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Speech & Language Therapist trained in 🇮🇳/Academic/Creating co-learning spaces for #antiracism in SLT at University of Essex/Views are mine
Being part of this protest meant a lot to me. I felt the power of our collective, every single person out there was standing up for justice. #ProtectEducation #SaveJobs
UCU Essex@ucuessex.bsky.social · 5mo ago📣 PROTEST AT UNIVERSITY COUNCIL MEETING 📣 🚨 Monday, 9am, outside the Albert Sloman Library 🚨
Compulsory redundancies, 400 job losses, a campus closed. The justification has always been: we have 2612 staff. This is the number the VC has used repeatedly to justify this unprecedented attack on our jobs. But the latest financial figures from the uni say that we actually only have 2273...?
This is why we're on strike. Not to piss management off. Not to make students suffer. But to prove that we're *not* redundant - no matter what Frances says. If we take even a few days off, vital work doesn't get done. A university is nothing without its staff.
Today, we're shining a spotlight on Language & Linguistics - one of the founding departments of the University of Essex, and a very strong department on the national scale, and - as part of a cynical and short-sighted cost-cutting exercise - a department slated for 50% cuts by VC Frances Bowen.
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@ninamarkl.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨Save Languages at the University of Essex 🚨 #langsky #linguistics UoE plans to cut German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese + all evening classes and merge Language and Linguistics with a larger unit. Only 2 languages will remain next October. Please sign our letter: tinyurl.com/SaveLingLang...
Today, in a branch meeting with unprecedented attendance, Essex UCU overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in our VC Frances Bowen and her senior management team for their appalling handling of the current financial shambles.
The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business. She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.
Read our letter to Julie here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Sign our petition to help avert this crisis - stop the cuts, save Southend, protect education: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa... Thanks! 💚
Letter to Samaritans workers and community
We are writing to you as members of the University of Essex facing an unprecedented restructuring process involving proposed 400 redundancies and the closure of our Southend campus. A member of our Un...
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Julie will know that job insecurity increases risk of suicide: in fact, 1 in 5 suicides is linked to unemployment. We'd like to ask her whether the alternatives to compulsory redundancies were fully explored on Council. Was she given the opportunity to read UCU's fully costed alternative proposals?
UCU Essex supports the crucial work @samaritans.bsky.social do. Our students and staff include a number of proud Samaritans volunteers 💚 Julie Bentley, CEO of Samaritans, sits on our University Council - which has just approved 400+ redundancies. We went to raise awareness at Sams HQ today.
Comrade Frances joined us on the pickets today! Well, she passed by while jogging. But she took a moment to blame us for not telling members just how seriously management are taking our proposals. Apparently we should be working together 🙏 This is the most we've seen of her since Christmas btw 🥰
We have written a further letter to the Vice Chancellor at the University of Essex further to meetings held over the last week and additional questions and concerns that have been raised!
What a way to say “thank you for all the work you did getting this trying term to a good end”: risk of redundancy letters to go into the Christmas break. Wishing triplet ghost visits upon Essex management. And sending much solidarity to all @ucuessex.bsky.social
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 8mo agoOngoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Pam Cox MP, former member of staff at the University of Essex, speaks out against redundancies and course closures 👏 www.facebook.com/reel/2288732...
3.3K views · 88 reactions | Today I raised the issue of university redundancies and course closures in the House of Commons and have requested a meeting with Ministers to discuss the situation at the ...
Today I raised the issue of university redundancies and course closures in the House of Commons and have requested a meeting with Ministers to discuss the situation at the University of Essex in more....
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Sam McLean @sammcleanntcc.bsky.social on Essex Pathways, the University's experts on foundation year provision. "[O]nce that department is gone, it's gone. It would take decades to rebuild the hundreds of years of combined experience that run it."
The University of Essex has announced it is looking to cut staff and close one of its campuses as it looks to create a more “sustainable” future. Juliette Rowsell reports https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/essex-close-southend-campus-and-cut-400-jobs
Essex to close Southend campus and cut 400 jobs
University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers
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Bilingualism London CEN@bilingualismloncen.bsky.social · 10mo ago**Save The Date** We’re super excited to share that Nisha Veerd will be presenting her amazing work at our next #Bilingualism CEN CPD event (on Zoom)! More details will be shared but in the meantime, please save the date and time: Date: 19th November 2025 Time: 12pm-1pm Join us! 😀
If you’re a #student or #SLT2B interested in sharing your #research on #bilingualism with a friendly group of members from our Bilingualism Clinical Excellence Network, please get in touch - bilingualismlondoncen@gmail.com All our CPD events are online and they’re usually at lunch time (12-1pm).
The Kannada version of the CGC is available here: osf.io/yt24q Congratulations to Chirag for his excellent MSc project at Uni of Essex.
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British Aphasiology Society@basaphasia.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe City Gesture Checklist addresses this gap figshare.com/s/04a60389e5...
The City Gesture Checklist has been adapted and translated into Kannada by Chirag Girish Kiran in collaboration with his supervisors; this was a complex process with lots of considerations e.g., cultural differences, differences in dialect, vocabulary choice #BASconf25
me and @snelljulia.bsky.social are doing a joint keynote at this UKLA/NEU conference, talking about futures of linguistic justice and designing linguistically just schools 💜 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literacy-i...
Literacy in Primary Classrooms Conference
Join the NEU and UKLA for our Literacy in Primary Classrooms Conference!
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the London Association for the Teaching of English conference is on Saturday 5 July and is all about oracy. i am giving keynote on oracy, deficit thinking, and linguistic in/justice 🌸 londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...
It’s had over 2,500 downloads in its first year! We’re so proud If you’d like to learn more or you’d like to start a peer support group, you can find all the information at: salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/our-projects... @katiecebula.bsky.social @suereviews.bsky.social @sarahefoley.bsky.social
NEST (NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit)
NEST (NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit) is a suite of materials to facilitate peer support for neurodivergent young people in mainstream secondary schools. The toolkit has been co-created by resear...
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It’s the Neurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST)’s first birthday!! A year ago, we launched this free, co-designed, research informed tool to support mainstream secondary schools to establish peer support groups for neurodivergent young people.
these teachers were 🔥. all working to resist linguistic injustice in spite of dominant deficit discourses about language, individualistic theories of social change, oppressive policy pressures, and inadequate school management 💕
Ian Cushing@iancushing.bsky.social · last yr.20 teachers are at MMU for 2 days of a summer school on linguistic justice and they are amazing 💕
Zoom code now available for our free CLTT Summer Lecture 2025. We look forward to welcoming Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson on 11.06.25 (4pm BST). The informative lecture is Neurodiversity, Communication and Inclusive Education. essex-university.zoom.us/j/94311867295 Meeting ID: 943 1186 7295
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i am giving a keynote at the London Association for the Teaching of English conference on the 5 July: Oracy, deficit thinking and linguistic in/justice 🌸 londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...
Forthcoming Conferences
Winter 2024 LATE Conference: ‘What Space for English?’ on 7th December
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It's #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek! But what is neurodiversity? We wrote an article for young people explaining what neurodiversity means for different people and day to day life! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Neurodiversity Can Explain Differences in How People Experience Everyday Life
Neurodiversity means that all people’s brains process information differently from each other. In other words, people think and learn in a variety of ways. Being neurodivergent means that the way a pe...
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Audiobook freaks! The audio version of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism is out now! www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0DW13845...
Empire of Normality
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 'Groundbreaking . . . [provides] a deep history of the invention of the "normal" mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To rea...
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