Skip to content
Neue Gesellschaft für Psychologie

Neue Gesellschaft für Psychologie

Gesellschaft für Theorie und Praxis der Sozialwissenschaften

  • Über die NGfP
    • Zie­le
    • Mit­glied­schaft
    • Koope­ra­tio­nen
    • Sat­zung
  • Vor­stand
  • Kon­takt
  • Kon­gres­se
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2020
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2019
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2018
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2017
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2016
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2015
    • Sym­po­si­um 2014
    • Macht­wir­kung und Glücks­ver­spre­chen (2013)
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2012
      • Call for Papers
      • Klaus-Jür­­gen Bru­der: Mas­sen­loya­li­tät
      • Tagungs­band: Sozi­al­psy­cho­lo­gie des Kapi­ta­lis­mus im Psy­cho­­so­­zi­al-Ver­­lag
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2011
    • NGfP Kon­gress 2008
  • Arbeits­grup­pen
    • AG Psy­cho­ana­ly­se und Gesell­schaft
    • AG Poli­ti­sches Han­deln
    • AG Psy­cho­lo­gien im Dia­log
    • AG Qua­li­ta­ti­ve For­schung
    • AG Open Access
  • Vide­os
  • Impres­sum
  • Daten­schutz
  • Toggle search form

Sus­pen­ti­on of Ian Par­ker

Posted on 8. Oktober 20126. Mai 2017 By Jürgen Günther

Update:

Ian’s uni­on repre­sen­ta­ti­ves at MMU know that public pres­su­re is a real help, but that he must not actively dis­o­bey the ins­truc­tion to keep the disci­pli­na­ry pro­cess ‘pri­va­te and con­fi­den­ti­al’ as the uni­ver­si­ty demand while the inves­ti­ga­ti­on takes place. Apart from the peti­ti­on at http://chn.ge/Q3IV1R , the Times Hig­her Edu­ca­ti­on Sup­ple­ment in the UK has picked up the sto­ry (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421442&c=1), and mes­sa­ges of pro­test are being sent to the Vice-Chan­cell­or John Brooks (john.brooks@mmu.ac.uk) and the Head of the Depart­ment of Psy­cho­lo­gy Chris­ti­ne Hor­rocks (c.horrocks@mmu.ac.uk). The­se mes­sa­ges are being copied as mes­sa­ges of soli­da­ri­ty to the MMU UCU chair Pura Ari­za (p.ariza@mmu.ac.uk) and vice-chair Chris­ti­ne Vié (c.vie@mmu.ac.uk). It is impe­ra­ti­ve, at the same time, to step up sup­port for Chris­ti­ne Vié who has been tar­ge­ted for red­un­dan­cy at MMU (http://www.manchestertuc.org/solidarity/414-christine-vie-victimisation-at-mmu.html).

Dea­rest fri­ends, some­thing incre­di­bly sho­cking has hap­pen­ed. Ian Par­ker has been sus­pen­ded from Man­ches­ter Metro­po­li­tan Uni­ver­si­ty. It has hap­pen­ed sud­den­ly and unex­pec­ted­ly, and stu­dents and staff at the Uni­ver­si­ty have been given litt­le to no expl­ana­ti­on as to why.

Ian was sus­pen­ded from work after having been unable to arran­ge, with bare­ly 18 hours noti­ce, for a uni­on offi­ci­al to come with him to hear a char­ge that the uni­ver­si­ty said amoun­ted to ‘gross pro­fes­sio­nal mis­con­duct’. What this seems to mean is that Ian rai­sed con­cerns within the Uni­ver­si­ty about the pro­blem of sec­re­cy and con­trol in the depart­ment in which he works, and was sus­pen­ded for doing so. Ian has had to lea­ve his office and key, been told not to cont­act Uni­ver­si­ty staff and stu­dents, and his access to his email has been sus­pen­ded. For his stu­dents Ian has sim­ply ‚dis­ap­peared’ over­night, and while he is keen to con­ti­nue super­vi­sing and tea­ching, he is not allo­wed to.

