According to his CV he is no longer at UCL for two years now, and seem to be unaffiliated. Anyone knows what happened? I thought researchers in the UK had tenure by default.
What happened to Liam Graham (UCL)
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UCL is a bottom feeder institution. It artificially inflates its rank and government money allocation by aggressively pushing academics to produce questionable research. Scientific misconduct is rampant. When you aren't good anymore at gaming the system to churn out lots of cr ap, UCL simply do without you.
According to his CV he is no longer at UCL for two years now, and seem to be unaffiliated. Anyone knows what happened? I thought researchers in the UK had tenure by default.
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In the UK you can always be fired, no matter your rank. There's no untenured/tenured faculty, only "on probation" and "permanent" faculty. Being permanent in the UK only means you're not on probation anymore, while being on probation only means you're not permanent yet. As simple as that. Like when they say 'Brexit means Brexit'.
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Permanent means you can only be fired in the case of serious misconduct or if the University decides to reduce the headcount of the Department. Since this latter involves a whole mess of procedures it almost never happens, I don't think in the UK since the early 90s with South Bank.
If they could fire people, why do you think UCL would hang on to so much deadweight: at least 7 of their highly paid faculty won't have published enough to be eligible for the REF and most look as if they'll never publish again: Armendariz, Carlin, Cripps, Lechene, Nesheim, Pemberton, Preston, Smith.
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I don't know this guy so I'm also contributing to poking my nose in someone's personal business I know nothing about, but looking at his site, looks like he's not published anything to eligible for the REF.
In which case, UCL would almost certainly convert him to a teaching-only member of staff. If you're not in the REF, you're not demonstrably 'research active'.
I would leave academia too if my fate was a full-time teacher. Think we all would, whether the job was permanent or not.
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Sames as in Australia. Unis like Monash use the language of tenure to refer to the end of the probation period, but it's inaccurate and misleading. I've seen so many "permanente" faculty laid off because they refused to practice misconduct to publish any cr ap.
In the UK you can always be fired, no matter your rank. There's no untenured/tenured faculty, only "on probation" and "permanent" faculty. Being permanent in the UK only means you're not on probation anymore, while being on probation only means you're not permanent yet. As simple as that. Like when they say 'Brexit means Brexit'.
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This is not really accurate. A permanent faculty member can be fired for not properly fulfilling their teaching/admin/research. The actual difference with those on probation, is that you then need to go through a long process, which includes several "warnings", until this can actually be done. In reality, this therefore hardly ever happens (though I know of one particular case, and heard of a few others), as it's very costly to do, and therefore departments go for the easier solution of massively increasing your teaching and admin loads.
Permanent means you can only be fired in the case of serious misconduct or if the University decides to reduce the headcount of the Department. Since this latter involves a whole mess of procedures it almost never happens, I don't think in the UK since the early 90s with South Bank.
If they could fire people, why do you think UCL would hang on to so much deadweight: at least 7 of their highly paid faculty won't have published enough to be eligible for the REF and most look as if they'll never publish again: Armendariz, Carlin, Cripps, Lechene, Nesheim, Pemberton, Preston, Smith. -
Took a look at this guys CV and it’s weird. Looks like he started economics at 31 or 32. 4 years later he got a PhD from Birkbeck (where?), with a finance job at the same time. 2 years later he got a job at UCL, in spite of Birkbeck, no publications and no sign of any publications at the level UCL look for. 6 years later they promote him to associate, with nothing like the level UCL look for
Then 5 years later he vanishesAny thoughts?