An introduction. Former UK academic in linguistics. Resigned in 2016 in order to write outside of #auditculture or management surveillance. Interested in #highered #criticaluniversitystudies #uspolitics Blogs at academicirregularities.wordpress.com
Author of Pressure Vessels: The epidemic of poor mental health among higher education staff. https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2019/05/23/pressure-vessels-the-epidemic-of-poor-mental-health-among-higher-education-staff/
Pressure Vessels: The epidemic of poor mental health among higher education staff - HEPI

Across the higher education sector, we see increasing numbers of staff being referred to counselling and occupational health services. This report attributes the deterioration to factors such as excessive workloads, insecure employment and punitive metrics-driven performance management policies and argues that universities need to become healthier environments in order for academics to perform their duties […]

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