PGRs Against Low Pay open letter

Postgraduate researchers (PGRs) have struggled through the pandemic with low-to-no income and the cost-of-living crisis is making postgraduate research even more inaccessible. PGR members of UCU are saying enough is enough and have started a grassroots campaign to demand a pay rise and package of financial support from UKRI and other bodies.

PGRs Against Low Pay campaigners have launched an open letter that articulates their easily affordable demands. The letter has already attracted a huge wave of signatures, but campaigners need you and every other UCU member to get behind them. They are asking that you sign and share this letter, whether you are a PGR or an ally expressing solidarity.

You can read the open letter here and sign it via this form. Please circulate this request to colleagues via departmental and other PGR mailing lists. 

If you are interested in getting involved with PGRs Against Low Pay then please contact Alex Kirby-Reynolds and Eleanor Munro.