I could never ful­ly express what effect Ian’s sud­den, sho­cking and com­ple­te­ly unju­s­ti­fied sus­pen­si­on might mean for stu­dents at MMU and for the wider inter­na­tio­nal aca­de­mic com­mu­ni­ty. Ian’s sus­pen­si­on is hap­pe­ning against a wider back­drop in the UK whe­re while uni­ver­si­ties are now char­ging stu­dents £9000 a year (and much more for inter­na­tio­nal stu­dents), they are also cut­ting essen­ti­al resour­ces, often mea­ning staff have to work har­der and com­plain less. This means that tho­se staff who defend Uni­ver­si­ty as a space for open and demo­cra­tic deli­be­ra­ti­on are often put under pres­su­re to remain silent. In fact ano­ther mem­ber of staff at MMU (and ano­ther mem­ber of the Uni­ver­si­ty and Col­lege Uni­on- the UCU), Chris­ti­ne Vié, is also being vic­ti­mi­sed, and has been made com­pul­so­ri­ly red­un­dant (and the­re is an ongo­ing cam­paign to defend her).

We are in shock, but only if we speak open­ly tog­e­ther will we be in a posi­ti­on to chall­enge and chan­ge what is hap­pe­ning to all of us. Open­ness and demo­cra­tic deba­te are the hall­marks of good edu­ca­ti­on. Yet sec­re­cy and silen­cing are key issues here. Ian has been silen­ced but his work con­ti­nues to speak. Yes­ter­day I loo­ked at the prin­ci­ple aims of ‘Psy­cho­lo­gy, Poli­tics, Resis­tance’, which Ian hel­ped to set up in 1994 as a net­work of peo­p­le who were pre­pared to oppo­se the abu­si­ve uses and oppres­si­ve con­se­quen­ces of psy­cho­lo­gy, to sup­port indi­vi­du­als to chall­enge explo­ita­ti­on, to deve­lop a coll­ec­ti­ve acti­ve oppo­si­ti­on to oppres­si­on, and to make this a key ele­ment in the edu­ca­ti­on of all psy­cho­lo­gists. So, let’s act tog­e­ther, and fol­low Ian’s exam­p­le, and speak out – tell as many peo­p­le as we can, and come tog­e­ther coll­ec­tively as an inter­na­tio­nal cri­ti­cal com­mu­ni­ty to call upon the manage­ment of MMU to come to a reso­lu­ti­on of this pro­blem and to rein­sta­te Ian.

Mes­sa­ges of pro­test can be sent to the Vice-Chan­cell­or John Brooks (j.brooks@mmu.ac.uk) and the Head of the Depart­ment of Psy­cho­lo­gy Chris­ti­ne Hor­rocks (c.horrocks@mmu.ac.uk). The­se mes­sa­ges can be copied as mes­sa­ges of soli­da­ri­ty to the MMU UCU chair Pura Ari­za (p.ariza@mmu.ac.uk) and it is impe­ra­ti­ve that, at the same time, sup­port should be step­ped up to sup­port Chris­ti­ne Vié (c.vie@mmu.ac.uk).

The post­gra­dua­te stu­dents at MMU are sen­ding a let­ter to the Vice Chan­cell­or, and the­re will be fly­ers and pos­ters put up on cam­pus, and call outs in lec­tures all next week. Plea­se do send let­ters and emails, and tell as many peo­p­le as you can.

We will keep you pos­ted about fur­ther action, and do let us know if you have any ide­as for how we can fight this tog­e­ther (becau­se we can fight this tog­e­ther). Plea­se feel free to email me china.t.mills@gmail.com.

