Thank you very much for your support - this is fantastic, 10k signatures and counting, less than one week after launching this petition!

Despite this wonderful support, little progress has been made in the consultations. 

We are almost halfway through the consultation period and:

• Staff at risk of redundancy have not yet received relevant data to formulate counter proposals (e.g. student-staff ratios, budgets, etc);
• The majority of collective consultation meetings still need to happen;
• In those few meetings that have already taken place, staff have been told to draft plans for redeployment and teaching-out themselves in order for any counterproposal to stand a chance to be accepted. Rather than a real counterproposal, to us this sounds like we are now tasked to deliver the plans for the closure of our departments ourselves. 

How can staff at risk of redundancy engage meaningfully in consultation if they are asked to implement their own redundancy? How can staff continue to teach, mark and do research while crafting complex counterproposals with only half of the consultation period left, having spent the first 15 days waiting for data and meetings with university leadership?

We urge the University to stop the consultation period, cease the threat of redundancy for staff and engage with truly meaningful consultation to balance the books whilst maximising subject and staff retention.