Sarah Dobbs is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at University Centre at Blackburn College, and blogs for Friction Magazine on the rites of passage that are taking her from PhD to post. This is her third post. Redundancy. There’s nothing pretty about it. Neither is frozen pay, cuts in wages and the plethora of other creative responses being considered in thanks to the current government’s funding strategy particularly attractive. No prizes for stating the obvious there. Still, needs must and this is what the impact of the cuts looks like in the institution I’m at. It’s a tricky time to be an early career lecturer, trickier still to get that first job. At Blackburn, the lecturing jobs seem pretty safe and the Principal appears to want to avoid cutting pay. Administrative positions are in the firing line and voluntary redundancy consultations are taking place. But what is the impact…
