#AcademicTwitter Wondering why my To Do list has doubled in size now semester is essentially done?!? #academicWorkload
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Halloween is coming, so if you want to scare me Iām afraid of a workload which can be done within a 40h week. #AcademicWorkload
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This seems like a really positive step from the Union branch, referring the University to the Health and Safety Executive after apparently exhausting internal procedures.
An important story to watch for sector-wide #AcademicWorkload
16 Oct 2024
The University of Birmingham is under investigation by the @H_S_E
āSince 2020, stress has been the largest cause of illness-related absence at the Univ, with over 500 staff off sick directly as a result of stress & over 17,000 days stress-related absenceā
birminghamucu.org/2024/10/16ā¦
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This surely has to be part of the #AcademicWorkload problem, yet it is very common to see academics act in openly-hostile ways towards professional services staff and the very *concept* of management.
Yes admin needs to be done well, but if it's done well it is a great gift.
15 Oct 2024
A big trend of the last 20 years has been admin headcount reduction, and I am *convinced* it's a big part of our productivity crisis.
Instead of one admin on 25k, you make 10 staff on 2-6x the pay do admin they're slow/inefficient at, costing vastly more. True in NHS/gvt/corps.
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47:45 āwhat ifā¦ good work is done on workload modelsā¦ and we work out that we really canāt afford what weāre delivering now? What if we sit down and work it out and see weāre really pulling off a miracle and that itāsā¦ immoral or illegal?ā #AcademicWorkload
20 Sep 2024
Podcast: Fees and funding, ABA closure, workload | Wonkhe buff.ly/3BcKAUm
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Today @WonkHE has published a few pieces on #AcademicWorkload and the related problems of workload in professional services staff. It is really good to see this issue get such strong attention.
A short thread to raise the profile of these pieces. 1/
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Really good to see professional bodies like @RoySocChem address burnout explicitly.
While burnout is not limited to academia, it is often associated with high #AcademicWorkload when it happens in universities; Chemistry academics may well find this session helpful.
30 Aug 2024
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When you are working 60h weeks and reading these plans isnāt a formal part of your #AcademicWorkload model, people - even people who really want to engage - often just have to skip them.
28 Aug 2024
What I donāt get is. If youāre an academic, how is it possible to be sent reasonable adjustment plans and then refuse to implement them or say out loud āoh Iāve not read thatā and not lose your job?
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This account has always shown #AcademicWorkload to be a key contributor to #burnout, but other factors are important as well.
One of these factors is agency: personal control over (elements of) your own working environment. 3/
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31 Jul 2024
The only way to stop this annual feeling of dread is to drag universities to a place where they allocate proper time and resource to do research and scholarship year round #academicworkload #fourfights
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A really interesting read. Academic jobs are so hyper-specialised and scarce/geographically dispersed that quitting is often an incredibly unattractive prospect.
That factors like #AcademicWorkload contribute to such extreme decisions is an indictment of the ways weāre managed.
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Really interesting exploration of how approaches to prepping lectures might be gendered.
This perhaps raises the question of whether āone sizeā #AcademicWorkload tariffs are sexist structures of management.
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25 Jun 2024
Academics will be like, āIāve discovered this new guilty pleasureā and itās just taking weekends off
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#AcademicWorkload is likely lower than high-level lawyer/finance workload, but itās interesting to reflect on how weak the link between productivity and pay can sometimes be.
17 Jun 2024
I tentatively think high lawyer/finance pay is a side effect of the industry having the social allowance to treat its employees in a totalising manner. I regularly see extremely dedicated people working six day weeks closing out tasks 3-4x faster than usual 9-5ers
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24 May 2024
surely this is the 3-day weekend that will fix my crippling burnout
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A really grim time to work in HE at the moment, but itās darkly interesting to see how the overwhelming #AcademicWorkload we endure has so little to do with whether managers close your department.
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Reflection on solving working conditions (like #AcademicWorkload or teacher workload) just by using money: my view is that it'd only work if the bump was at the 25% level so someone could work at 0.8FTE with no pay cut.
23 Apr 2024
NEWS: If you want to teach any of these subjects in schools or FE, we're offering you up to an extra Ā£6,000 per year after tax in your first five years of teaching.
Read more here š
gov.uk/government/news/teachā¦
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