The Leeds UCU teach-out programme for the 2020 UK Higher Education Strike.

Please sign up below to propose a teach-out!

Events take place, unless otherwise stated, in the Quaker Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9DX. http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/meetings/central-leeds.

Rooms are disabled-accessible unless otherwise stated. For events outside the Quaker Meeting House, see the 'notes' column for accessibility information.

For more information about the events or to edit this programme, contact Alaric Hall, alaric@cantab.net. For more information about the strike, see http://www.leedsucu.org.uk/.

We can usually provide a data projector and speakers, but if you'd like any other equipment, you need to be able to provide it yourself! NB we're really keen to give everyone who wants to a chance to run teach-out sessions, but we are limited for time-slots, so please don't be offended if we can't fit your session in. Priority will be given to people who offered papers and were left out in the last strike, and after that to ensuring a broad range of subjects and participants.

Sessions normally run from 1pm to 3pm to fit around picketing and room availability. If you're able to provide your own venue, however, you can schedule your event whenever you want!

Andrew Rotter (Colgate University), Sean Fear, Elisabeth Leake

Michalis Kontopodis, Stephanie Dennison, Gill Main, Thea Pitman

Join us for an open discussion forum where disabled staff and students can come together to discuss issues around accessibility and inclusion in Higher Education. We will discuss topics like institutional disablism and the disability employment and pay gap. We will explore questions like are we working in an enabling or a disabling environment? What are the issues and what needs to change? What additional barriers to success and wellbeing do disabled staff face in neoliberal Higher Education environments? How do the struggles of disabled staff and students intersect with UCUs current Four Fights? What activist actions do we want to take during the UCU 2020 strikes and after to make Higher Education a more inclusive environment? The aim of the session is to kick start a UCU Disability Working Group. Everyone is welcome to attend, whether you identify as disabled or as an ally. Whether this is your area of expertise, you are personally affected by these issues, or you are just interested in learning more from others, we will facilitate a space where we can all share our insights.

With four weeks of disruption due to the UCU strike, it's crucial we as students understand the dispute. Join us and the president of Leeds UCU to discuss why the strike is occurring and why students have a major stake in the success of UCU.

www.facebook.com/leedsstudentstaffsolidarity

This session will build on last week’s session. We will delve deeper into last week’s discussions. However, if you didn’t have the chance to come along to last week’s session, then don’t worry, we will make sure that you have the opportunity to contribute your thoughts and insights in this session. The session will focus on generating ideas for concrete actions that we can do during the strikes, to raise the profile of this issue, if we think that this is helpful to the overall goals of the UCU 2020 strikes.

Monday 2 March to Tuesday 3 (!)

Tickets at www.facebook.com/leedsstudentstaffsolidarity

www.facebook.com/leedsstudentstaffsolidarity

This session will be an opportunity for students and staff to get together and learn some uplifting protest songs to sing together in harmony - no musical or singing experience is required. Come along! singing with others make you feel great.

This session will focus on discussing on what activist work we might want to do around the issues that we have identified after the UCU 2020 strikes are over, and how we might wish to structure this work. Again, if you haven’t attended the previous sessions, you are still very very welcome to join J

This session will be aimed primarily at staff; namely academic-related, lecturers, supervisors, and managers, etc, but is also highly relevant for students as well. The session is on how not to be complicit with the enforcing of surveillance culture and bordering duties of immigration officers within the university. All international students and staff alike experience the Hostile environment within the university; and most of those enforcing it don’t know that they are going beyond and above what is required by Home office regulations. The university has implemented those regulations in a draconian manner, with no awareness as to the impact this has on the mental health of migrants at the university. Similarly, colonial logic underscores those practices, and students themselves might be victim to these, or reinforce them without being aware. There is no standard procedure across the board, let alone in school and departments, so this training course is aimed at raising awareness and arming staff and students alike with the skills to spot those procedures and resist the entrenched colonial legacy of universities.

This session will be aimed primarily at staff; namely academic-related, lecturers, supervisors, and managers, etc, but is also highly relevant for students as well. The session is on how not to be complicit with the enforcing of surveillance culture and bordering duties of immigration officers within the university. All international students and staff alike experience the Hostile environment within the university; and most of those enforcing it don’t know that they are going beyond and above what is required by Home office regulations. The university has implemented those regulations in a draconian manner, with no awareness as to the impact this has on the mental health of migrants at the university. Similarly, colonial logic underscores those practices, and students themselves might be victim to these, or reinforce them without being aware. There is no standard procedure across the board, let alone in school and departments, so this training course is aimed at raising awareness and arming staff and students alike with the skills to spot those procedures and resist the entrenched colonial legacy of universities.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e_9bsmfkEJnCJdGd6q2PlvY_LmmAVLXzyZgnoY-4dX0/edit?usp=sharing

Also planning on joint march with NEU from Notre Dame, on the day we are both striking, which is 10th March, setting off at 11:30.

Need big room for General Meeting on Monday 2nd March at 12 noon – 1 pm. (and no teachouts then!)