An open letter from staff, students and friends of the University of York
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A copy of this letter was submitted to the Vice-Chancellor on Wednesday 26th April, with 799 signatures from staff, students, alumni and examiners.
The letter remains open and new additions to the list of signatories remain very welcome.
You need to have a University of York IT account and email address to sign, but if alumni, honorary graduates and other influential friends of the University would like to add your names, you are very welcome to contact me directly (helen.smith@york.ac.uk).
Dear Professor Jeffery
We write to ask you to reconsider the University of York’s decision to deduct 50% of pay from staff who participate in the University and College Union’s Marking and Assessment Boycott.
You are right that a Marking and Assessment Boycott is an extraordinary step. But it is not unprecedented at York. UCU members at York participated in marking and assessment boycotts in 2006 and 2014. We came through them with a renewed sense of our collective commitment to our students and – as soon as the boycotts were lifted – we worked together with purpose and dedication to ensure every student progressed or graduated on time.
The point of industrial action is to demonstrate how much employees’ labour matters. Nothing shows how much the work of university staff matters as much as the progression and graduation each year of thousands of fantastic students.
We know you appreciate how much University of York staff give to the institution and to our students. We know that you are painfully aware that many staff routinely work well beyond their contracted hours in order to support our students and fulfil our academic and social mission. A 50% deduction in salary is in no way proportionate to the time staff spend on marking, nor does it recognise the very significant hours staff regularly put in over and above the standard working week.
You have emphasised the need to be clear about the potential impact of the Marking and Assessment Boycott on students. We also have to be clear about the real impact of this deduction on staff. If we go through with this policy, there will be members of staff who will not be able to pay their rent, household bills, mortgages, childcare or other caring costs.
The impact of the pay deductions, and of attempts to reallocate marking on an abbreviated timescale, have already had a catastrophic impact on staff goodwill. The signatories of this letter fear we will feel the results of that impact for a long time. Most urgently, we will feel it if the Boycott is lifted: a moment when we will need every scrap of goodwill we can muster.
Students and staff alike will benefit from a humane, proportionate response to the Marking and Assessment Boycott. Please reconsider the decision to slash the pay of hardworking colleagues across the University. Like you, we fervently hope this dispute can be resolved soon. We hope too that we can come out of it with a sense of shared purpose and a collective determination to celebrate the University of York as a place where students and staff can thrive.
Yours sincerely
Professor Helen Smith, Head of Department, English and Related Literature
Professor Lawrence Black (History)
Professor Martin O’Neill (Philosophy)
Professor Paul Cairns, Head of Department, Computer Science
Prof Claire Chambers
Professor Kevin Killeen, English
Dr Olivia Carpenter (Lecturer, English)
Erica Sheen
Dr Lola Boorman (Lecturer, English)
Dr Sara de Jong (Senior Lecturer Politics)
Professor Monika S. Schmid, Head of Department, Language and Linguistic Science
Dr Janine Bradbury (Senior Lecturer, English)
Dr Rob Aitken (Senior Lecturer, Dept of Politics)
Venus Bivar
Sam Wetherell
Prof. Chris Renwick
Dr Penny Bickle (Archaeology)
Prof. Rachel Cowgill, School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Dr Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Senior Lecturer, English
Dr Emilie Murphy
Dr Simon Mollan
Dr Alice Hall
Shane Hamilton, School for Business and Society
Dr James Williams
Jeremy Goldberg
Dr Claire Westall, English
Dr Heather Marsden (Senior Lecturer, Language and Linguistic Science)
Guy Halsall, Professor of History
Professor Jim Watt (English)
Dr Aimée Little, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
Professor Roland Gehrels, Head of Department of Environment and Geography
Dr Robyn Cooper Inglis (RIKE)
Dr Lynne Baxter School of Business for Society
Stephen Minta
Dr Patrik Huber (Lecturer, Computer Science)
Aleksandra McClain, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Archaeology
Cllr George Norman, Hull Road Ward, Alumnus (History)
Vincent Hughes
Dr Jacob Eriksson, Politics
Dr Simon Sweeney, School for Business and Society
Dr David Ingram (Philosophy)
Dr Harald Fredheim (Lecturer, dept Archaeology)
Professor Graeme Davies (politics)
Gabriele Badano (Politics)
Dr Edd Mair
Dr Maya Caspari (English)
Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks, (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Sarah West
Professor Catherine Laws, School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Scott Jackson (current student)
Amanda Behm, History
Dr Nicole Lindstrom (Politics)
Matt Lemon (Health Sciences)
Dr. David Orton, Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology
Prof Elizabeth Tyler (English and Centre for Medieval Studies)
Dr Benjamin Bland (Alumni & Former Lecturer, Dept of History)
Alex Mackay (Studio Scholar, School of Arts & Creative Technologies)
Sierra Carter (PGR and GTA, Department of English and Related Literature)
Prof. Emerita Gillian Russell (English)
Fiona McKeand (International Pathway College)
Professor Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo FRSL
Dr Katherine Weikert (Archaeology alumnus)
Stuart Kenny, PhD Student, PET
Dr Bryan Radley
Dr Hannah Boast, University College Dublin (Alumnus, English)
Professor Simon Parker (Politics)
Rohin Alexander (Alumnus, History)
Dr Colleen Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
Dr Emma Major (English)
Dr Keith A. Wilson, University of Oslo (alumnus)
Dr Jeremy Moulton (Politics)
Dr Tom Johnson (History)
Professor Caroline Dessent, Head of Department, Chemistry
Dr. Lizzie Wright (Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Archaeology)
Dr. Cylcia Bolibaugh (Education)
Professor Matt Matravers, York Law School
Dr Thomas Houlton (English)
Dr Gerard McCann, History
Daryl Martin (Senior Lecturer, Sociology)
Dr Hannah Jeans (Lecturer, History)
Dr Jen Beeston (Computer Science)
Dr Philip Roberts, Department of Politics
Dr Joanna Gilmore, Senior Lecturer, York Law School
Professor Martin Jones (York Law School)
Dr Chloe Wigston Smith (Senior Lecturer, English)
Lucy Moore
Dr Mary Garrison
Stephanie Jesper (Library, Archives & Learning Services)
Dr Alan Millard (Lecturer, Computer Science)
Professor Charlotte O’Brien (Law)
Professor Paul Foulkes (Deputy Head of Department, Language & Linguistic Science)
Dr Francesca Brooks (Postdoc, English)
Dr. Cynthia Meersohn (Sociology)
Dr Mattia Pinto (Lecturer, York Law School and Centre for Applied Human Rights)
Dr Alice Welsh (Research Fellow, York Law School)
Carl Makin (PhD student and Associate Lecturer, York Law School)
Dr Debbie Maxwell (Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Alex Green, York Law School
Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin (Senior Lecturer, York Law School)
Professor Adam Crawford, York Law School
Dr Di Yang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, York Law School)
Dr. Alison O'Byrne
Tom Straszewski
Jade Richards (York Law School)
Catriona Kennedy, Senior Lecturer in History, University of York
Dr Ioana Cismas, Reader YLS & Co-director CAHR
Kieran Durkin
Patricia Bartley (CAHR)
Dr Judith Krauss (Lecturer, Politics)
Anjali Vyas-Brannick (PhD researcher due to graduate July 2023)
Professor Ellen Annandale
Dr Scott Steele
Jean McKendree (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Sarah McKeagney
Matt Shaw, Queen’s College Library Oxford (alumnus)
Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell (English alumnus)
Dr Simon Skempton (IPC)
Dr Kate Leader, York Law School
Dr Shaul Mitelpunkt, Senior Lecturer, History
Prof. Jane Hawkes
Dr Kenneth Clarke, Senior Lecturer, Dept.of English and Related Literature
Siobhan Dunlop (Library, Archives and Learning Services)
Dr Elizabeth Hurrell (Environment and Geography)
Dr Magdalena Furgalska (York Law School)
Roseanna Kettle (current PhD)
Emma Marshall, PhD student and GTA
Caroline Anjali Ritchie
Prof. Jason Edwards (History of Art)
Prof Colin Beale (Biology)
Professor Jon Mee, Department of English
Professor Mary Leng, Philosophy
Prof Tim Ayers, History of Art
Dr Richard Johns, History of Art
Amanda Rees (Sociology)
Professor Emilie Morin, English
Mark Hodson (former head of dept, Env and Geog)
Dr Sarah Wilson, York Law School
Dr Emma Waring (YLS)
Prof Matthew Townend (English)
Jo Cook (PhD Researcher)
Jill Lavender
Professor Richard Nolan, York Law School
Shazia Jagot (Lecturer English)
Dr Tim Wingard (Lecturer in Late Medieval History)
Siamak Shahandashti (Senior Lecturer, Computer Science)
Professor John Bowen (English)
Professor Leo McCann, School for Business & Society
Tim Long (Project Coordinator, International Recruitment Team)
Dr Ollie Jones, School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Dr Juliana Mensah (Lecturer, English)
Nick Jones
Laurie Chetwood (PGR and GTA, English Literature)
Charline Foch (PhD student, GTA)
Dr Aidan Horner (Senior Lecturer, Psychology)
Dr Ann Kaloski-Naylor (retired, Honorary Fellow CWS)
Professor David Barnett (Theatre, School of ACT)
Merran Toerien (Reader in Sociology)
Dr Jonathan Green, Department of Environment and Geography
Professor Tomoya Obokata, York Law School
Professor Craig Taylor (History)
Professor Ian Armit, Chair in Archaeology
Victoria Beale, Communications Specialist
Dr Paul Crampton (Hull York Medical School)
Dr Himani Bhakuni, York Law School
Janet Feather-Moore, Associate Lecture, York Law School
Nicholas Dunn-McAfee (PhD Researcher, History of Art and English)
Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi (Lecturer, Centre for Applied Human Rights / York Law School)
Dr Steve Ashby, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Archaeology
Dr Daniel Matore (English)
Armando Gaxiola Lappe (student)
Professor Paul Gready (CAHR)
Dr Hannah Roche (Senior Lecturer, English)
Professor Andrew James (Jamie) Wood
Dr Boriana Alexandrova, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Women's Studies & Department of English & Related Literature
