HUMANITIES UNDER THREAT AT UOB

HUMANITIES UNDER THREAT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

The University of Brighton, UK, has announced plans to make some 110 academic staff and 30 professional service staff redundant. Over 400 academic staff have been declared at risk of redundancy. Although every school in the University is affected, the School of Humanities and Social Science has been hit particularly hard. The school's interdisciplinary Humanities Subject Area has been hit harder still: every member of its teaching team has been placed in the pool of potential redundancies. Such cuts would radically undermine the concentrated provision of philosophy, cultural studies, literature and history at the University, depriving it of elements of teaching and scholarly research that are centrally important in the very definition of a university.

Click to sign the Open Letter

Please also consider expressing your views by writing directly to:

Professor Debra Humphris, Vice Chancellor: d.humphris@brighton.ac.uk
Members of the Board of Governors: Secretary to the Board: a.v.wilson@brighton.ac.uk
Dean of School of Humanities and Social Science: S.C.Maddison@brighton.ac.uk

Please forward your email/letter to humanitiesuob@gmail.com, to share on this website.

Resources for composing letters of concern and complaint, and further information about the closures and humanities teaching at Brighton, can be found here.

You can read the letters to the VC (and others) here.

See UCU Brighton's wider campaign: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ucu/