{"id":7994,"date":"2021-11-04T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T08:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2021-11-04T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T08:55:22","slug":"sussex-staff-and-students-stand-diminished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/11\/04\/sussex-staff-and-students-stand-diminished\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex staff and students stand diminished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a sad reflection on the state of higher education in the UK that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/28\/sussex-professor-kathleen-stock-resigns-after-transgender-rights-row\">Kathleen Stock<\/a> felt unable to continue to work at the University of Sussex after being accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QX-MAI6m--4&amp;t=1s\">speaking the truth<\/a>\u00a0about biology and upholding enlightenment values. \u00a0The best of the university has clearly left it.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many of the HE institutions across the UK will have the courage to offer her a post as visiting professor. \u00a0I'm doing what little I can; I'm buying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/jul\/18\/trans-by-helen-joyce-material-girls-by-kathleen-stock-reviews\">her book,<\/a>\u00a0having already read <em>Trans<\/em> by Helen Joyce. \u00a0Happily I am having to wait for a new print run owing to demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a sad reflection on the state of higher education in the UK that Kathleen Stock felt unable to continue to work at the University of Sussex after being accused of speaking the truth\u00a0about biology and upholding enlightenment values. \u00a0The...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}