Thoughts on The Open University's attempt to research the world wide conspiracy of organised transphobia evidenced in the employment tribunal system
By Jo Phoenix
On being a professional academic in an anti-intellectual age
Highly personal and slighty ranty take on working in universities in the UK
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I’ve been a criminologist for more than 3 decades.
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Somehow the anniversary of when I and colleagues set up The Open University Gender Critical Network passed me by this week.
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May 2026.
Irrelevant Considerations
Yesterday, the High Court handed down judgment in R (University of Sussex) v Office for Students. The University won. The £585,000 fine has been quashed. The OfS has been found to have predetermined the decision, picked Sussex as a “test case” to incentivise the sector, refused to settle on any terms short of full admission, ignored the institution’s principal free speech document, and operated…
Be Collegial, Or Else
How a word that once meant self-governance in the profession came to mean compliance
Confirmation bias and rhetoric makes a poor basis for legal reform
A response to Kate Lister
We Have Arrived. The Problem Has Changed
Some thoughts on the 2nd anniversary of my win against The Open University