Tag: pgr
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Uniting Against Academic Casualisation: A Call for Solidarity and Action
In academia, where knowledge production is often celebrated while the labour that creates it is invisibilised, there exists a reality that often goes unnoticed—the precarity of post-graduate researchers (PGRs). As voices behind groundbreaking research and the backbone of undergraduate education, PGRs play a vital role in the academic ecosystem. Yet, they often find themselves navigating…
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Post-Graduate Researchers Demand Certainty and Support from University of Sussex
Doctoral researchers have felt the brunt of the University of Sussex’s cost cutting agenda. As students and precariously employed teaching staff, their requests for support through the pandemic have received slow and reluctant attention. Doctoral researchers are some of the hardest working and most valuable members of the university community. Ahead of the UK lockdown…
Sussex UCU, Brighton, UK 