University of Essex UCU petition: guarantee our working conditions

University of Essex UCU petition: guarantee our working conditions

This petition was developed by members of academic departments and UCU local branch. It seeks support from all members of academic staff (whether permanent or fixed-term, senior or probationary, union members or not).

Dear Vice-Chancellor,

• In September 2017, approximately one-eighth of the research-active staff were sent letters warning that their positions might be in danger, including the invocation of Capability proceedings to remove them from their jobs. This represents an alarming increase in the use of Capability at Essex. It is evidence not of individual failure of academics but a system that creates failure. As the eminent sociologist C. Wright Mills argued, if there are 1-2 people unemployed in a city, we may look to their individual psychology for answers, but if it is 5-10% of the population, then it is a social not an individual problem.
• This development is linked to the invention at Essex of an internal REF process, requiring all researchers to achieve 4 publications which judges in our Depts. believe to be 3* – two of them accepted by September 2017 – even before national REF targets had been set. We now know only one is required. Linking this setting of internal publication targets to job security,is an unprecedented move, practically unique to Essex, and one that has led to a widely-perceived de-professionalisation of academics and job threats. It also represents mission creep: Capability procedures have never been systematically used for this before.
• Another extremely serious issue, again unique to Essex, is the declaration by senior management that academics with probationary status are not “academic staff”. This curious claim is not just a matter of semantics – it appears intended to deny probationers the protection of Ordinance 41 which covers procedures for capability, disciplinary, grievances, and redundancy that management cannot easily change, and guarantees academic freedom and “the principles of justice and fairness”. (Links below.)
• The national President of UCU, Joanna de Groot, when she visited Essex this month, expressed shock at this move and questioned the wisdom of the senior management failing to recognise probationary staff as “academic staff”, given the possible impact this may have on hiring the best new staff in future. She rightly insisted probationers are certainly not fixed-term staff and are entitled to the same protections as other academics.

We, the undersigned University of Essex staff:

• Believe that our working conditions are student learning conditions; a University which aims for the best student learning must guarantee the best working conditions for its staff.
• Insist that Capability procedures should not be invoked routinely on the basis of internal REF targets.
• Insist that senior management recognize that probationers are “academic staff” and are covered by Ordinance 41.
• Seek a commitment that ALL probationers University-wide are given adequate relief from teaching and administration, and independent routes by which they may confidentially raise any concerns about lack of support, unreasonable teaching loads, or pressure from Dept. leadership.
• Expect leadership in Depts (including HoDs and Research directors), Schools (including Executive Deans), and senior management across the University (including Human Resources) to take a primarily supportive, inclusive and positive stance towards colleagues who need assistance. There is no room for a negative or punitive approach to our colleagues.
• Expect leadership to consistently uphold the highest standards of openness, accountability, integrity, objectivity and indeed all of the Nolan principles; to operate under proper and effective oversight by the members of the University,e. transparency about where and how decisions are made, where responsibility lies and clarity about how decisions may be questioned and challenged; and to observe existing principles, policies and protections.

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Signed:

447	Shirley Reynolds	University of Reading
446	Jordan Sinfield	University of Essex
445	Vesna Stojanovik	University of Reading
444	Caren Frosch	leicestershire		Leicester
443	Tom Johnstone	University of Reading		This is shocking and outrageous. Such policies clearly originate from people who don't have a clue what research is about, don't have a clue about leadership, and would see the destruction of the UK's world-renowned Higher Education system.
442	Christos Pliatsikas	University of Reading
441	Arpita Bose	University of Reading
440	Lotte Meteyard	University of Reading
439	David Field Field	University of Reading
438	Judith Ellis	University of Reading
437	Philip Beaman	University of Reading
436	Patricia Riddell	University of Reading
435	Gary Cassidy	Bath Spa University
434	Simone Knox	University of Reading
433	Fauziah Oladunjoye	CO4 3SQ
432	Ellie Palmer	University of Essex
431	Amanda Kent
430	Patrick Lown	University of Essex
429	Stephanie Potter	University of York
428	Isabella Johansson	University of Essex
427	Katherine Sang	Heriot–Watt University		This has been tried before at other institutions. REF is not research, it is *one* metric, and it's vital that those who researchers are given the support and time to do so, in order for the UK to be at the forefront of developments.
426	Yiannis Gioukas	University of Warwick
425	June Mc Cready	University of Warwick
424	Jerzy Kociatkiewicz	University of Sheffield
423	Edzia Carvalho	Dundee
422	Edina Harbinja
421	Amy Isard	University of Edinburgh
420	Nicola Pratt	University of Warwick
419	John Mullen	Université de Rouen, France
418	Alita Nandi	University of Essex
417	Balazs Szent-Ivanyi	Aston University
416	Timothy Swann	University of Hertfordshire
415	Diane Nelson	University of Leeds
414	Scott Brown
413	Helena Carrapico	Aston University
412	Adi Kuntsman	Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)
411	Karen Dennison	University College London (UCL)
410	Mark Bennister	Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU)
409	Lorenza Fontana	Newcastle University
408	Anna Clover	University of Glasgow
407	Dr Álvaro Martínez-Perez	University of Sheffield
406	Mark Bryan	University of Sheffield
405	Claire Moran	Queen's University of Belfast (QUB)
404	Cathy McClive	FSU
403	Coreen McGuire	University of Bristol
402	Anindya Raychaudhuri	University of St Andrews
401	Tanya Serisier	Birkbeck College, University of London
400	Liza Blackman	University of East Anglia (UEA)		As someone who wants to become a lectuer this is deeply disturbing
399	Catherine Gander	Maynooth University		This kind of corporatised, counter-productive practice is highly detrimental to UK HE and one of the reasons I left it.
398	Bruce Baker	Newcastle University		Well done, VC! I'm sure that all the departing staff, rock-bottom morale, and terrible publicity this is generating for Essex will be more than made up for by an incremental gain in REF scores. Ask the remuneration committee for a well-deserved pay rise of a few tens of thousands for this brilliant bit of university management!
397	Faith Binckes	Bath Spa University		A stunningly bad policy on every level, damaging to staff and to the reputation of the University of Essex. Would it stand up to serious legal scrutiny, never mind an appeal process were 'capability' to be invoked or staff to be recategorised?
396	Caroline Heycock	University of Edinburgh
395	Philip Langeskov	University of East Anglia (UEA)
394	Michael Pierse	Queen's University of Belfast (QUB)		Shocked and outraged by this development at Essex. This will affect your ability to recruit both students and staff. It will also cause many staff unnecessary levels of anxiety.
393	Simon Middleton	University of Sheffield
392	Pam Birtill	University of Leeds
391	Alex Sharpe	Keele University
390	Dr Jane Krishnadas	Keele University		Universities need to assessed on research environments which is the true reflection of how knowledge creation is supported, progressed and shared.
389	David Owen	University of Southampton
388	John Gilmore	University of Warwick		Essex's policies appear to be counter-productive bullying designed by people who have no idea of what the processes of worthwhile research are actually like. If you really want top-quality research outputs, you need to treat your staff properly, not subject them to routinised harassment.
387	Arianne Shahvisi	University of Sussex
386	Sue Wharton	University of Warwick		Essex management seem to be invoking capability proceedings in 2018 on the basis of subjective judgments about a person's likely publications by 2020. This is bullying. It's also counter-productive if what Essex want is a good REF submission.
385	Pierre Bocquillon	University of East Anglia (UEA)
384	Stijn Smismans	Cardiff University
383	Lee Jones	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)		This is incredibly shocking. No one in their right mind should work for Essex unless this truly disgusting initiative is promptly withdrawn and management apologises to the university's hard-working staff. They are the ones who make the university what it is - not managers.
382	William McEvoy	University of Sussex
381	Saladin Meckled-Garcia	University College London (UCL)		Disgraceful vandalism by Essex University Senior Management: time to call time on people running academia that do not have academic values at heart
380	Toni Haastrup	University of Kent
379	Dafina Paca	Cardiff University
378	Annabelle Wilkins	University of Southampton
377	Carly Maynard
376	Sherrill Stroschein	University College London (UCL)
375	Thomas Docherty	University of Warwick
374	Lucy Robinson	University of Sussex
373	Richard Blakemore	University of read
372	hanna steyne	University of Manchester
371	Richard Duckett	Reading College		Look after your staff! Without them you will not be the great university I graduated from.
370	Gordon Asher	University of the West of Scotland
369	Robert Compton	SUNY Oneonta		This is precisely why so many academics are fleeing the UK and otherwise, like myself, refusing to take a job there.
