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UCU Commons newsletter #17, 20 May 2026

Dear subscriber Welcome to the UCU Commons newsletter, a curated set of links and information about what's happening in UCU Commons, our union, and our sectors more generally. As always, we welcome any feedback you may have on this or any other matter. This edition of the newsletter

UCU Commons newsletter #5, 3 December 2025

Dear subscriber Welcome to the UCU Commons newsletter, a curated set of links and information about what's happening in UCU Commons, our union, and our sectors more generally. As always, we welcome any feedback you may have on this or any other matter. In today's issue:

NEW: Where is the government in the UK HE jobs crisis?

A third blog post from Matt Barnard, our candidate for the UK-wide casual vacancy

Imposters: a new blog post by Matt Barnard

On the threat of anti-trans ideology to the pursuit of academic enquiry

New: Alienation in Academia and a World Without Experts

A new blog post from our UK-wide NEC seat candidate, Matt Barnard.

Help your UCU Higher Education reps decide what we should do next for our pay dispute

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Vote in UCU NEC's Casual Vacancy Elections!

Dear subscribers, As you may have already heard, voting opens today for two casual vacancy elections on UCU’s NEC. One is for a UK-elected seat, and the other is for a North East regionally elected seat, and these were created when Ann Gow and Andrew Feeney were elected

Protect Education Now: national rally on Saturday 10 May

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A Decade of Crisis

A piece by Dr Dave Hitchcock for History Workshop

The NEC Election Results

Dear subscribers, Now that the NEC election results are available, we thought we’d share our initial analysis and reflections. First of all, we want to say again how proud we are of our campaign, our slate and our team. It takes guts for people to put themselves out there,

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