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  • Draft calling notice for committee nominations for 2026-2027

    Nominations are invited for Oxford UCU Committee and associated posts given below, to take office on 1st September 2026 and serve until 31st August 2027. The new Committee will be announced at the Branch AGM taking place at 1 pm…

  • Research staff are not self-employed sole traders

    For National Postdoc Appreciation Week (16-20 September), many staff received an email from the Careers Service including a message about “The search for professional security as a researcher”. This message correctly identifies the precarity of short, fixed-term contracts as a…

  • Joint UCU branch statement on the Oxford and Cambridge Palestine solidarity encampments

    On Monday 6 May 2024, students from both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge set up encampments in protest at their institutions’ complicity in the Israeli assault on Gaza and Israel’s longstanding violations of international law through the crimes of…

  • Introduction to Oxford UCU

    Why you might want to join UCU and how to get involved in your local Oxford branch.

    Introduction to Oxford UCU