368	Ben Davies	University of Portsmouth
367	Simone Gigliotti	Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)
366	Graeme Knowles	University of Warwick
365	Steve Jones	Nottingham Trent University (NTU)
364	Y J Erden	St Mary's University, Twickenham
363	Martin Weinel	Cardiff University
362	Nicky Priaulx	Cardiff University
361	Alexander MacKinnon	University of Glasgow
360	Sarah Wilson	University of Stirling
359	Andrew Knops	University of Birmingham
358	Ronald Stewart	University of Liverpool
357	Joanne Cairns	Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU)		Absolutely appalled.
356	Mareike Beck	University of Sussex
355	Matthew Evans	University of Sussex
354	Professor Sally R Munt	Sussex University
353	Alan Campbell	University of Liverpool
352	Stephen Bates	University of Birmingham
351	Paul Booth	University of Keele		This abhorrent policy undermines everything that a university should stand for.
350	Luke Martell	University of Sussex
349	Kyla Ellis-Sloan	University of Brighton
348	Celia Kitzinger	York
347	Jennifer Jenkins	University of Southampton
346	Fanis Missirlis	Cinvestav/Mexico		Hoping that the organization of academics will help reverse the destruction of the University of Essex.
345	Dave Postles	University of Hertfordshire
344	Richard Smith	University of Warwick
343	Tracey Hill	Bath Spa University		Disgraceful
342	Gair Dunlop	DJCAD, University of Dundee
341	Dr Laura Seymour
340	Jamie Melrose	University of Bristol
339	Liz Gloyn	Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)
338	Carol Atack	University of Oxford
337	David Pritchard	University of Strathclyde
336	Liz Morrish	York St John University		This is appallling treatment of academic staff and must be resisted. Essentially, staff are being threatened with capability procedures for failing to reach a standard for which the assessment (flawed in itself) has not yet taken place. This is the very definition of poor management. I'm reporting this to Responsible Metrics.
335	Bethan Benwell	University of Stirling
334	Joe Smith
333	Mike Finn	University of Exeter
332	Christopher Bear	Cardiff University
331	Kirsten Harris	University of Warwick
330	Catherine Crawford	University of Essex
329	Nick Bernards	University of Warwick
328	Andrew Jones	University of Warwick
327	Bill Roberts	University of Warwick
326	Igor Khovanov	University of Warwick
325	Alastair Smith	University of Warwick		The policy of Essex management is a quintessential example of metric based managerialism that will destroy creative, socially valuable, independent academic research in the UK. The evidence that such short termism retards genuine intellectual development and discovery is clear for all to see. Shame on those 'academics' who have promoted and 'allowed' this.
324	Leslie Hill
323	Justine Mercer	University of Warwick		I write as local president of the University of Warwick UCU branch. This is an appalling way to treat staff. REF judgements are inherently subjective and should never be used as the basis for capability proceedings. Senior management need to abandon this strategy immediately. Creating this level of fear is completely counter-productive.
322	Marton Racz	City, University of London
321	Roslyn Scott
320	Kate Kenny
319	Maria Hudson	Essex Business School
318	Kathleen Marsh-Davies	York St John University
317	Tracy Scurry
316	Lynne Baxter	York
315	Andrea Teti	The University of Aberdeen
314	DR BOAST	University of St Andrews
313	Iain Munro	Newcastle University
312	Paul Corthorn	Queen's University of Belfast (QUB)
311	Clotilde Pegorier	University of Essex
310	Ian Wakeman	University of Sussex		There are no management drivers that make this right. It must be fought and stopped.
309	George Parisis	University of Sussex
308	Judith Johnson	University of Essex
307	Michail Veliziotis	University of Southampton
306	Sena Ozdemir	University of Essex		Based on my experience of working at the University of Essex, I think that the University fails to give equal opportunities to all its academic staff members for the development of their research skills and publication profile
305	Roisin Ryan-Flood	University of Essex
304	Loes van Dam	University of Essex
303	Leo McCann	The University of Manchester		Good luck and all solidarity.
302	Darren Calley	School of Law, Essex
301	Olena Kaminska	University of Essex
300	Aiko Ikemura Amaral
299	dimitri ognibene	University of Essex
298	Alex Daye	University of Essex
297	Sareen Galbraith	Leeds Beckett University
296	Christopher Timms	University of Essex
295	Anna Stavrianakis	University of Sussex
294	Paul Clarke	University of Essex
293	Emma Carter	University of Leeds
292	Alan Roe	University of Leeds
291	Richard Smith	Goldsmiths, University of London		Essex Alumnus (MA Comparative History) who is appalled at this attack on workplace rights and staff wellbeing.
