My over-riding sense is that UCL no longer cares about its staff. The consultation process was a sham and many of our questions went unanswered or we were given false information. For example we were told that if we took redundancy we were unable to return to work at UCL for two years. After I…
The Faculty of Life Sciences is supposed to be towards the end of their EASE implementation period. As part of this process, the support for PGRs has been upended despite assurances of an extension to the implementation period to ensure that there would be minimal disruption. People with expertise have been lost and positions remain…
The following is an edited discussion had by a small group of professional service administrators (across different grades), all of whom agreed to share this discussion with the view that other colleagues who are going through the EASE process may learn something from it.
I have been asked to write a bit about my experience of the EASE process, which our faculty has been through recently. It’s difficult to know where to start but my main experience has been one of dehumanization, as this is how the whole process is conceptualized, carried out and that also seems to be…
This whole process has led to high levels of anxiety for many of the team over a long period. Communication has been either non-existent or very limited. This has left us to fill in the gaps, worrying about worst-case scenarios, and far from ready to engage with any consultation process. Requests for any information are…
EASE lacked care, professionalism, and transparency from the start. Repeated errors in documentation made it clear departmental staff did not matter. Role allocation was opaque and stressful: we were required to ‘apply’ for jobs and indicate our preferences, but some received their first or second choice roles while others did not, with no feedback or…
UCL staff feel ‘betrayed’ over professional services shake-up Research behemoth’s plans to better coordinate staff at faculty level met with fierce opposition, amid fears of pay cuts and demotions Link to Times Higher Article [UCL’s institutional subscription gives UCL staff unlimited access to THE content online – details here]
2 Academic Board meetings to discuss EASE have been held (16 Septemberand 20 October 2025). A vote to pause the restructuring was passed at the first meeting with 66.8%in favour, and this margin was increased at the second meeting with 81.1% infavour. Despite this, Academic Board has been ignored!