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Breaking news – No redundancies at the University of Dundee

Today our interim Principal, Prof Nigel Seaton, was interviewed by STV and stated there would be no compulsory redundancies at the University of Dundee. Thank you to everyone who has helped and supported the branch and all of our members achieve this historic victory.

We look forward to receiving a formal notification of the removal of Section 188 and the cancelling of the redundancy process targeting staff in the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science and Educational Assistive Technology areas.

Fighting for the rights of staff at the University of Dundee

Welcome to the website of the Dundee University and College University (DUCU) branch at the University of Dundee. Here you’ll find information on our current activities, including our dispute with the University and our efforts to save jobs.

In June 2025, we continue to ask the University Executive Group and Court to rule out redundancies by the removal of the legally required Section 188 notice, and to stop redundancies targeting staff in the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science and Educational Assistive Technology areas.

Contribute to the Dundee UCU Fighting Fund

Please email ducu@dundee.ac.uk to find out how you can support DUCU members on strike.

We thank the following UCU branches for the solidarity and support:

Liverpool, UCL, Liverpool John Moores, Heriot Watt, Oxford, Aberdeen, St Andrews, Glasgow, Reading, York St John, North West Region, Ulster, Royal Holloway.

Stand with us!
Email us your messages of solidarity, support, and action.
University of Dundee: Can a Phoenix Rise from the Ashes?

Please find here the link to the unedited opinion piece by Dr Carlo Morelli on the DUCU’s plan to get the university back on track. A version of this piece was published in The Courier.

Read the Op Ed by Prof. Angela Daly (DUCU Honorary Secretary), published in The Courier, on why she and countless other Dundee staff are going on strike.

You can also find here the text of the resolution passed by Dundee City Council on 21 April 2025 on the crisis of management at the University.

Contact us

Administrator: Qingzhong LIANG

Email: DUCU@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: 01382 388817

DUCU Office, Room 1.08a, 15/16 Springfield
University of Dundee

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