Dr Mark Love-Smith (Lecturer, School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Clare Jackson (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology)
Joe Simpson (Research Assistant)
Dr Fiona Keenan (School of Arts & Creative Technologies)
Catherine Love-Smith (Lecturer, School of Arts & Creative Technologies)
Hayley Saul
Dr Eli Auslender, Politics
Professor TT Arvind, Head of Department, York Law School
Prof. Emma Waterton (Department of Archaeology)
Prof. Kirsty Penkman (Chemistry)
Professor Alex Wade (Psychology)
Professor Mark Jenner, Department of History and Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity
Dr Alessandro Altavilla (Lecturer, School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Dav Smith (Archaeology)
Dr Eva Mol (archaeology)
Dr Nicolas Rennuy (York Law School)
Jonathan Brockbank
Dr Martin Fletcher
Dr Eleanor Brown (Senior Lecturer, Education)
Dr Gareth Crockett, School for Business and Society
Dr Sethina Watson (History and Centre for Medieval Studies)
Dr Lizzy Spencer (Lecturer, History)
Prof. Richard Walsh
Dr Alison Dyke (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Dr Natasha Tanna (Lecturer, English)
Professor Jenny Steele, York Law School
Dr Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera (Lecturer, Computer Science)
Professor Laura Stewart, Head of Department, History
Dr. Dar'ya Guarnera (Lecturer, School of ACT)
Dr Emma Nuding (Associate Lecturer, English)
Dr Chris Hewson (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Joe Saunders, PhD student, History
Nicholas Jackson (Alcuin and James Colleges 1991-1994; BA Mathematics 1994)
Caroline Fairclough (English, York 1964-67)
Dr. Robert Trueman (Philosophy)
Caroline Hunter, York Law School
Wiktoria Tunska (PGR and GTA, Department of English and Related Literature)
Dr Matt Jenkins (Lecturer, Archaeology)
Matthew Campbell
Dr Dan Keith (Senior Lecturer, Politics)
Dr Emily Stevenson (Lecturer, English)
Dr Fionn Toland (CAHR)
Dr Enrico Reuter (Senior Lecturer, School for Business and Society)
Dr Laura Chapman (Environment & Geography)
Professor Gareth Gaskell (Psychology)
Dr Joshua Phillips, alumnus, MA Culture and Thought after 1945, 2014-15
Sarah Wild (Education)
Prof Tom Stoneham (Philosophy HoD)
Dr Guy Schofield
Dr Karen Quigley (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Deborah Russell (English)
Prof Sanju Velani (Mathematics)
Dr John Evemy (Politics)
Dr Anna Bull, Department of Education
Srish Jain
Stefan Weigert (Reader, Mathematics)
Prof. Michael Bate (Maths, Chair BoS)
Nadia Mifka-Profozic
Sam Hill (GTA, Maths)
Dr Stephen Connor (Maths)
Professor Stevi Jackson (Professor Emeritus, Sociology/Women's Studies)
Professor Matthew Ratcliffe (Philosophy)
Professor Chris Fewster (Deputy Head of Department [Research], Mathematics)
Dr Kathryn Wright (Law)
Jeremy Jacob (Computer Science)
Dr Sam Crawford (Maths)
Farzad Fatehi
Adeen Irfan
Dr Rebecca Benzie (Lecturer, School of Arts & Creative Technologies)
Dr Joshua Kirshner (Senior Lecturer, Environment and Geography)
Toni Patynek, Student Administrator in PGRA
Joanna de Groot, Senior Lecturer
Dr Tom Cantrell (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Rich Bingham (Maths & Biology)
Dr Daniel Morgan (Philosophy)
Adrián Villaseñor, Centre for Health Economics
Prof Victor Beresnevich (Mathematics, Head of Section of Pure Maths)
Dr Jon Swords (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Prof John Mateer (Deputy Head of School, ACT)
Berend Visser (GTA in mathematics)
Nicholas Sho Hayes (student)
Dr David Glynn, Research Fellow
Sarah Archer, Deputy Head of York Law School,
Miriam Huntley (current student and previous combined subject student representative)
Dr Simen Bruinsma (Mathematics)
Dr Piyush Dhawankar (Computer Science)
Dr Bryce Stewart (Environment and Geography)
Dr. Steven Wright (Computer Science)
Lauren Working
Ana Duarte, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics
Dr Lucy Sackville (History)
Ewan Murray (PhD Student)
Victor Avila Torres (Fixed-term T&S Lecturer, Sociology)
Dr Hannah Jennings
Adriana Murad Konings, PhD student
Kalli Keramari, Philanthropy Manager, OPPA
Professor Stephanie Wynne-Jones (Archaeology)
Dr Peter Sands (postdoc, English)
Vincenzo Fiorentino
Kelli Kennedy
Dr Ian McIntosh (Senior Lecturer, Mathematics)
Professor Niall MacKay, Department of Mathematics
Dr Kanchon Dasmahapatra (Biology)
Dr Anna Wall, Lecturer in Literature
Professor Emeritus Bernard S. Kay, Department of Mathematics
T Blair
Prof Elva Robinson (Biology)
Emily Thompson (PhD student)
Dr Xun Zhou (Lecturer, Environment & Geography)
Sam Guy (PhD student, York Law School)
Dr. Daniel Jeffares (Department of Biology)
Dr Kyra Piperides (alumni, English)
Thomas Holderness (Spring 2023, Public Administration and Public Policy)
Vanessa Barker (alumnus, English, graduated 2004)
Professor Daniela Barillà (Biology)
Sean Sweeney, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Biology
Dr Julia Ferrari (Department of Biology)
Maurice Dodson, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics Dept
Prof Julie Wilson (Maths)
Dr Clare Bielby, Centre for Women's Studies and Department of English and Related Literature
Dr Rachel Alsop, Centre for Women's Studies
Dr Eleanor McCullough
Umar Toseeb (Education)
Pete Dale
Freya Clarke
Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (English)
