An Associate Lecturer, an Anthropologist - and a mum (AN Pilgrim) 😊. She/her. (Views my own.)
Cardiff, Wales
Joined October 2017
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Thread collecting accounts of experience having to move #HigherEducation into #OnlineEducation in crisis situations.
#OnlineTeachingTips.
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👩💻👨💻 – at Cardiff, Wales
@Coomerene I was thinking of you today 💗.
Wish I could have been at your graduation 👩🎓. (So proud of you.)
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It's @KateFox41 and me processing at graduation #OUFAMILY.
This is the first time we've met in person after many years supporting each other on Twitter as @oubucu members 💗.
Whatever your view on how we need to move forward, you need to vote.
Mae angen i chi bleidleisio.
Collective action got us back our pensions. Through voting we demonstrate we stand together in a democratic union.
#UnitedWeStand #GTVO #ucuRISING ✊🗳. – at Cardiff, Wales
Many of us dread going into work because of unreasonable workloads, stress and lack of workplace support - some of us are even striking because of this. How about @Jeremy_Hunt creating legislation that makes employers properly support overworked staff?
#ucuRISING #EnoughIsEnough. – at Cardiff, Wales
Jeremy Hunt says he wants those who feel unable to work because of physical or mental health conditions to receive medical and therapeutic help as a condition of receiving their out-of-work benefits uplift, as a pathway back to work. But this seems less than practical - even heroic - at a time when NHS waiting lists and times are at record levels, and goodness knows how or when they will fall to normal levels
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ANLecturer retweeted
"If convicted, the defendant will be the first officer to be imprisoned for murder committed on duty in over 30 years - perhaps ever."
A must-read by the brill @sofiaakel
On the significance of the murder charges in the #ChrisKaba case: thelead.uk/charges-over-chri…
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A huge thank you to the students on BBC News who are rightly laying the blame for today's strikes with university vice-chancellors.
#ucuRISING
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Solidarity with @usw_ucu members striking today. I urge the University to meet with the Union and find a resolution.
Cefnogi aelodau UCU yn Nhrefforest y bore yma.
The @UniSouthWales is an outlier in choosing to punish staff with 50% deductions for the whole period of the MAB.
This is equivalent of more than 2.5 months wages being stolen, pushing hard working staff into financial hardship.
It doesn't have to be this way. #USWFamily
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Today's excellent speakers had so many great lessons for success. Lots to think on!
Members: don't forget discussion meeting Tues 26 Sept (12:30)
Zoom link in email!
REMINDER: intro to negotiating with @Lydunion today 3pm
#ucuRISING
Support this morning from, among others, @susanamynewman @LeafyHistory @CardiffUCU @usw_ucu @UCUCymru @cardiff_people ❤✊❤. – at Cardiff, Wales
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I began picketing on my own @oubucu in Cardiff a few years ago. @llantwit used to cycle by to show solidarity ✊❤.
We worked through the pandemic but management failed to recognise our efforts and support us. More and more have joined us.
#ucuRISING #UnitedWeStand ✊❤✊
Pre-Halloween @oubucu Cardiff picket.
RIP Quality Education for OUr students 💔.
RIP Dignity at work 😥.
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#ucuRISING #UnitedWeStand.
ANLecturer retweeted
Solidarity from @CardiffUCU members who joined our colleagues at @usw_ucu & @oubucu on their picket lines this morning.✊
Uni staff want to be welcoming our new & existing students this week, but because of our employers’ greed many are out in the cold yet again.🥶
#ucuRISING
ALT UCU members from Cardiff University join the Open University in Wales picket line in Cardiff holding a hand-painted purple banner which reads: “Solidarity Forever!” In purple and blue lettering.
ALT UCU members from Cardiff University join the University of South Wales picket line at the Atrium building in Cardiff holding a purple banner which reads: “Solidarity Forever!” In purple and blue lettering.
ANLecturer retweeted
Fantastic pickets at Trefforest, Cardiff Atrium, and Newport pickets today! Fighting for fair pay and conditions.
SMT at @UniSouthWales need to start talking to instead of punishing their staff.
#USWFamily
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Picket party! Multiple @UCUWales unions on the picket line! - Here we are (@oubucu) with the University of South Wales @john08james @ANLecturer @ucu
#ucuRISING #VoteYes
ALT A group of UCU union members in front of a ucu banner at the USW Atrium
Solidarity (and cakes) from @CardiffUCU.
We went on to join @usw_ucu just down the road. Their employers are threatening 50% deductions over the whole summer 🤬. They're out in 3 locations 8-10 am all week if you can go and show solidarity.
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#ucuRISING. – at Hammersmith, London
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We wonder what our Chancellor Rowan Williams thinks about the punitive and intransigent stance of the current SMT at @UniSouthWales towards its staff?
We note that when his chancellorship was announced he said that USW was a "major force for positive change in Wales"
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Fresh academic year - same old dispute @UniSouthWales Unsustainable workloads, unfair pay - now with added savage pay cuts for the marking boycott! We’re picketing all 3 campuses this week #ucu #solidarity
OUr @oubucu members have come from West Wales and Bristol to @ucu picket today. These members can't be here:
Marion E, Richard Bradbury and Emma - whose job is so precarious she daren't strike! 💔✊
#ucuRISING – at Cardiff, Wales
ALT Woman in pink vest holding poster with names on, in front of Open University in Wales sign.