8. Forced-out lecturer's work now being offered to part-timers

Evidence has come to light that the Surrey Psychology Department is looking for part-time, hourly paid staff (including research students) to do the work of at least one lecturer who was forced to take 'voluntary' redundancy.

The e-mail below, a follow-up to the announcement of work for part-timers, comes from a senior member of the Psychology department, who asked its recipients to "share this information as widely as you need to."

Note: we have edited out the name of the psychologist whose lecturing is now being offered to part-timers.

The teaching does relate to the restructure, so people should make
considered choices about that in light of their professional and union
commitments certainly. One of the members of staff - [NAME DELETED] - who
took the enhanced voluntary severance package, would have done that
teaching if he was staying after Christmas. Sadly he is not.
To my knowledge UCU are not contesting the restructure at all. Reps
have been monitoring it locally, attending meetings where we have been
told our jobs are at risk etc., and they haven't argued with the process
so far. (Those of us who didn't take the package have been told that we
are no longer at risk, BTW).

Feel free to share this information as widely as you need to.

Cheers,

Points to note:

The author explicitly recognises that the work offered "does relate" to the restructure. What is not said is that this work was the expertise of a member of staff who was so discouraged from believing that there was a place for them in the new structure that they were forced to leave.

To imply that this member of staff somehow chose to go knowing that his course would then need to be farmed out is as hurtful as it is false.

The more obvious implication is that this lecturer's post was known to be necessary, but the Department preferred that her/his teaching be taught by a student rather than an established academic.

The insult and bad faith scarcely require comment.