Ed van der Molen (alumnus)
International Student Henrique Plihal Ferreira
Dr James Walker, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Michele Campopiano
Dr Caroline Waddington-Jones (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Sam Engleman (GTA, Mathematics)
Andrew Scoones (Mathematics GTA)
Sian Beynon-Jones (Senior Lecturer, Sociology)
Dr Lawrence McNamara (Law)
Chloe Turner, current PhD student and 2022 President of Alcuin College
Dr Konstantin Ilin, Department of Mathematics
Jason Levesley, Snr Lecturer Pure Maths
Dr Emilie Dufresne, Lecturer in Mathematics, chair of EGPC maths
Professor Mary Fairclough, English
Professor Marina Knight (Mathematics)
Hannah McAuliffe (current PhD, English)
Dr Ellie Rye (Lecturer, Language and Linguistic Science)
Lizzie Martin (current MA student)
Zaynab Seedat - PhD student and GTA, Department of English and Related Literature
Dr. Alet Roux, Deputy Head of Department, Mathematics
Ben Powell (Lecturer, Mathematics)
Sabah Salam ( current student )
Professor Vanita Sundaram (Deputy Head of Department, Education)
Dr. Kasia Rejzner, reader in mathematics
Professor Zdzislaw Brzezniak (Department of Mathematics)
Dr Ezra Horbury (English)
Dimitris Tsarapatsanis, Senior Lecturer, York Law School
Victoria Hudson
Dr Kate Brown (School for Business and Society)
Beth Bell (Lecturer, Education)
Asha Abeyasekera (Lecturer, CWS)
Jacob O'Sullivan (GTA/PGR Philosophy)
Paul Walton (Department of Chemistry)
Emily Nicholls, lecturer in Sociology
Dr Simon Mair, Lecturer, Department of Environment and Geography
Dr. Sue Faulds, Reader, Department of Health Sciences
Harkan Kirk-Karakaya (PhD Student)
Nadine Saupe, Lecturer, LLS
Dr Felicia Liu, Lecturer, DEG
Dr Peter Hill (School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology)
Dr Graeme Wilkin (Mathematics)
Dr Eppie Leishman (School for Business and Society)
Dr Patricia Hamilton (Sociology)
Dr Fiona Bate (Maths)
Tim Kirk (Chemistry)
Mikhail Kupriyanov, GTA
Dr Maxine Lamb (Health Sciences)
Louise Shepperd (PhD student, Department of Education)
Antonios Roumpakis, School for Business and Society
Carmen Álvarez-Mayo, Lecturer
John Painter-Blase (Health Sciences)
Hannah Armstrong (GTA, English)
Katy Bennett (PhD student, History)
Roger Colbeck (professor in mathematics)
Dr Andy Pomfret (School of PET)
Dr Matthew Khan (School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology)
Dr Sarah Knowles
Dr. Simon Bale (School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology)
Alan Burns (Computer Science)
Ned Atiyah (Health Sciences)
Thomas Jochum-Critchley (Lecturer in German)
Dr Bill Soden
Rebecca Sheridan
Ben Thomas
Dr Joanna Buryn-Weitzel (Psychology)
Dr Tom Hartley (Psychology)
David Chippett (International Pathway College)
Dr. Richard Douthwaite (Chemistry)
Dr. Kelly R. Redeker
Prof Jane Hill Biology & Assoc. Dean Research (Sciences)
Charlotte Newcombe
Professor Benjamin Poore, School of ACT
Gonzalo Vallejo Fernandez (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology)
Dr Jonathan Fisk (York Law School)
Professor George Tsoulas (Language & Linguistic Science)
Dr Amanda Mason-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health
David Halliday, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
Dr Derek Wann (Deputy Head of Department, Chemistry)
Dr Katherine Smith, Inclusive Learning Team
Dr Amber Yeoman (Chemistry)
Nicola McDonald (Senior Lecturer, English and Related Literature)
Prof. Jim McCambridge (Health Sciences)
James Godwin (Health Sciences)
Chris Elliott (emeritus)
Jesse Machin (PhD Candidate, Politics)
Professor Timothy Spiller, School of PET
Dr Chris Devany, Research Associate
Professor Danijela Trenkic (Education)
John Dawson
Professor Anne-marie Greene, School for Business and Society
Dr Peg Murray-Evans, Department of Politics
Dr Adele Taylor (Health Sciences)
Professor Brendan Keely (Chemistry)
Dr William White
Dr Matthew Archer (Lecturer, Environment and Geography)
Natasha Parker (current student)
Chris Hilton (IPC)
Dr Caroline Casey (School for Business and Society)
Dr Peter Gardner (Lecturer in Sociology)
Dr George Bailey (Lecturer in Language and Linguistic Science)
Dr Catherine Laing
Dr Anne Routledge (Chemistry)
Dr Alicia Maddalena (Associate Lecturer, English)
Dr Leanne Mason
Dr Joe Cutting (Computer Science)
Dr Pierre-Luc Emond (Lecturer, School for Business and Society)
Rhiannon Griffiths (PhD Candidate and GTA, York Law School)
Prof. Roland Kröger (School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology)
Dr Rebecca Woods (Alumna and Associate, Language and Linguistic Science; Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University)
Dr Rachel Pateman (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Dr. Peter Wagner (Lecturer, Dept. of Economics)
Emeritus Professor Graham Hitch (Psychology)
Jessica Gracie (Associate Lecturer, York Law School)
Dr James Cave (SBS)
Prof Rob Marchant (Environment and Geography)
Prof. Maxim Nazarov (Mathematics)
Dr Richard Tutton (Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology)
Dr Kit Colliver (Research Associate, School for Business and Society)
Dr. Maddy Potter
Dr Martin Trefzer (Reader at York)
Tugba Iyigun (Social and Political Sciences)
Dr Gareth Millington (Sociology)
Professor James Chong (Biology)
Professor Jon Pitchford, Biology and Mathematics.
