UCU: LGBT+ dimensions of the sectoral crisis including redundancies

Motion

Motion title: LGBT+ dimensions of the sectoral crisis including redundancies

Motion text: Conference notes with concern
1. increasingly standardised language across the sector around “right-size”
institutions.
2. this language almost always means reductions.
3. the impact of the trend towards larger, more team-taught and less specialist
modules in the name of “simplification” of degrees and mitigation of risks to
teaching.
Conference believes this will have a disproportionate impact on specialist
teaching and teaching about marginalised groups, e.g. LGBT+ people.
Conference calls for
a. exploration of the impact on LGBT+ staff including where universities are not
doing enough to monitor the impact of the crisis on minority groups
b. Work with professional, community and student organisations to monitor and
resist the impact on LGBT+ courses / research
c. Continuation of UCU commitment to the leading work on LGBT+ research
conferences including publication of conference papers
d. Support for LGBT+ staff minimising the psychological, mental, physical
impact (particularly for casualised/fixed-term workers).