Re: PhD positions at Leicester, UK

[David Roberts <droberts.65537@gmail.com>]

For what it's worth, we should point out the elephant in the room:

"The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, Nishan
Canagarajah, wants to lay off all 8 of their pure mathematicians,
including the only 2 women with permanent positions, and then rehire
just 3 of these mathematicians — to do teaching, but not research. He
and his flunkies claim:
[…] to ensure a future research identity in AI, computational
modelling, digitalisation and data science requires ceasing research
in Pure Mathematics […]"
(source: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/01/problems_at_the_university_of.html)

"The London Mathematical Society has been informed that the University
of Leicester is consulting over a proposal to reduce the size of its
Pure Mathematics Group to be teaching only, in order to “meet the
rising market demand of artificial intelligence, computational
modelling, digitalisation and data science”. The Society strongly
opposes this proposal and believes it to be seriously flawed for the
following reasons. ..."
(source: https://www.lms.ac.uk/news-entry/09022021-1444/mathematics-university-leicester)

And as a result:
https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11533/Global-boycott-of-University-of-Leicester-begins-today

If someone can update us on the status of the various category
theorists and allies it would be very useful.

Thanks,

David



David Roberts
Webpage: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/David+Roberts
Blog: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com

On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 09:56, Crole, Roy L. (Dr.) <rlc3@leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Please see below for new PhD positions
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> https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities/informatics-gta-2021
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> Kind regards,
>
> Roy Crole.
>

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