290	Lynn Blake	Bridgwater and Taunton College
289	Dave Procter	Leeds Beckett University
288	Kathryn Backhouse	Harrogate
287	Stephen Jordan	University of Essex
286	Marian Mayer	Bournemouth University		As the chair of the Southern Region of UCU on behalf of institions in the region we urge Essex University's Management to adopt the measures called for in this petition. The good reputation of Essex depends on doing so.
285	Karen Nicholls	Sheffield Hallam University
284	Dr Brendon Nicholls	University of Leeds		As an alumnus of the University of Essex, I am disappointed at the lack of vision and the desperate managerialism of this measure. Have you no regard at all for your talented, professional and highly respected academic staff?
283	Sue Abbott	Newcastle University		Completely unacceptable
282	Vicky Blake	University of Leeds		Leeds
281	Ricardo Samaniego	University of Essex
280	Matt Houlbrook	University of Birmingham		Signed as a former University of Essex PhD student, a current external examiner, and Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham.
279	Stephen Dunne	University of Edinburgh		I really hope that the Senior Managers at Essex are OK: they do such great work and everybody loves them.
278	Jamie Pickering	University of Essex - PhD candidate
277	Maryam Aldossari	University of Edinburgh
276	rashne limki			I am interested to know how the administration will redress the egregious harm already caused by their actions, especially in light of the newly released REF guidelines that make all centrally-imposed performance surveillance futile and well out-of-step. Is there to be any accountability?
275	Richard Strange	School of Biological Sciences
274	Tom Cameron	University of Essex		I fully support the UCU on probationary staff - I think it is unwarranted to say that the internal REF is unique to Essex , it has and is happening elsewhere. If you reworded that I could support it.
273	Leon Sealey-Huggins	University of Warwick
272	Chloe Peacock	Goldsmiths, University of London
271	Paloma Carretero García	University of Essex
270	Casper Hoedemaekers	University of Essex
269	Rowland Curtis	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)
268	Carrie Friese	London School of Economics (LSE)
267	G. K. Bhambra	University of Sussex
266	Sam Dallyn	The University of Manchester		As a former PhD student at Essex University I was deeply disheartened to read about this short sighted and punitive approach to the treatment of staff, which js directly contrary to the vibrant and collegial research culture, that Essex has a long standing reputation for in the social sciences and humanities and which is now being put in jeopardy by senior managers.
265	Nelson Fernandez	University of Essex
264	John Holmwood	The University of Nottingham
263	Ella Simpson	Bath Spa University
262	john walshe	PPS
261	Vikki Bell	Goldsmiths, University of London
260	Matthew Fuller	Goldsmiths, University of London		Having been an external examiner at Essex, I am dismayed to see this undermining of academic staff.
259	Marina Vishmidt	Goldsmiths, University of London
258	Jennifer Farmer	Goldsmiths, University of London
257	Phoenix Perry	Goldsmiths, University of London
256	Lynne Pettinger	University of Warwick
255	Francis Spufford	Goldsmiths		The demand that all research outputs be 3* or above is essentially a mathematically illiterate demand that everybody be above average, all the time.
254	Jack Wright	University of Cambridge
253	Ann Kelly	King's College London (KCL)		OXFORD
252	Ben Whitham	De Montfort University (DMU)
251	Stephen Jones	Newman University College
250	Jonathan Perraton	University of Sheffield
249	Pete Fussey
248	Martin Greenwood	University of Manchester
247	Andrew Przybylski	University of Oxford		I was formerly a lecturer at Essex and I am deeply disturbed by the details I've read about this internal REF process.
246	Fiona Hughes	SPAH, University of Essex
245	Stephen Moonie	Newcastle University
244	Yu-chin Tseng	University of Essex
243	Savvas Voutyras	University of Essex
242	Margot Kuylen	University of Essex
241	Natalie Slade	Secondary School		As an Assistant Headteacher, I am appalled at this move. A lack of stability of employment can only be detrimental to the quality of education provided.