In soli­da­ri­ty,
Chi­na Mills (along­side many of the stu­dents at MMU)

Aktuelles

Beitrags-Navigation

Previous Post: Juli­an Assan­ge – Der Gefan­ge­ne des Zwi­schen­reichs
Next Post: Deut­sche Gesell­schaft für Erzie­hungs­wis­sen­schaft emp­fiehlt: kei­ne Betei­li­gung am CHE Ran­king

Coro­na – Insze­nie­rung einer Kri­se

  • Der Kongressband
  • Corona – Inszenierung einer Krise
  • Bestellen:
  • Sodenkamp & Lenz

Macht

  • Bestellen:
  • westendverlag

Digi­ta­li­sie­rung

  • Bestellen:
  • westendverlag

Krieg nach innen, Krieg nach außen

  • Bestellen:
  • westendverlag

Para­ly­se der Kri­tik

  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Gesell­schaft­li­che Spal­tun­gen

  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Migra­ti­on und Ras­sis­mus

  • Migration und Rassismus
  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Neo­li­be­ra­le Iden­ti­tä­ten

  • Neoliberale Identitäten
  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Krieg um die Köp­fe

  • Der Kongressband
  • Krieg um die Köpfe
  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Macht­wir­kung und Glücks­ver­spre­chen

  • Der Kongressband
  • Machtwirkung und Glücksversprechen
  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Sozi­al­psy­cho­lo­gie des Kapi­ta­lis­mus – heu­te

  • Der Kongressband
  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Macht – Kon­trol­le – Evi­denz

  • Der Kongressband
  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Wider­spre­chen!

  • Der Kongressband
  • Bestellen:
  • Psychosozial-Verlag

Links

  • Journal für Psychoanalyse
  • Open Access

Kate­go­rien

  • Aktuelles (280)
  • Arbeitsgruppen (1)
  • Artikel (2)
  • Bücher (2)
  • Interviews (2)
  • Jour fixe (2)
  • Journal für Psychologie (14)
  • Kongresse (21)
  • News @en (13)
  • NGfP-Stellungnahmen (3)
  • Veranstaltungen Termine (62)
  • Veröffentlichungen (8)
  • Videos (18)

Links

  • Journal für Psychoanalyse
  • Open Access

Suche

Archiv

  • März 2023
  • Februar 2023
  • November 2022
  • September 2022
  • März 2022
  • Februar 2022
  • Dezember 2021
  • Oktober 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • Juli 2021
  • Juni 2021
  • März 2021
  • Februar 2021
  • Januar 2021
  • September 2020
  • Mai 2020
  • April 2020
  • März 2020
  • Februar 2020
  • Januar 2020
  • November 2019
  • Oktober 2019
  • September 2019
  • Juli 2019
  • Juni 2019
  • April 2019
  • März 2019
  • Februar 2019
  • Januar 2019
  • November 2018
  • Juni 2018
  • Mai 2018
  • April 2018
  • März 2018
  • Dezember 2017
  • November 2017
  • Oktober 2017
  • September 2017
  • Juli 2017
  • Juni 2017
  • Mai 2017
  • April 2017
  • Dezember 2016
  • November 2016
  • Oktober 2016
  • September 2016
  • Juli 2016
  • Juni 2016
  • Mai 2016
  • April 2016
  • März 2016
  • Februar 2016
  • Januar 2016
  • Dezember 2015
  • November 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • Juli 2015
  • Mai 2015
  • April 2015
  • Februar 2015
  • Dezember 2014
  • November 2014
  • Oktober 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • Juli 2014
  • Mai 2014
  • April 2014
  • März 2014
  • Januar 2014
  • November 2013
  • Oktober 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • Juli 2013
  • Juni 2013
  • April 2013
  • März 2013
  • Februar 2013
  • Dezember 2012
  • November 2012
  • Oktober 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • Juli 2012
  • Juni 2012
  • Mai 2012
  • März 2012
  • Februar 2012
  • Januar 2012
  • Dezember 2011
  • November 2011
  • Oktober 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • Juni 2011
  • Mai 2011
  • März 2011
  • Februar 2011
  • Januar 2011
  • Dezember 2010
  • November 2010
  • Oktober 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • Juli 2010
  • Juni 2010
  • Mai 2010
  • März 2010
  • Februar 2010
  • Januar 2010
  • Dezember 2009
  • November 2009
  • Oktober 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • Juli 2009
  • Juni 2009
  • Mai 2009
  • April 2009
  • März 2009
  • Februar 2009

Copyright © 2023 Neue Gesellschaft für Psychologie

Powered by PressBook Masonry Blogs