UKRI cautious on transparency and sanctions over bullying

Radical measures to combat bullying in UK science may backfire, warns sector bullying lead, but ex-research council head urges boldness

Published on
March 15, 2022
Last updated
March 16, 2022
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Drawbacks: lack of bullying data makes the scale of the issue difficult to assess

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The important thing is to start recognising bullying as a prevalent problem in academia. More importantly institutions seem to have no strategy to address it, they are incapable of dealing with it or introducing policies to prevent it, unlike almost every other problem real or imagined. Why not get UKRI to require an anti-bullying strategy from all those who want funding and then tell them to report against that strategy with the number of reports being one factor and maybe staff satisfaction with the outcome of those complaints being another.

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