240	Liam Jarvis	University of Essex
239	Amy Stevens	University of Essex
238	Lorcan Whitehead	University of Essex
237	Valerie Fraser	University of Essex
236	Alexandra Popescu	University of Essex
235	Steven Gormley	University of Essex
234	Mary Mazzilli	University of Essex
233	Jordan Savage	University of Essex
232	AlejandraD Díaz de León	University of Essex
231	Jeremy Krikler	Department of History, University of Essex		We want to look after each other in a proper community.
230	Michael Halewood	University of Essex
229	Ayse Guveli	Department of Sociology		Colchester
228	Jane Hindley	University of Essex		Colchester
227	Samer Gharib	University of Essex
226	Conor Wilson	Bath Spa University
225	Tatiana Sanchez	University of Essex
224	Sonia Bhalotra	ISER Essex
223	Malcolm Brynin	University of Essex		HEFCE understands that research performance depends on the individual context. It is clear that they expect junior researchers to have 1-2 publications by the next REF. But our university management is so much wiser and expects them to have 2 when we are not even half-way there, and 4 when they are there.Quantity, not quality. And as a result careers and livelihoods are being destroyed.
222	Nadine Rossol	University of Essex
221	Graeme Davies	University of Leeds		Alumni.
220	Chris Green	University of Essex
219	Rachel Rich	Leeds Beckett University
218	Nigel South	University of Essex
217	Lisa Smith	University of Essex
216	Mark Frost	University of Essex
215	Amanda Flather	University of Essex
214	Alix Green	University of Essex
213	seb randall	University of Essex
212	Karen Roehr-Brackin	University of Essex
211	Pamela Knowles	Bath Spa University
210	Raihana Mohammed	University of Essex		Keep our researchers
209	Patrick Turner	Bath Spa University		This is a monstrous move and set of developments on the part of the senior management at Essex. To exploit the REF to bring academics to heel and to potentially remove people from their posts is unconscionable and ill bodes for university based scholarship as a vocation in this country.
208	Daniel Watts	University of Essex
207	Ruth Weir	University of Essex
206	Udo Kruschwitz	University of Essex
205	Paul Buka	Southend Campus
204	Lisa Blackmore
203	Fabian Freyenhagen	University of Essex
202	Ceri Watkins	University of Essex
201	Susan Smith	University of Essex
200	Renginee Pillay	University of Essex
199	Anastasia Caratzas	Athens, Greece		Essex Alumnus
198	Alexandra Neag	University of Essex
197	Gavin Grindon	University of Essex
196	Melissa Tyler	University of Essex
195	Blaithin Spillane			Dublin 9
194	Yasemin Soysal	University of Essex
193	Yuni Kim	University of Essex
192	Nawel Hamidi	University of Essex		Colchester
191	John Haynes	University of Essex
190	Nick Allum	University of Essex
189	Christina Volkmann	University of Essex
188	Javier Andreu Perez	University of Essex
187	Vineeta Chand	University of Essex
186	Jaakko Nevasto	University of Essex
185	Munira Ali	University of Essex
184	Jennifer Randall
183	Ellisif Wasmuth	University of Essex
182	Joshua Kennedy	University of Essex
181	Davide Valeriani
180	Brendan Read	University of Essex
179	Jon Chamberlain	University of Essex
178	Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera	University of Essex
177	Sean Nixon	University of Essex
176	Michael Roper	Department of Sociology, University of Essex
175	Caroline Barratt	University of Essex
174	Samuel Oliver
173	Paul Hunt	University of Essex
172	David Batho	University of Essex
171	Diana Presciutti	University of Essex
170	John-Baptiste Oduor	University of Essex
169	Jakub Kowalewski	University of Essex
168	Caspar Pearson	University of Essex
167	Sally Weatherill	Economist
166	gill green	University of Essex
165	Laila Haidarali	University of Essex
164	Irene McMullin	University of Essex
163	Maria Cristina Fumagalli	University of Essex
162	Ewen Speed	University of Essex
161	Susan Stallabrass	University of Essex
160	Mark Francis-Wright	University of Essex
159	Dorothee Schneider	University of Essex		Colchester
158	Anna Sergi	University of Essex
157	Sherrie Green	Health & Social Care
156	Natasha Ruiz-Gomez	University of Essex
155	Anna Hardiman-McCartney	University of Essex
154	Yanxi Wu	University of Essex		Colchester
153	Penny Simpson	University of Essex
152	Zeta Bakaki	University of Essex, Government Department
151	Anna Alexandrova	University of Cambridge
150	Spyros Samothrakis	University of Essex
149	Gundi Knies	University of Essex
148	Laurel Lawyer	University of Essex
147	Silvia Rigato	University of Essex
146	Elaine Ewart	University of Essex
145	Julia Partheymueller	University of Essex		Colchester
144	Clinton Verdonschot	University of Essex
143	Peter Higgins	University of Essex
142	Maggie Pitfield	Goldsmiths, University of London
141	Tuesday Watts	University of Essex
140	Ella Jeffries	University of Essex
139	Melissa Shales	University of Essex
138	Anna Grant	Goldsmiths, University of London
137	Florence Myles	University of Essex
136	Uri Horesh	University of Essex
135	Jason Glynos	Department of Government, University of Essex
134	Joshua Grocott	The university of essex		Why does the university of essex never appear in anyone's maps? I have the same issue everyone I try to get an NUS discount at Choice.
