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A 3hr lecture planned this morning with around 150 Cardiff University Nursing 2nd yrs. They were upset, angry, bewildered…but kind, concerned & caring towards lecturing staff. These lovely, lovely students even bought me some chocolates & a cake. They do not deserve this!

Myself & my fellow CAER Heritage co-director received notice that our roles are under threat. This represents an existential threat to our multi-award winning flagship #civicmission project & a community partnership built with our wonderful partners ACE over 15 years.

Dark skies over Cardiff University today 😞 Proud to be a researcher at this school and a part of the PGR community of Geography & Planning 💪 #theydeservebetter

More Cardiff UCU✊🌱 on the @CardiffUni cuts. “The University has access to hundreds of millions of reserves, of which a really big chunk is accessible. “We are bemused why they’re pushing ahead with brutal and callous cuts when other options are on the table.” 30th January 2025.

Speaking only as a former senior lecturer & a current member of UCU, Wendy Larner has behaved appallingly as VC of Cardiff University. She’s shown utter disregard for her staff & students. This isn’t leadership, it’s autocracy. I really hope that other VCs will learn from her mistakes.

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"The ‘Newcastle model’ is an existential threat to UK humanities" - my contribution with Prof Martin A Mills Les Back to Times Higher Education timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-redu… Jennifer Richards Dr Liz Morrish Newcastle University Geography Newcastle University Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social

Heartbreaking (and heartwarming) coverage of the fightback against plans to axe the School of Music by @Cardiffuni bosses. Produced by student journalist (and CU Music allumnus) James Bessant Davies #CUFightback youtu.be/KWS0fwn267c

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University As workers prepare for a strike ballot, an anonymous academic recounts recent events at Cardiff University. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in-t…

I really encourage everyone to read this about what staff are going through at Cardiff - utterly maddening and totally disgraceful

Cardiff University bosses tried to shut down the Music School, and instead, they got an orchestra of rebellion making national news. Just beautiful. thetimes.com/article/6ca586…

“Instead of passing these proposals on the nod, Council should do its job and recommend a more reasonable period of reform, reducing risks to the University’s reputation, academic sustainability, staff wellbeing, & student satisfaction.” By Martin Shipton nation.cymru/news/macho-app…

Huge news. Yesterday, @CardiffUni Senate, the academic standards body, voted to not recommend management’s toxic “Academic Futures” cuts plan to Cardiff University Council. There wasn’t ONE vote in favour… The ball is now in UniversityCouncil’s court at its meeting next Tuesday

In this recent interview for a student documentary, I talk about the national scandal of food insecurity and how local orgs could help. Please read, share and follow my Substack 👇 drdavebeck.substack.com/p/tackling-foo…

Excellent blog again from CUFightBack: “When Patrick Younge, Chair of Council, asked the Vice Chancellor what she thought was the most overrated virtue, her answer was striking: “Prudence.” Knowing what we now know, this feels like a missed warning.” cufightback.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/pru…

Mass redundancies won’t just ruin lives, they will wreck UK universities’ global reputation. As Nick Megoran of Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social writes, cuts aren’t just short-sighted, they’re self-destructive. ✊ Join UCU and Fight back. #ucu #STOPtheCUTS timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mass-r…

While the world is distracted with the war with Iran, the genocide in Gaza continues. "Israeli forces shoot dozens as Gaza aid site killings multiply" aje.io/3s0pv2 via Al Jazeera English

Strange sharing this given everything going on right now but the research was several years in the making and I hope it is helpful to welfare historians "Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World" Antipode onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… The Office for Students (OfS) Students: "What do you mean you don't have any lecturers anyone?"

A brilliant take down of the reckless tech-bro optimism of Cardiff University management plans. "A flagship national university cannot be run like a tech startup." Indeed, *no* university should be run like that! iwa.wales/agenda/2025/06…