Pavlos Vasilopoulos (Senior Lecturer, Politics)
Professor Matthew Festenstein
Dr Mette Kragh-Furbo (Sociology)
Naomi Pennington, Programme Manager
Eliran Bar-El
Dr Leandro Soares Indrusiak (Reader, Department of Computer Science)
Dr Tobias Kammersgaard (School for Business and Society)
Dr Alison Wallace (Senior Lecturer, School of Business and Society)
Detta Dickinson (External Examiner in pure mathematics)
Joshua Levett (PGR & GTA)
Prof Matt Probert (School of PET)
Jade Gilbourne (PhD student and GTA, Department of Sociology)
Prof. David Beer
Dr Chris Wood (Mathematics)
Dr Paul McGonigal (Chemistry)
Professor Robin Wooffitt (Sociology)
Dr Hugo Service
Prof Lisa Emberson (Environment & Geography)
Dr Pegine Walrad, Department of Biology
Emily Charlton, CWS MA Student
Cindy Withjack (PhD Student and GTA, English)
Oliver Atack (MSc Student in Mathematical Sciences)
Josh Allen (History, Vanbrugh 2010-13)
Beth Sharrock, alumnus, English
Dr Sally Barnden, alumnus, English
Dr Emily Rowe, alumnus, English
Dr Philippa Hellawell, alumnus, History
Deborah Quilgars (Senior Research Fellow, School for Business and Society)
Dr Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow (GTA, History)
Jude Brereton (ACT)
Adam Fusco
Matthew Walton (Research Fellow)
Dr Kevin D. Tennent (Reader, School for Business and Society)
Dr Claire Smith (Senior Lecturer, Politics)
Miriam Bianco (IPC)
Philip Quinlan, (Reader, Psychology)
Morgan Pont (current student)
Professor Allison Green, Hull York Medical School
Alexis Casas - Current Student
Chris Crispin Bailey, Senior Lecturer, UCU Health Safety and Wellbeing Representative.
Woody Kadis-Ross - Current Student
Zoe Golds-Banyard (current Student)
Xiao Ge (PhD in Centre for Women’s Studies & GTA in Sociology Department)
Eli Schofield (current student)
Claudia Thomson
Wei Lu (current student)
Dr Maurice Waddle (Psychology)
Evie Banks (current student)
Nick Gill
Prof Alister Burr, School of PET
Dr Angus Hebenton (Politics)
Annabelle O’Connor (current student)
Nienke van Velzen (Mathematics student)
Dr Natasha Glaisyer (History)
Kitty Clark
Prof Emma Tominey (Economics)
Dr Freya Sierhuis, Senior lecturer, English
Alex Yates, alumnus, MA Social Research
Professor Emeritus Harriet Guest
Rob Andrews, Alumnus
Francisca Fernández Arce, alumnus, 2020, MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture
Dr Jill Murdoch, alumnus, English
Dr Patrycja Buxton, alumnus, Centre for Women’s Studies
Dr Katherine Graham (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Kofi Appiah (Lecturer)
Dr Lynda Dunlop, Department of Education
Dr Elizabeth Elliott, alumnus, CMS
Dr Katie Harrison, History of Art
Dr Christopher Jay (Philosophy)
Dr Matthias Hambach (Lecturer, School for Business and Society)
Prof. Nik Brown (HoD Sociology)
Molli Tyldesley, English Literature Student
Paris Harland - English Lit Student
Peter Simmons, Emeritus Professor, Economics
Professor Oleg Benesch (History)
Heather Taylor (Current Student)
J O'Shea
Dr Nadina Luca, School for Business and Society
Ella Barker, English, PhD student
Marisa Michaud (PhD Student, Centre for Medieval Studies)
Dr Kate Giles, Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology
Francesca Foffano (PhD student & GTA, Computer Science)
Alice Parkington, MA student (Centre for Women’s Studies)
Ethan Purnell (Medieval Studies)
Jessie Summerhayes (Medieval Studies)
Ian Prince
Dr Barnaby Dye, Lecturer
Chris Fuller, Politics 1976 -79
Conaer Wilson-Macpherson (Current Student, Department of Computer Science)
Professor Tracey Hill (alumnus)
Nick Morgan, alumnus, Social Policy
Isabella Edwards (English Undergraduate Student)
Professor Kevin Walsh (Archaeology)
David Jennings (PGR, Archaeology)
Dr. Indrajit Roy, Sr. Lecturer- Politics & Co-director, Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre
Rose Rickford, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Catriona Kemp (Library, Archives and Learning Services)
David Popelka (student)
Professor Dunstan Brown
Josie Rowlands (current English Literature student)
Dr Jo Iacovides (Computer Science)
Dr James A. Clarke
Professor Michael North (Chemistry)