133	Richard McGuire
132	Robert Johns	Government, Essex
131	Rampaul Chamba
130	Nele Schuldt
129	Eamonn Carrabine	University of Essex
128	Shaul Bar-Haim	University of Essex
127	Miroslav Sirota	Psychology
126	Clément Mouhot	University of Cambridge
125	Marie Guillot	University of Essex
124	Ian Dudley	Univerisy of Essex
123	Stanislava Dikova	University of Essex
122	Katy Wheeler	University of Essex
121	Ida Pu	Goldsmiths, University of London
120	Jake Newell	University College London (UCL)
119	Jonathan King	University of Essex
118	Jessica Houlihan	University of Essex
117	Rosalyn George	Goldsmiths, University of London
116	Sanjay Seth	Goldsmiths, University of London
115	Ben Offiler	Sheffield Hallam University
114	Susan Kelly	Goldsmiths, University of London
113	Neli Demireva	University of Essex		Colchester Campus
112	Thomas Zacharias	Goldsmiths, University of London
111	Kathryn Buchanan	University of Essex
110	Maria-Irina Popescu	University of Essex
109	Marian Carty	Goldsmiths, University of London
108	Mohd A
107	Maria Filippetti	University of Essex
106	Natalie Fenton	Goldsmiths, University of London
105	Katharine Jenkins	The University of Nottingham
104	Simon Carmel	EBS, University of Essex
103	Stephen Murphy	Ebs
102	James Allen-Robertson	University of Essex
101	Jana Kujundzic	University of Essex
100	Carlos Gigoux	Department of Sociology
99	Hedi Viterbo	University of Essex
98	Miriam Glucksmann	University of Essex
97	Ewa Morawska	Sociology Department
96	Jun Li	University of Essex
95	Haslifah Hashim	University of Essex		Colchester
94	Marina Michalski	EBS
93	Timea Tallodi	Colchester Campus School of Law		Colchester
92	Pamela Cox
91	Anna Di Ronco	University of Essex
90	Philip Hancock	University of Essex - EBS
89	Mark Harvey	University of Essex, Sociology
88	Claire Jackson-Prior			Sutton
87	Frances Cornford	British Library		Alarmed at this treatment of academic staff.
86	Tom Flynn	University of Essex
85	Federica Genovese
84	Edward Higgs	Unuversity of Essex		I have already seen on promising academic driven to a mental breakdown by such 'support' and she has now left academia.
83	Mariachiara Barzotto	University of Essex
82	Georgi Grahovski	University of Essex, Department of Mathematical Sciences
81	Alexandra Cox
80	Laura Montanaro	University of Essex
79	Katie Groves	University of Essex
78	Dr Jörg Schaub	University of Essex
77	Anil Yilmaz	University of Essex
76	Marjana Johansson	EBS
75	Andrew Fagan	University of Essex
74	Rael Dawtry	University of Essex
73	Rick O'Gorman	Psychology, University of Essex
72	Stevphen Shukaitis	University of Essex
71	Nicholas Beuret	University of Essex
70	Thoko Kaime	University of Essex
69	Emily Jones	School of Law, University of Essex
68	Andrew Larkin	University of Essex
67	Dounia Bissar	University of Essex
66	Audrey Guinchard	University of Essex		fully support the petition - bear in mind also that capability procedures have been used to manage the side-effects of disability
65	Dilly Meyer	University of Essex
64	Maitrayee Deka	University of Essex
63	Sheri Markose	Economics Dept University of Essex
62	Judith Bueno de Mesquita	School of Law, University of Essex
61	Dominique Knutsen	Department of Psychology, University of Essex
60	Doug Arnold	University of Essex
59	Gerald Williams	University of Essex
58	Amy Cole	University of Essex - TDC
57	Tom Cornford	School of Law
56	Michelle Paul	University of Essex
55	Robin West	Dept. of Sociology, University of Essex
54	Angus Holford	University of Essex
53	Laure Sauvé	University of Essex
52	Laurie Hawkins
51	Jackson Adams	EBS at Essex University		Colchester
50	Peter Gurney	University of Essex
49	Anne Kavanagh	University of Essex
48	Renee Luthra	University of Essex
47	Matt Lodder	University of Essex
46	Emily Dyson	St Marylebone School, London
45	David Stewart	Newcastle University
44	Steffan Kennett	Department of Psychology
43	Marianna Marra
42	Louisa Sadler	University of Essex
41	Edward Mitchell	University of Essex
40	Owen Robinson	University of Essex
39	Danielle Tucker	University of Essex
38	Constantin Mehmel	University of Essex
37	Helge Gillmeister	University of Essex
36	Douglas Giles	University of Essex		It is a shame that universities no longer seem to care about teaching. We are supposed to be educators, yet here we are arguing about how many publications people have and who should be fired for not having enough. What about people who can teach?
