Commons Mail 1: Let's Make a Start
Joining UCUC, NEC elections, and anti-precarity
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Precarity, Risk, and Hypocrisy in the Modern University
by Ben Pope
The institutional solidity which we associate with the ideal university is produced only through successful management of the enormous risks involved in the creation of knowledge. Yet the modern university has abdicated its responsibility for managing these risks, and prefers instead to offload them on to the
(Archived) NEC elections (2021)
The 2021-22 round of elections for UCU’s National Executive Committee (NEC) will open on Thursday 27 January 2022 and close on Tuesday 1 March 2022. UCU Commons is putting forward the following candidates.
UCU Commoners: Why we are organising
UCU Commons began in the autumn of 2020 as an unnamed and informal group of staff and early career researchers who are all active in the University and College Union.
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