Unpacking the “business model” behind the plans to restructure the University of Edinburgh

We should be clear: when we write that they are “manufacturing a crisis”, our emphasis is just as much on the crisis as the manufacturing.

During a local UCU workload campaign amid ongoing budget cuts and threats of compulsory redundancies, we ask: where does casualisation sit in this? How can we understand workload through job insecurity?

University management is courting a death spiral, where cuts in the name of sustainability actually undermine that which they are meant to save.

Here is the truth about trans people and our broader LGBTQI+ communities: we don’t disappear just because you erase any mention of us, that’s not how reality works.

Raise workplace issues and point out where things are not right, not fair, not equitable, not okay. But do it the right way: don't break out pitchforks and torches.

Management Is Manufacturing a ‘Financial Crisis’ to Impose Staff Cuts

UoE management’s non-response to suppression of Palestine solidarity expression and action

Rally at Scottish Parliament, Wednesday 29 January 2025. More info here.

In late 2019, Management told the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science PhD researchers that their shared office and social space was to be converted into staff offices. Read to find out how they organized to fight back!

A number of management’s claims on UoE finances appear to overstate costs and understate the contribution that staff make…

In this blog, we describe why we believe management’s approach to the budget is wrong.

Unions, organisations, networks and individual staff and students write to condemn our institution’s senior managers for their suppression of Palestine-related expression at the University of Edinburgh.

You’re invited! Staff-Student Solidarity Network Joint Union Social

Are things really as bad as they say? Find out the truth behind the numbers!

Attention UCU members at the University of Edinburgh! Sign up for ‘Know Your Rights’ training for tutors and demonstrators.

Members across the University joined the UCU call for a Workplace Day of Action to demand a ceasefire in the escalating conflict in the Palestinian territories and now in Lebanon…

Dear Court members,

We write as a wide coalition of concerned staff and students about a matter of urgent concern to our University community…