PDR feedback and upcoming events

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Dear members, we have recently released an email asking you for any feedback relating to the form or process of your Annual Performance and Development Review (PDR), which have been revised. If you have any comments or experiences about the new PDR process which you would like to share with us, please do so by emailing us at ucu@york.ac.uk.

We also wanted to share the following events:
Discussing Decolonisation
Friday 18th September, 12-6pm, at York St Johns University
Singing Resistance
Friday 25th September 09.30-11.30 am at the University of York
Defending the University: Free Inquiry and the Question of Safety
Friday 25th September, 12-1pm, LMB/031
Defending the University: A talk by Aaron Winter, Senior Lecturer in Race and Anti-Racism at Lancaster University
Monday 28th September, 12-2pm, LMB/030

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Branch Meeting 7th July 2026

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Highlights from the meeting:
  • Introduction to the new exec for 2026/27
  • We donated £200 to the LSBU branch to support them in their industrial action
  • We discussed the new PDR process, and particularly concerns over how the Community Without Limits framework is being used as part of it. Members are encouraged to contact the exec with their experiences of PDRs over the summer and into autumn.
  • We discussed the prospect of further significant organisational changes in the near future, with recruitment of a new VC, the “strategy refresh”, and so on. Members are encouraged to respond to the recent survey “Shaping our future Vice-Chancellor”.

UCU UoY issue a public statement against the UoY UEB on VS and Changes to Work

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Following a branch motion earlier in May, UCU UoY are compelled to tell the wider world what is being done at the University of York.

https://york.web.ucu.org.uk/statementmay2024/

We think that the University Executive Board is wrecking our university through disasterous decisions about voluntary severance and proposed changes to how the university works.

We have released a statement to the members and the wider world and to students. We have also created a song to express our feelings on this matter: https://youtu.be/2RrUrze0Mk8