VC Eeva Leinonen tells staff, “we will need to reflect on our strategic delivery and adapt the way we deliver on our priorities”

Professor Leinonen announced yesterday a voluntary redundancy round, “further work … to reassess our academic courses, units and disciplines” and development of a change proposal “for professional staff.”

She added the aim of the VR round is, “lessening the impact of any required future involuntary redundancies.” Staff interested will need to be quick, expressions of interest close Friday week.

Professor Leinonen also announced consultation on adapting the academic workload model, for next year. This will build on the 2019 academic career framework, which included research targets which critics variously considered ambitious or impossible (CMM October 2 and October 4 2019).   Management is also working on a proposal for, “change which will focus on alignment of the professional staff resourcing required to enable and support our key activities and strategic priorities.”

Planning is also underway for “change to our unit, course and discipline offerings.”