Sam Coe (PhD, English & Related Literature)
Alistair Mansfield, GTA in Maths
Jenn Chubb
Paul Harding
Professor Victoria Gould, Department of Mathematics
Dr Ben Kirman (Senior Lecturer, Arts and Creative Technologies)
Nivedita Kothiyal (School for Business and Society)
Tim Stuart-Buttle, Lecturer in Politics
Clau Nader Jaime (PhD and GTA, School of ACT)
Helen Aadnesgaard (student)
Peter Nightingale (Lecturer, Computer Science)
Laura Fox (Department of Education)
Dr Claire Crawford
Dr Jessica Wormald (Post-doc Research Associate, Language and Linguistic Science)
Prof Keith McKenna
Lu Cooke (Archaeology)
Grace Murray (GTA, Department of English)
Dr. David Zendle (Computer Science)
Professor Harriet Over (Psychology)
Dr Mathilde Peron (Economics)
Joshua D'Arcy, Current PhD Student
Kirsty Whitehead (Library)
Tom Johnston (Hull York Medical School)
Duncan Macquarrie, chemistry
Dr Tom Lubek (Lecturer in Literature)
Christopher Andrew
St.John Gilbert, PhD Student, PET
Martin Philip, Academic Liaison Librarian, Library Archives and Learning Services
Dr Rob Alexander, Senior Lecturer
Dr Terry J Dillon, Dept of Chemistry
Professor Emeritus Andy Marvin. School of Physics Engineering and Technology
Dr Julia Sarju (Chemistry)
Dr Liam Maloney (School of Arts & Creative Technologies)
Kirsty Wilding (GTA)
Dr Katherine Smith
Dr Zoë Irving, School for Business and Society
Dr Aires Ferreira (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology)
Professor Nick Pears (Computer Science)
Maria Elena Garcia Reyes (Senior Lecturer DERS)
Ben Gibb-Reid (GTA and PhD researcher in Language and Linguistic Science)
Dr Cade McCall (Psychology)
Elizabeth Carper
Anthony Tomkins (PhD student English Literature)
Dr Alexander Medcalf
Dr Marina Sawdon (HYMS)
Professor Irene D'Amico (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology)
Norman Yeo (Lecturer, Language & Linguistic Science)
Dr Anna Einarsdóttir (SBS)
Dr Emma Osborne (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology)
Prof. Helena Daffern (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology)
Dr Bridget Foreman (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Hesandi Jayasekara (Undergraduate)
Dr Alasia Nuti (Politics)
Dr. Mary Madden (Health Sciences)
Dr Adam Kelly, alumnus and former employee
Molly Gill, alumnus, English and History
Cat Metcalfe, alumnus, History
Associate Professor Sharae Deckard, (School of English, University College Dublin), external examiner for MA in Culture and Thought at York
Dr Lena Liapi, Department of History
Natasha Anson, alumnus, History 2012-15
Dr Jenna Ng (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Karen Parkhiil (Reader, DEG)
Professor Jacqui Hamilton, Chemistry
Prof Jacco Thijssen (Mathematics)
Oznur Yardimci
Dr Peter Schauer (Associate Lecturer in Digital Archaeology)
Dr Meg Roughley
Esther Okorocha (Current BA Student)
Dr Terry Hathaway (Lecturer, NSC)
Gemma Gibson
Dr Mik Lisowski (archaeology)
Steven Spencer
Fergus McGlynn (IT Services)
Martin Bees, Head of Department, Mathematics
Adam Koper
JT Welsch (English and Related Literature)
Dr WJ Frost (School of Physics, Engineering & Technology)
Sarah Rubery (Assessment Manager)
Dr. James Cubiss, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
Professor Oliver Craig
Dr Daryl Stump (Archaeology and Environment & Geography)
Andy Bartlett
Lizzie Merrill (PhD Researcher in CWS)
Andrew Pickering, Reader in Economics and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)
Judy Page (IPC)
Rachel Harley
Josh Povall (English Undergraduate)
Dr Joel Baker (Humanities Research Centre)
Michelle Alexander (Professor, Archaeology)
Professor Sven Mattys (Psychology)
Dr. Louise LePage (Senior Lecturer, Theatre)
Wendy Cook (IPC)
Dr Sophie Coulombeau (English)
Professor Mariana Lopez, School of Arts and Creative Technologies
S Jemison Maths Tutor
Lewis Ball
Gwendoline Pepper (PhD Student, former GTA Dept. of Archaeology)
Dr Laura Clark (Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology)
Dr Sophie Weeks
Joe Gallagher (Short Courses)
Philip Garnett, Senior Lecturer in Systems and Organisation, School for Business and Society.
