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<td>Redundancies at Newcastle Geography</td>
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<td>Fri, 16 May 2025 10:00:38 +0000</td>
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<td>Rachel Pain
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<div>Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div>I’m writing to share the news that last week 21
geographers at Newcastle University were informed they were
at risk of redundancy. </div>
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<div>This affects 20 full Professors and one Principal
Research Associate, as well as 9 Professors in Politics who
are also in our School. The overall reduction sought is 3
FTE. These staff, who will spend the coming weeks applying
for their own jobs and competing
with each other, range from colleagues promoted to Professor
last year to those with over 20 years of service at
Newcastle and many in between. Each makes highly valued and
vital contributions to our teaching, research and external
engagement and is an integral
part of our community. </div>
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<div>This follows the loss of 7 Geography staff in the last 18
months, through voluntary severance, relocations and
retirements. And we are not confident that further rounds of
redundancies will not follow. </div>
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<div>Targeting Professors in such a successful department,
whether measured by research excellence or student
recruitment and experience, or, seems a self-destructive act
on the part of the University. But to be clear, we oppose
any redundancies at any grade
and view these as unnecessary and misguided. </div>
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<div>We see this as the latest step in Newcastle University’s
mismanaged attempt to reduce expenditures. Unlike other
universities, Newcastle is not in deficit but has a strong
cash and borrowing position. It has already achieved £15.8m
of staff savings against
its target of £20m, but despite resistance is now pressing
ahead with compulsory redundancies - or “workforce resizing”
- to save a further £3.8m.</div>
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<div>We’re asking colleagues across Geography, in the UK and
beyond, to share this news, and to contact our senior
management team (below) to express opposition to the threat
of these redundancies and the damage they will do to our
students, our research, and
the wider geographical community. In addition, if you have
useful knowledge about the UK legal context around similar
redundancies, please reach out to any of us who you know at
Newcastle. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Contact details as follows:</div>
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<div>Vice Chancellor - Professor Chris Day <a
href="mailto:chris.day@newcastle.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#467886"><u>chris.day@newcastle.ac.uk</u></font></a> </div>
<div>Deputy Vice Chancellor - Professor Nigel Harkness <a
href="mailto:nigel.harkness@newcastle.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#467886"><u>nigel.harkness@newcastle.ac.uk</u></font></a> </div>
<div>Chair of University Council Pat Ritchie <a
href="mailto:pat.ritchie@newcastle.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#467886"><u>pat.ritchie@newcastle.ac.uk</u></font></a>
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<div>Thankyou.</div>
<div>Rachel </div>
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<div>Rachel Pain (she/her)</div>
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<div>Dean of Social Justice</div>
<div>Professor of Human Geography</div>
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