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PDR
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Which is most important when choosing a supervisor?
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Anyone else starting PhD this October 2025?
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Professional Services/Support Department people – feeling the squeeze?
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Managing my group is making me sick
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New to university lecturing
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Lecturer salaries going down
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Turnitin AI Detection?
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Dreading going back...anyone else?
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Unsuccessful in promotion round, next steps to take
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Hours of lecturing?
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Presentation for interview - slides?
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Anyone moved in to lecturing from another career
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Pregnancy during PhD?
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Side gig consultancy
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Faculty affairs
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How do you use ChatGPT?
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Academic Writing Retreats
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John Locke Global Essay Competition 2025
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resits plus essays - this is good news, right? staff opinions sought!
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Harvard stood up to Trump
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EDI in Research - can we please call out bad practices?
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PhD interview. What to expect?
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PhD corrections
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Length of time for a PhD viva in humanities?
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Do you use ai?
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USS benefits calculator help
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Harvard visitor (inc PD) ban
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Supreme Court ruling
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Revise and resubmit result following viva
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VC salaries
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PhD woes......just want a rant to fellow academics who might understand
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Annual leave
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Help with PhD Interview
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Researching without a permanent uni position
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Self-exploitation in academia
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Lincoln Redundancies
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Could a university just close down ?
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Columbia University
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OfS fine against Uni of Sussex
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Should we ask for the title of this board to be changed?
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University of Nottingham redundancies
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Academic article arguing we should all join UCU because it's the best way to save HE.
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Horrendous and very personal feedback from student
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Is Professor a job title/grade or permanent status?
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Doing a PhD
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I applied for the Voluntary Redundancy
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Is this normal or exploitative?
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what are the characteristics of STUDENTS at Oxbridge "feeders"/academically elite schools
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Remote roles
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