at least three assassination attempts in the past week, The Times has learnt thetimes.co.uk/article/zelens…

Today I learnt that the Council of University of Leicester has decided to strip me of my title of Emeritus Professor. I must confess that I am fully in sympathy with this decision. /2

President Zelenskyy's reports of the torture by Russian soldiers on Ukrainian civilians were harrowing He told us of the people shot in the streets, people with limbs cut off, tongues cut out & women gang raped in front of children 🇬🇧will not rest until there is accountability

Satisfaction! Dr_Quinny - for the paper Gasparin & Quinn (2020). Designing regional innovation systems in transitional economies: A creative ecosystem approach. 52(2):621-640 instagram.com/p/Ce6Ec--KbGq/…

My paper on #craft as #technology is now published in the special issue of Organization Studies

We didn’t win, but it was still super cool to be nominated among the Best Papers for the ENTDivision_AoM at Academy of Management 2022 with @mariocampana marta gasparin and Amanda Shantz for our paper Unconventional entrepreneurship: shaping practices within Fablabs journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.546…