HeyJaredOn being a professional academic in an anti-intellectual age
Highly personal and slighty ranty take on working in universities in the UK
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Research governance, research ethics, and conflicts of interest (opens the original)
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This is the fourth post in a series about a research project funded by the Open University. For those who have not followed, here is a brief summary. In July I discovered that the OU’s Faculty of Business and Law had funded through its Seedcorn scheme a project titled “Exploring the Lived Experiences of Trans and Non-binary Witnesses and Individual Respondents Involved in Protected Belief Employment Tribunals in the UK.” The principal investigator is Professor Jo Brewis and the co-investigator i
Update to the update on The Open University's research project into the world wide transphobia conspiracy as made obvious in Employment Tribunals: STOP PRESS (opens the original)
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Interesting and fun fact I discovered today…..The chair of the research ethics committee that (I think) was responsible for signing off the research ethics application of Dr Downes and Prof Brewis was none other than Alison Fox. For those that do not remember (as I do) the 368 signatories to the open letter calling for my then employer to discriminate against me on the basis of my GC belief, Alison Fox was indeed one of them. So, the quick recap of where we are….2 of the key people in perpetuati
Update to The Open University’s attempt to research the world wide conspiracy of transphobia as evidence in the employment tribunal system (opens the original)
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In my previous post I set out what a publicly available Data Management Plan revealed about an Open University-funded research project, its researchers, and the conflict of interest that I believed had not been declared. As I noted in that post, I wrote to the VC and I submitted a Freedom of Information request. This short post is an account of what has happened. The FOI responseOn 20 August 2026 the Open University responded to my Freedom of Information request. The respo
Thoughts on The Open University's attempt to research the world wide conspiracy of organised transphobia evidenced in the employment tribunal system (opens the original)
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SEX: One Woman's War (opens the original)
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It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that, ahead of schedule, Sex: One Woman's War by Jo Phoenix and Pat Carlen is now available to buy.The book has been described as "narrative sociology at its best". It is part memoir, part sociology. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand a little more about the gender wars in the 21st century as well as about the working environment in UK universities today. Order one of the first 100 paperback copies and receive a personally signed, n
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