Alex Hughes
Glen Taylor, alumnus, English
Dr Kate Loveman, alumnus
Dr Emily Friedman, alumnus, 2005
Naomi Myers, Assessment Manager
Olivia Hudson (English Assessments)
Hattie Presnell, alumnus, CREMS
Gan Chin Lin, alumnus, English
Dr. Ciarán Treacy, alumnus and former postgraduate tutor
Dr Mary Laing
Dr Zoe Baker, Research Fellow (Education)
Dr Jack McNeill (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Janina Hossbach
Simon Eveson
Jenny Brotherton
Emma Hague (Finance)
Professor Andrew Jones, Department of Economics and Related Studies
Dr István Cziegler (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology)
Dr Ruth Patrick, Senior Lecturer, School for Business and Society
Professor Beth Jefferies (Psychology)
Phoebe Martin, Research Associate
Dr Sara van Goozen (Politics)
Professor Nina Caspersen, Head of Department, Politics
Benjamin Gibbs (student)
Bob Doherty (Dean of School for Business and Society)
Dr William Jackson (Economics) and
Dr. Elisabeth Schweiger, Lecturer
Kate Keeble
Dr Susan Forde (Politics)
Dr Alfred Moore, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics
Dr David Dickinson (School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology)
Marieke Wierenga, MA student, Centre for Women's Studies
Dr Jose Ciro Martinez, Politics
Kathryn Asbury, Education
Dr Eva Heims, Senior Lecturer (Politics)
Professor Paul Mitchell
Dr Alex Hall, Director, School of PPE
Dr Silke Goebel (Psychology)
Dr Matthew Pusey (Lecturer, Mathematics)
Madeline Hall (IPC)
Philip Gywn Jones (Eng/Hist, 1984-87)
Robert Strange (English and Politics, 1984-87)
Dr Louise Wilson (alumnus)
Dr. Kook-Hee Gil, Reader in Applied Linguistics, University of Sheffield, External for MA in Education
Ivanna Sanchez, alumnus, 2016
Josh Maughan - Current Student, BSc Psychology in Education Academic Course Rep, YUSU Education Society President & Halifax College President
Paul Noordhof (Anniversary Professor of Philosophy)
Melissa Williams, PhD Student
Dr Eric Hoddy
Dr Sean Thomas (Reader, York Law School)
Sophie Mattholie (current student, History)
Dr Richard Powell (School of Arts & Creative Technologies)
Dr Charles Fonge (Library, Archives and Learning Services)
Prof Andrew Higson
Somkene Madichie (current student)
Yuqing Wang
Dr Tom Collins
Prof Martin Suckling
Dr Ed Garrett (Environment and Geography)
Dr. Christopher Hughes (Department of Mathematics)
Dr Nina Willment (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Alison Eastwood, current member of staff and former student
Dr Andrea Schiavio (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Christoph Dworschak (Politics)
Dr David Huyssen, Eugene Lang College, former faculty member
Sian Wilkinson, BA English 2015-2018, MA Romanticism 2018-2019
Professor Cordelia Beattie, University of Edinburgh, alumnus
Dr Philip Burnett (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Professor Nicky Milner (Head of Archaeology)
Jo Gilham
Dr Emma James (Psychology)
Dr Thomas Davies, Psychology Department
Michelle Hunter (current PhD student)
Aaron Conmee, PPE, Vanbrugh College, 2018-2021
Dr Emily Worthington (Lecturer in Music, School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Dr Kai Tsao (Equality and Diversity Office)
Claire Walsh (Research Innovation & Knowledge Exchange)
Harrison Ridley
Dr Leonardo Lari
Alena Denisova
Matt Johnstone
Hokulani Honda (3rd Year Student)
Dr Philippa Ryan
Ben Catt (Library, Archives and Learning Services)
Dr David Turner (Lifelong Learning/School for Business and Society)
Professor Kevin Farnsworth, School for Business and Society
Dr Gyda Sindre, Senior Lecturer Politics
Christina Buse
Dr Ashley Lingle (lecturer, Archaeology)
Dr Liam Herringshaw, Tutor in Lifelong Learning
Michael Freeman (Lecturer, Computer Science)
Dr Laura Tucker (Research Associate, School for Business and Society)
Dr. Nino Grillo, Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Dr Mark Nicholson (Senior Lecturer Computer Science, Chair BoE)
Prof Calvin Dytham (Biology)
Dr Nuray Aridici (Politics)
Subir Chattopadhyay (DERS)
Dr Karla K Evans
Dr Anna Strhan
Dr Sarah Knight (Psychology)
Nigel Woolsey (School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology)
Callum Deery
Dr Stuart Porter
Professor Emerita Helen Hills
Sally Brabyn
Dr. Anastasia Arabadzhyan
Susy Williams, PhD student, Politics
Simos Gerasimou (Senior Lecturer, Computer Science)
Professor Gweno Williams, Norwegian Study Centre
Dr Steven Thomas (PDRA, YPI)
Dr Amelia Gully, Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Zeynep Dila Oral
Professor Lesley Stewart (Head of Department Centre for Reviews and Dissemination)
Dr Ian Gray, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science
Professor James Woodcock FREng, past HoD Computer Science
Andrea Peinhopf, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Rosie Everett
Dr Matt Lesch (Health Sciences)
Lou Stringer (Student & Academic Services)
Professor Sophie von Stumm, Department of Education
Dr Mark Hutchinson (School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Neil Sorrell
Professor Michael Thornton (Head of Economics)
Nathalie Noret
Macarena Yunge (MA student, Centre for Women's Studies)
