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发帖数: 7400 | 1 Queen Mary University of London 两位学者因为发文指责学校管理双双被开，
阴帝这么做，似乎与民主先驱国身份不符啊。
https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/dismissal-was-unfair-but-academic-
sparked-it-himself
Dismissal was unfair, but academic sparked it himself
Refusal by John Allen to obey instruction from manager at Queen Mary
University of London led to his sacking, tribunal rules
June 25 2015
A former Queen Mary University of London academic was unfairly dismissed but
contributed “100 per cent” to his demise because he disobeyed a direct
management instruction to teach a course, an employment tribunal has ruled.
John Allen, formerly professor of biochemistry at Queen Mary, was sacked in
May 2014 after a turbulent two years that began with his co-authorship of a
letter to medical journal The Lancet. The letter lambasted a metrics-driven
restructuring plan at Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical
Sciences and alleged that the head of school and Professor Allen’s line
manager, Matthew Evans, failed to meet one of the criteria he had imposed as
a condition of continuing employment in the school.
Both letter writers were charged with misconduct. Fanis Missirlis, who was
then a lecturer in cell biology at Queen Mary, was sacked for failing to
meet the performance criteria before his case was heard. Professor Allen,
however, was acquitted – largely, the tribunal ruling says, because the
charges were misdrafted.
In September 2012, Professor Allen began a year’s sabbatical, which had
been agreed with Professor Evans before their relationship broke down. While
he was away, he was invited to a meeting with Professor Evans to discuss
his alleged failure to meet various performance metrics. Professor Allen
argued that he had he met them and, after a further email exchange, “
completely disconnect[ed] from any workable relationship with Professor
Evans”.
Professor Evans subsequently sent him several emails setting out his
intention to remove Professor Allen’s entire pre-sabbatical teaching
allocation and to replace it with a new one. According to the tribunal
ruling, Professor Allen ignored some of the emails, “was obstructive in
responding to others and disengaged from the respondent’s need to properly
plan for the forthcoming academic year”.
Professor Allen argued that both his contract and common understandings of
academic freedom entitled him to be consulted about changes to his teaching
allocation. The ruling agrees that the absence of consultation was “
unreasonable”, although it adds that academic freedom “did not confer a
right…to flatly refuse to teach courses he was able and competent to do”.
Professor Allen was formally disciplined in late 2013 for refusing to teach
the course and for poor performance, resulting in a written warning. However
, the tribunal judge rules that Queen Mary’s response to a grievance
Professor Allen submitted at the same time against Professor Evans was “
confused and unreasonably delayed”.
Professor Allen was then asked by a different manager to teach another
course. When he said that he would not, he was sacked for refusing to obey a
“reasonable management instruction”.
The ruling says that this amounted to unfair dismissal because the dismissal
panel had failed to take into account the dispute over the removal of
Professor Allen’s previous teaching, which the tribunal deems to be
unreasonable and with which his subsequent attitude was “inextricably
linked”.
However, Professor Allen has been denied any compensation because he “
contributed to his dismissal by 100 per cent” for refusing a reasonable
management instruction. Through his general conduct, he had “clearly
demonstrated that he was not prepared to be managed”.
The tribunal also rules that the Lancet letter does not meet the legal
definition of whistleblowing and that Professor Evans met the metrics
threshold.
Professor Allen is now an affiliate at University College London and has
been awarded a research fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust but currently
does not have a lab.
[email protected]
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发帖数: 7400 | 2 相比之下饶毅和11公在science发文抨击中国学术界基金审批，依然还能拿到研究基金
。中国似乎比阴帝大度啊 | S******8
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发帖数: 11319 | 4 中国盲目崇拜白人体制的搞笑景象维持不了多久了
【在 n***c 的大作中提到】
: 相比之下饶毅和11公在science发文抨击中国学术界基金审批，依然还能拿到研究基金
: 。中国似乎比阴帝大度啊
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