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Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Business
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Uni staff strike for two days over 'withheld pay'
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) staff are striking over "withheld pay" from a deferred salary increase. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will strike on 24 and 25 March over management's decision to delay a 2.7% pay rise by seven months, without back pay. The university previously said it was struggling to finance the increase as it faced a "challenging time", and had initially delayed it by 11 months. The UCU accused the university of prioritising investment in new buildings over its staff. It said the average lecturer had lost about £100 every month due to the deferral. The university said every 1% increase to staff salaries cost about £2m. Striking sociology lecturer Dr Bob Jeffrey said he "really regretted" the impact the action would have on students, but "staff's working conditions are students' learning conditions". Although he accepted some staff members were "reasonably well-paid", he said some staff members were not, particularly those on zero-hour contracts. "There are only 24 teaching weeks in a year, that's more than half a year when those members of staff can't earn at all - so for those staff, the pay increase really matters." He said pay rises over the past 10 to 15 years had been "broadly below inflation, reducing pay by 35% on what it would have been", and an increasing number were "feeling that pain". UCU branch secretary Dr Ben Abell, a biosciences and chemistry lecturer, said the university had concentrated its funds on its new city centre and satellite London campuses. SHU said it was necessary to spend on buildings to make the university attractive to new students, and the London campus would diversify income. Sheffield Hallam University have been contacted for further comment. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds or catch up with the latest episode of Look North. University delays pay rise in 'challenging time' University staff to strike over job cut threat
BBC News
24-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University staff strike over pay rise deferral
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) staff are striking over "withheld pay" from a deferred salary of the University and College Union (UCU) will strike on 24 and 25 March over management's decision to delay a 2.7% pay rise by seven months, without back university previously said it was struggling to finance the increase as it faced a "challenging time", and had initially delayed it by 11 UCU accused the university of prioritising investment in new buildings over its staff. It said the average lecturer had lost about £100 every month due to the university said every 1% increase to staff salaries cost about £ sociology lecturer Dr Bob Jeffrey said he "really regretted" the impact the action would have on students, but "staff's working conditions are students' learning conditions".Although he accepted some staff members were "reasonably well-paid", he said some staff members were not, particularly those on zero-hour contracts."There are only 24 teaching weeks in a year, that's more than half a year when those members of staff can't earn at all - so for those staff, the pay increase really matters."He said pay rises over the past 10 to 15 years had been "broadly below inflation, reducing pay by 35% on what it would have been", and an increasing number were "feeling that pain". UCU branch secretary Dr Ben Abell, a biosciences and chemistry lecturer, said the university had concentrated its funds on its new city centre and satellite London said it was necessary to spend on buildings to make the university attractive to new students, and the London campus would diversify Hallam University have been contacted for further comment. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds or catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Interactive boat at heart of River Don art exhibition
A new exhibition explores the "cultural and environmental significance" of the River Don in Amy Carter-Gordon said the fæthm [fathom] exhibition at the Kelham Island Museum "explores people's relationships with the Don and the local environment".A joint venture between Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and the River Don Project, the exhibition will include an "ambient podcast" which can be downloaded while walking along the river to where Professor David Cotterrell's boat installation will make its debut at Ball Street installation - BIDE - features a traditional Yorkshire coble "in distress" at Kelham Island weir, flooding and then bailing itself out again. "The idea is for people to listen to very slow, calming audio and spoken word, mixed with beautiful nature sounds, for the purpose of well-being and relaxation," explained Ms encourages a sense of connectedness to the river, and has been designed for both wakers and those who might be unable to get outdoors, she the main exhibition at Kelham Island Museum, visitors will find experimental films and soundscapes, alongside prints of figs from the trees along the Don and drawings by Joanna Rucklidge "exploring the juxtaposition of the river's wildlife with plastic litter on the riverbank".The four-day show in the museum's upper gallery also includes Joanne Lee's visual essays about the "cyclical processes of the river throughout its history and future using found objects" and Dr Rose Butler's photographs capturing riverside silt, fig leaves, hemlock - and remnants of a rave along the river. The Don runs nearly 70 miles (113 km) through South Yorkshire via Sheffield's Don Valley, Penistone, Rotherham, Mexborough, Conisbrough, Doncaster and was re-routed in the 17th century to allow for the draining of Hatfield Chase, and was once one of the most polluted rivers in the country. However, habitats have been improved, with two sites now providing refuge for fish and wetland birds, and fish populating the river once to the exhibition can also learn about about the health of river at a live water testing lab, testing samples from the Don using equipment from the university's biomolecular sciences research centre. Alban Krashi, from The River Don Project, said the exhibition would provide "a unique opportunity to explore and understand our relationships with nature"."We see the River Don and its surrounding bio-region as an ecological citizen interacting with human citizens whose growing awareness of the needs and wants of the river can inform and enhance their own 'ecological citizenship'," he exhibition runs from Thursday 13th until Sunday 16th March, at Kelham Island Museum's upper gallery, and on the river near Ball Street Bridge. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