35	Nicholas Cooper	University of Essex
34	Martin Reed	University of Essex
33	Mario Burghausen	University of Essex/Essex Business School/Colchester
32	Elia Valentini	University of Essex		Colchester
31	Kate Seymour	University of Essex
30	Jan Jakob Bornheim	University of Essex
29	Caterina Cinel	Essex
28	Caroline Carney
27	Pasi Ahonen	University of Essex
26	Karen Brennan	University of Essex
25	Mohammed Khair Alshaleel	University of Essex		Colchester
24	Kholoud Mohsen	University of Essex
23	Claire Delle Luche	University of Essex		COLCHESTER
22	Eirini Konstantinidou	University of Essex
21	Christian De Cock	University of Essex - Essex Business School		I would like to add that in my former capacity as Head of Group (MMO at EBS) I pointed out that the University is clearly failing in its Duty of Care towards employees in its implementation of these policies. The only response I got back from my line manager is that I should not put such matters in an email (or any written communication)
20	Rosie Worsdale	University of Essex
19	Monika Schmid	University of Essex
18	Nicolas Geeraert	University of Essex, Psychology
17	Devon Wybrow	University of Essex
16	Lorna Finlayson	University of Essex
15	Richard Cornes	University of Essex
14	Clara Sandoval	University of Essex		Colchester
13	Isabel Crowhurst	University of Essex
12	Mohammed Shamsul Karim	University of Essex, Essex Business School / Southend
11	Sophia Skoufaki	University of Essex
10	Helen Rand	University of Essex
9	Matthew Stone	University of Essex
8	Daragh Murray	University of Essex		This petition should also ideally reference the Stern report, and the requirement that not all staff submit 4 pieces. I would also like to counter the idea that staff who do submit four will someone resent if others submit less, because of different circumstances (which include professional workload). I absolutely reject that assertion, which I believe undermines a collegiate atmosphere.
7	Stephen Sangwine	University of Essex
6	Peter Patrick	University of Essex, Language and Linguistics
5	Darren Thiel	dept sociology, essex
4	Colin Samson	University of Essex
3	Chris Fox	University of Essex
2	Michael Bailey	University of Essex
1	Linsey McGoey	University of Essex

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Documents relevant to probation

• Ordinance 34 reads as follows:
  “DEFINITION OF ACADEMIC STAFF
  ‘Academic Staff’ means all persons holding appointments as Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers, Senior Research Fellows, Lecturers, Research Fellows, Senior Research Officers or Research Officers of the University…”
• We note that probationers have letters of appointment.
• Recent procedures and guidance relevant to probation are available here.
• One document dated March 2017 is titled “Guidance for Probationary Academic Staff”.
• The first point after the VC’s own intro message reads: “As a new member of our academic staff you are required to serve a period of probation”
• Point 1.1 of the document “Probation – Academic and Research Staff Notes for Guidance for Heads of Departments and Probationary Supervisors”, dated Oct 2013 updated Mar 2017, reads:
• “The standard period of probation for Academic and Research staff appointed to a permanent contract at, or below, Grade 9 is three years”
• We note that all of these recent documents state, assume or imply that probationers are members of “academic staff”. The declaration by management that they are not appears to be at odds with the University’s own policies and procedures.
  
• The Nolan Principles may be found here.