Dr Adam S. Green, Lecturer in Sustainability, Department of Archaeology and Department of Environment and Geography
James Driver (1st year politics student)
Professor Eve Roman (Health Sciences)
Dr Saba Joshi, Lecturer, Politics
Professor Sharon Grace (SBS)
Prof Peter Ball (School for Business and Society)
Christopher Arran
Sarah Everett (PhD researcher, Department of Archaeology)
Dr Ian Jones
Laurence Wilson (Senior Lecturer, Physics)
Dr Hyojung Sun
Dr Abi Evans (Lecturer, School of Arts and Creative Technologies)
Vy Nguyen
Ben Yanowitz (MA, Modern History)
Samuel Goggins, current student
Tom Minto
Rose Mckean, PhD Student, English & Related Literature
Professor Tim Howell, Emeritus Professor of Music
Ralph Noble
Anna Hughes, alumnus, Archaeology and Education
Becky Muradás-Taylor Professor of Languages and Linguistics, University of Leeds, External Examiner, MA TESOL
Georgia Lee, alumnus, English
Arthur Farr
Daniel Cramphorn
Ben Reiner (current history student)
Anna Baxter (2nd year Politics students)
Isaac Bettridge
Will Mee
Joe Richards - Current 2nd Year student, Student Ambassador
Dr Sylvia Toet (Senior lecturer, Department of Environment and Geography)
Katie Proctor, current English and Related Literature student
Sophia Ash
Colin Campbell, Emeritus Prof. of Sociology
Dr. Simona Davidescu (Senior Lecturer, Politics)
Dr Catherine Watt (former PhD student)
Mark Paget
Zara-Louise Stubbs (PGR & GTA in English and Related Literature)
Cameron Hollick (1st year chemistry student)
Michael Toner
Kimberley Eronini
Lizzy Holling (Project Manager, StreetLife)
Dr Liz Haddon, ACT
Julie Mariotti (English and Related Literature Undergraduate)
Michael Walker
Dr. Antonio García-Domínguez (Computer Science)
Carlo Ottaviani - Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Tracy Dancer (Computer Science)
Lorianne Hall
Tommy Yuan (Reader in Computer Science)
Miya Treadwell (PhD student)
Jess Bates (Archaeology)
Dr James Parker (GTA History)
Professor Karen Bloor (Health Sciences)
Iain Bate
Aidan Quigley (MA Student)
Dr Majid Latifi (Lecturer, Computer Science)
Bryony Jones
Rebecca Postlethwaite UG Administrator
Oliver Solomon, current student.
Dr Tamsyn Kiss (Environment and Geography)
Nikki Stearman (XR Stories)
Carys Hoile (Current Student)
Atsushi Higuchi (Professor of Mathematics)
Sophie Meekings (Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Psychology Department)
Dr Sam Cobb (Senior Lecturer, Hull York Medical School & Archaeology)
Dylan Thompson
Maisie Relph (Student, BSc Psychology in Education)
Alyssa Linardic (Psychology in Education student)
Dr Yuchen Zhao, Lecturer, Computer Science
Tilly Edney Harrison
Dr Sophie Thompson-Lee (Post-doc, Education)
Sarah Hinds PhD Student (History)
Dr Yuriy Zakharov
Robert Hollingworth (Reader in Music)
Anna Korzeniowska
Freya Keeping (current student)
Atoosa Khatiri, PhD student
Estelle Praet, PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dr Gareth Perry (Technical Specialist in Artefact Studies, Department of Archaeology)
Dean Welbourn
Dr K Brookfield
Emma Bryning
Luis Beltrán (current PhD student)
Dr Jeremy Wells (former Senior Lecturer, Music)
Debra Lashua (Computer Science)
Emily Gaillet (previously Emily Duff), alumnus, English and Language and Linguistic Science
Danielle Turner, alumnus, History
Aisling West (current student)
Mac Brennan (BA International Relations)
Dr Emma Casey, Sociology
Prof Jonathan Finch
Dr Sophie Mackinder (SBS)
Jiaxin Liu (School for Business and Society)
Scott Cairney, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Hannah Goldwyn Simpkins, alumnus
Tom Bonnington, alumnus
Dr Jim Leary Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
Sanna Eriksson (PhD candidate, CWS)
Dr Evgeniy Zorin (Reader, Mathematics)
Professor Michael Cordner, School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Shash Trevett, alumnus, BA 1996, MA 1997
Victoria Noble (PhD Researcher and GTA, Language and Linguistic Science)
Dr David Rippin (Department of Environment and Geography)
Daniel Slawson (RSE, Arts & Creative Technologies)
Bethan Jones, Research Associate SIGN
Taryn Bell
Dr Vasileios Vasilakis, Department of Computer Science
Professor Helen Elsey, HYMS and DoHS
Jamie Chatfield. (BA Sociology, 2015; MA Medical History and Humanities, 2020)
Dr Suzannah V. Evans, alumnus, English
Dr Joe Jackson, incoming external examiner for the MA Culture and Thought After 1945
Charlotte Brace (PGR, Department of English and Related Literature)
Emeritus Professor Tony Sudbery (Mathematics)
Prof Laura Coroneo (Economics)
Dr Kate Lancaster (School of PET)
Sarah Masters, PGR, University of York
Professor Darryl Jones, Trinity College Dublin, alumnus
Dingjia Cao (PhD student and GTA, Mathematics)
Dr Namratha Rao, Lecturer in English
Charles Rhodes (current member of staff in PG admissions team and former UG and PG student at York)
Cixiao Jiang
Zara Sharif, Education Department Rep, Former Derwent JCRC Chair, Former BAME Network Women's Officer
Ying Huang, Alumnus, Centre for Women's Studies
Ace Mackenzie
Lina Soura, Deputy Head of Faculty Operations
Marynka Marquez
Silvia Mantilla-Wright