Goldsmiths UCU
@goldsmithsucu.bsky.social
Trade union for academic/related staff at Goldsmiths, University of London https://goldsmithsucu.org/
Join us on the pickets each day, Monday to Friday, from 8.30am to 1.30pm outside RHB. Check your emails for more details on upcoming events and alternative induction days, and do get in touch if you would like to help organise further events over the coming weeks!
Our statement on the death of Professor Jason Arday: goldsmithsucu.org/2026/08/17/o...
Our statement on the death of Professor Jason Arday - Goldsmiths University and College Union
We are devastated and angered by the loss of Professor Jason Arday. Our hearts go out to his loved ones, family, and community. We stand in grief and rage with ...
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Goldsmiths' executive board have announced they're on holiday until September. No more ACAS until then. They surely need a rest after their summer demolition job, and time to prep for another act of vandalism this autumn. They're calling it Future Goldsmiths 'Stage 2'.
With sadness and rage, we encourage all our members to attend the vigil organised for Dr Jason Arday today (17th August), Trafalgar Square, 6pm.
University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · last mo.We would encourage all UCU members in London to attend the vigil for Jason Arday which will take place on Monday in Trafalgar Square at 6pm. Bring your love and solidarity.
1/ More than 100 colleagues from across every School at Goldsmiths have signed an open letter to incoming Vice-Chancellor Joanna Newman. Read the full letter and sign: 🔗 lnkd.in/ena6UHEM
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Parents of Goldsmiths students are warning senior management that without a resolution to the dispute, what's at stake isn't just their kids' degrees, but "the future of Goldsmiths itself." Thank you @timeshighered.bsky.social for covering this. 🔗 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/parents...
Parents urge end to Goldsmiths dispute as strikes enter 10th week
With industrial action threatening graduations, parents of affected students urge parties to reach agreement
timeshighereducation.com
Readings by Lola Olufemi and Christine Kirubi, music and visuals by Dubmorphology, and dj sets by Chooc Ly and Raheel Khan! Grab your advance tix: shorturl.at/pfQjs
Goldsmiths UCU Strike Fundraiser · Luma
Come and party with Goldsmiths UCU members and supporters on July 22nd at Pelican House, in Bethnal Green from 6:00pm to 10:00pm. There will be food, drink,…
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1/ Who's running Goldsmiths? Part two. Aaron Porter, deputy chair of Council since 2018. 🧵
1/ Who's running Goldsmiths? Meet the people at the top of Council, the body signing off on mass redundancies. Careerists collecting board seats like they're Pokémon. For them, Goldsmiths is just another line on the CV. 🧵
Goldsmiths is seeking to implement a third round of mass job cuts in the last five years. Workers from @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social stood up and took action to defend jobs, so what did management do?
'Academics fear they are being “set up to fail” after several institutions finished the academic year by announcing fresh job cuts, casting doubt over who will return after the summer break, and what courses they will be teaching.' 1/3
Summer of ‘chaos’ predicted as mass job cuts close academic year
‘Impossible to plan’ for research and teaching, say staff, as threat of redundancy looms large over summer breaks
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📌 SAVE THE DATE: GUCU strike fundraiser! 📌 Wednesday 22 July, 6 till 10pm, Pelican House E1. Music! Speakers! A raffle! Friends! Everything you could possibly need to get through (another) long hot summer of fighting the good fight. Full line-up coming soon 😉 Divided we beg, united we fight!
🚀 The GUCU Art Raffle is live! 🚀 Win art! Support striking staff resisting savage redundancies and the ongoing destruction of Goldsmiths. Tickets £5. Art by Jeremy Deller, Eddie Peake, Florece Peake, Taring Padi + many many more. Closes 25 July (draw on 26). www.gucu-raffle.com
Tomorrow, 12pm. Come to our strike rally at Goldsmiths University, New Cross — with Lewisham Mayor @liamshrivastava.bsky.social , @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social , and more. #NoRedundanciesEverAgain
🍉Goldsmiths staff and students stand with Ray and the Filton4. Join our online letter-writing session today, Friday 26 June, 3–5pm, and show them your love and solidarity. Link in email.
Due to the high temperatures today, there will be no picket activities this Friday 26. We’ll be back on Monday 29. Please take care in this heat, and see you then! ☀️ #NoRedundanciesEverAgain
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Solidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues as we move into the fourth week of a two month strike, and with colleagues at @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social, @sheffielducu.bsky.social, @uculsbu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @ucu-londonmet.bsky.social also fighting for their jobs and students.
Jon McGregor@jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 4mo agoSolidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues starting the first day of a 61 day strike today, including the 2700 of us at formal risk of redundancy and especially colleagues in Languages, Music, and Mental Health Nursing whose departments/courses are being closed down altogether.
🌡️ Due to forecast high temperatures, GUCU picket activities are paused from 23–25 June. Please stay safe and keep cool. We expect to be back on the picket line on 26 June. Solidarity ✊
GUCU voted unanimously in solidarity with Ray and students who faced police brutality after the Filton 4 sentencing. We will cover Ray's statutory charge and demand college stands against the use of anti-terror laws to criminalise legitimate protest, and guarantees Ray's place at Goldsmiths.
Emergency motion in Support of Ray and Students - Goldsmiths University and College Union
This emergency motion was passed at the branch meeting on June 19th 2026. This Branch notes that: This Branch believes that: This Branch resolves to:
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Astonishing comments from @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social VC who praises staff “research expertise” & widening participation achievements without mentioning the £22m of cuts that will devastate research culture, access & jobs www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/if-uks...
If the UK’s universities wither, so will its creative industries
By neglecting to adequately fund university teaching, the UK government is undermining its own growth ambitions for the creative sector, say Goldsmiths’ interim vice-chancellor David Oswell and, separ...
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Please read this piece by our member Feyzi Ismail in @ajenglish.bsky.social on the years-long crisis at Goldsmiths and what it tells us about the state of higher education in this country. #NoRedundanciesEverAgain www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The slow death of Goldsmiths is a warning to British universities
The crisis at the London university shows how marketisation has pushed UK higher education to the brink.
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GUCU members: do not cross the picket line for the degree shows today. Join our Art and Visual Cutlures members and students at 5PM for an alternative to the private view instead! The workers who supported these students through their degrees deserve better than business as usual.
ERRATA CORRIGE!!! Ravelling: Practices of Hope Visual Cultures degree show on the picket line — gazebo opening is taking place on THURSDAY, 5-7 @ RHB!!!!
Is a £500m data centre risking the future of Brick Lane? Plus: a council backtrack, a very Goldsmiths civil war and a look inside the new Piccadilly trains Read our Monday Briefing: www.the-londoner.co.uk/data-centre-...
Data centre doom comes to Brick Lane
Plus: a council backtrack, a very Goldsmiths civil war and inside the new Piccadilly trains
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Our action is making the news! A round-up of today's coverage 👓🗞️:
