Martin E Purcell
@martinepurcell.bsky.social
Lecturer in Community Education. Exponent of radical love. Would-be comic, poet and singer. Flawed husband and dad. Lost cause?
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University management teams when consultancy firms give them the same advice they've given everyone else:
March 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
University management teams when consultancy firms give them the same advice they've given everyone else:
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In this exchange last week, the interim Principal at Dundee University can’t recall if anyone on UEG or Court thought that the idea of a £200k Transformation Director was a bad idea.
Douglas Ross MSP
“You’re saying that we got rid of the incompetent ones, and the ones that are left are fine.”
Douglas Ross MSP
“You’re saying that we got rid of the incompetent ones, and the ones that are left are fine.”
March 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
In this exchange last week, the interim Principal at Dundee University can’t recall if anyone on UEG or Court thought that the idea of a £200k Transformation Director was a bad idea.
Douglas Ross MSP
“You’re saying that we got rid of the incompetent ones, and the ones that are left are fine.”
Douglas Ross MSP
“You’re saying that we got rid of the incompetent ones, and the ones that are left are fine.”
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Was just looking for a copy of Diane Watt and Adele Jones' book on #Abasindi, it's just been reprinted. This is a very timely piece of writing about #Black #Female #activism in Manchester, based on Diane's doctoral thesis. Great reading
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
Manchester’s radical Black female activists: ‘We didn’t define ourselves as feminists’
Founded in 1980, Abasindi Co-operative fought systemic racial and gender inequalities. Nearly 50 years later, the group’s legacy is everywhere
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Was just looking for a copy of Diane Watt and Adele Jones' book on #Abasindi, it's just been reprinted. This is a very timely piece of writing about #Black #Female #activism in Manchester, based on Diane's doctoral thesis. Great reading
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
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They're hanging up the hi-vis , but they've achieved their mission: no new oil and gas licenses is UK Govt policy .
So , top work Just Stop Oil– some may disagree with the method but they can't fault your motive .
The fight for a liveable planet continues .
So , top work Just Stop Oil– some may disagree with the method but they can't fault your motive .
The fight for a liveable planet continues .
March 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
They're hanging up the hi-vis , but they've achieved their mission: no new oil and gas licenses is UK Govt policy .
So , top work Just Stop Oil– some may disagree with the method but they can't fault your motive .
The fight for a liveable planet continues .
So , top work Just Stop Oil– some may disagree with the method but they can't fault your motive .
The fight for a liveable planet continues .
Common sense stopgap measures to halt the meltdown in higher education? Or fiddling while Rome burns?
tacity.co.uk/2025/03/26/t...
tacity.co.uk/2025/03/26/t...
Three Immediate, Cost-Free Interventions to Avert Collapse in UK Higher Education
UK higher education (HE) is undergoing a profound and deeply unsettling crisis. Universities across the country including Newcastle, Cardiff, UEA, Dundee and many others (seemingly by the day) are …
tacity.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Common sense stopgap measures to halt the meltdown in higher education? Or fiddling while Rome burns?
tacity.co.uk/2025/03/26/t...
tacity.co.uk/2025/03/26/t...
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[email protected] @georgiaes.bsky.social and I are today going public on our latest legal case - this is a dirty secret that businesses and regulators are in on.
All our legal work with @fightingdirty.bsky.social is crowdfunded. Please do donate. stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com
All our legal work with @fightingdirty.bsky.social is crowdfunded. Please do donate. stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
[email protected] @georgiaes.bsky.social and I are today going public on our latest legal case - this is a dirty secret that businesses and regulators are in on.
All our legal work with @fightingdirty.bsky.social is crowdfunded. Please do donate. stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com
All our legal work with @fightingdirty.bsky.social is crowdfunded. Please do donate. stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com
Another story demonstrating tge human impact if these savage cuts.
The #WeAreThe632 campaign shares the stories from staff who are already being affected by the proposed job cuts.
Murray Simpson @murraysimpson.bsky.social has worked and studied at the University of Dundee for almost 40 years!
You can listen to more stories from staff here youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
Murray Simpson @murraysimpson.bsky.social has worked and studied at the University of Dundee for almost 40 years!
You can listen to more stories from staff here youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
March 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Another story demonstrating tge human impact if these savage cuts.
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Our students know the score, and who is responsible for the financial position at the University.
Executives, and Court members who continue to ignore attempts to engage with them, need to resign.
Executives, and Court members who continue to ignore attempts to engage with them, need to resign.
Yesterday one of our students was interviewed Radio Scotland about the student view of the situation at Dundee. Ahead of the interview, he canvassed his classmates for their opinions, so he was not just giving his own individual view.
Here's part 1.
Here's part 1.
March 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Our students know the score, and who is responsible for the financial position at the University.
Executives, and Court members who continue to ignore attempts to engage with them, need to resign.
Executives, and Court members who continue to ignore attempts to engage with them, need to resign.
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Our wonderful colleague Usha explains how the current financial crisis and proposed 632 FTE job cuts is affecting her right now. Many colleagues feel the same way.
The "recovery plan" needs to be scrapped. It's had a devastating effect on staff and students.
#WeAreThe632
#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
The "recovery plan" needs to be scrapped. It's had a devastating effect on staff and students.
#WeAreThe632
#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
March 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our wonderful colleague Usha explains how the current financial crisis and proposed 632 FTE job cuts is affecting her right now. Many colleagues feel the same way.
The "recovery plan" needs to be scrapped. It's had a devastating effect on staff and students.
#WeAreThe632
#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
The "recovery plan" needs to be scrapped. It's had a devastating effect on staff and students.
#WeAreThe632
#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
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This is one of the most gruesome raptor persecution cases I have ever heard– yet incidents like this take place up and down the country every single year .
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
March 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is one of the most gruesome raptor persecution cases I have ever heard– yet incidents like this take place up and down the country every single year .
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
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VIDEO: Chants of ‘shame on you’ as Dundee University staff and students hold campus protest
VIDEO: Chants of ‘shame on you’ as Dundee University staff and students hold campus protest
University students and staff gathered on the Campus Green to express their anger at job losses.
dlvr.it
March 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
VIDEO: Chants of ‘shame on you’ as Dundee University staff and students hold campus protest
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“Crass and inappropriate”
Shane O’Neill agrees that including the number of proposed job cuts in the password for the “recovery plan” was wrong.
But as he says here, this was not the 1st time he heard. He had learnt about it at uni meeting with witnesses.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Shane O’Neill agrees that including the number of proposed job cuts in the password for the “recovery plan” was wrong.
But as he says here, this was not the 1st time he heard. He had learnt about it at uni meeting with witnesses.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV
www.scottishparliament.tv
March 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“Crass and inappropriate”
Shane O’Neill agrees that including the number of proposed job cuts in the password for the “recovery plan” was wrong.
But as he says here, this was not the 1st time he heard. He had learnt about it at uni meeting with witnesses.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Shane O’Neill agrees that including the number of proposed job cuts in the password for the “recovery plan” was wrong.
But as he says here, this was not the 1st time he heard. He had learnt about it at uni meeting with witnesses.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
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Acting Chair of Court was “baffled” by the University of Dundee’s finances. And looks forward to the investigation helping to uncover what went wrong!
They still don’t know what went wrong at the University of Dundee.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
They still don’t know what went wrong at the University of Dundee.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV
www.scottishparliament.tv
March 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Acting Chair of Court was “baffled” by the University of Dundee’s finances. And looks forward to the investigation helping to uncover what went wrong!
They still don’t know what went wrong at the University of Dundee.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
They still don’t know what went wrong at the University of Dundee.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
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It is entirely right that the Scottish Parliament have invited Iain Gillespie to give evidence about the mismanagement uncovered at the University of Dundee.
He should attend and be held accountable.
He should attend and be held accountable.
Former Dundee University principal Iain Gillespie to face Holyrood committee
Former Dundee University principal Iain Gillespie to face Holyrood committee
The chairman of parliament's education committee has invited Professor Gillespie and other former senior leaders.
dlvr.it
March 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It is entirely right that the Scottish Parliament have invited Iain Gillespie to give evidence about the mismanagement uncovered at the University of Dundee.
He should attend and be held accountable.
He should attend and be held accountable.
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The crisis at Dundee requires asking some hard questions and knowing what to do with the answer.
Yesterday, I sat with the some senior staff at @dundeeuni.bsky.social and asked them questions about the so-called recovery process, on behalf of staff and students.
Yesterday, I sat with the some senior staff at @dundeeuni.bsky.social and asked them questions about the so-called recovery process, on behalf of staff and students.
March 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The crisis at Dundee requires asking some hard questions and knowing what to do with the answer.
Yesterday, I sat with the some senior staff at @dundeeuni.bsky.social and asked them questions about the so-called recovery process, on behalf of staff and students.
Yesterday, I sat with the some senior staff at @dundeeuni.bsky.social and asked them questions about the so-called recovery process, on behalf of staff and students.
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History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
History UK Disability and History Project
The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
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Yesterday @maggiechapman.bsky.social asked Shane O’Neill about Equality Impact Assessments, which are designed to protect colleagues with protected characteristics during periods of change.
He said that an EIA had not been completed for the recovery plan.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
He said that an EIA had not been completed for the recovery plan.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV
www.scottishparliament.tv
March 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Yesterday @maggiechapman.bsky.social asked Shane O’Neill about Equality Impact Assessments, which are designed to protect colleagues with protected characteristics during periods of change.
He said that an EIA had not been completed for the recovery plan.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
He said that an EIA had not been completed for the recovery plan.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
They need to move out of the way. Make space for people committed to sustainability of the institution based on humanist values, nit micro economic dogma, and on the advice on bean counters. #wearethe632
March 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
They need to move out of the way. Make space for people committed to sustainability of the institution based on humanist values, nit micro economic dogma, and on the advice on bean counters. #wearethe632
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The cuts to 632 posts announced by university executives hide behind the numbers.
Every post is a person, a valued colleague.
We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni
Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2
Every post is a person, a valued colleague.
We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni
Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2
March 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The cuts to 632 posts announced by university executives hide behind the numbers.
Every post is a person, a valued colleague.
We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni
Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2
Every post is a person, a valued colleague.
We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni
Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5203...
Proud of or CommEd students, standing up for the right to a broad education, and against the unjust cuts. #wearethe632
Proud of or CommEd students, standing up for the right to a broad education, and against the unjust cuts. #wearethe632
VIDEO: Chants of ‘shame on you’ as Dundee University staff and students hold campus protest
University students and staff gathered on the Campus Green to express their anger at job losses.
www.thecourier.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5203...
Proud of or CommEd students, standing up for the right to a broad education, and against the unjust cuts. #wearethe632
Proud of or CommEd students, standing up for the right to a broad education, and against the unjust cuts. #wearethe632
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Not a minute too soon ... damned for daring to embrace love as a core component of work with young people.
Not a minute too soon ... damned for daring to embrace love as a core component of work with young people.
Coldplay join calls to overturn Kids Company report ahead of legal challenge
Supporters of late founder Camila Batmanghelidjh say Charity Commission’s findings were unfair
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Not a minute too soon ... damned for daring to embrace love as a core component of work with young people.
Not a minute too soon ... damned for daring to embrace love as a core component of work with young people.
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Meet Glenn Massacre , nationally appointed Crime Reduction Czar for the driven grouse shooting industry .
He thinks it's ok that 134 hen harriers are 'missing' or have been illegally killed since 2018 , most on or close to grouse moors .
Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
He thinks it's ok that 134 hen harriers are 'missing' or have been illegally killed since 2018 , most on or close to grouse moors .
Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
March 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Meet Glenn Massacre , nationally appointed Crime Reduction Czar for the driven grouse shooting industry .
He thinks it's ok that 134 hen harriers are 'missing' or have been illegally killed since 2018 , most on or close to grouse moors .
Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
He thinks it's ok that 134 hen harriers are 'missing' or have been illegally killed since 2018 , most on or close to grouse moors .
Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...