How to Get Involved

We recognise that many individuals may wish to support our aims by private actions without wishing to be publicly identified. We invite you to join our supporters. Supporters receive our regula newsletter by email and receive occassional emails giving details of uregent developments and of ways to support our activites. We do not not disclose the names of our supporters to anyone outside BRICUP or share them with any other organisation.

- All of us began as junior, untenured colleagues, and in the current climate in UK institutions we recognise that not everyone can put their heads above the parapet, but many may still be prepared to take a quiet stand.

Support BRICUP financially

As the pace of boycott activity increases we need your financial support. We need funds to support visiting speakers, book rooms for public meetings, print leaflets and pay the whole range of expenses that an ever busier campaign demands.

You can make a one off donation

• by sending a cheque to the Treasurer, at BRICUP, BM BRICUP, London, WC1N 3XX, UK
• by making a bank transfer to BRICUP
  Sort Code 08-92-99
  Account Number 65156591
  IBAN = GB20 CPBK 0892 9965 1565 91
  BIC = CPBK GB22

Like all organisations, while we welcome one off donations, we can plan our work better if people pledge regular payments by standing order. You can download a standing order form.

If you need more details contact treasurer@bricup.org.uk.

Guidance - Teaching staff responsibility when discussing boycotts.

The Equality Challenge Unit of Universities UK and the Standing Conference of Principals, following input from AUT,NATFHE and the NUS has issued the following guidance.

They cite a hypothetical example as follows:

"LAWFUL SPEECH" Example

During a lecture on the history of Kashmir, an academic expresses strong opinions on the state of India. His remarks are felt to be offensive and insulting by some Indian students present, who make a complaint of harassment.

"The lecturer is also involved in a boycott of Indian institutions because of India's role in Kashmir and a campaign is mounted against him on the basis that it is indirectly discriminatory....In the second part of the example, an academic boycott of Indian institutions associated with the government and the state is of itself unlikely to constitute discrimination or harassment on grounds of race or national origin, unless the way that it is conducted or the way that the underlying views are expressed genuinely creates a hostile environment for individuals of Indian nationality (or, depending on the precise circumstances, the Hindu faith). An academic has the right to choose not to associate with public instruments of a particular regime."

"The legality of an academic boycott of institutions must be distinguished from taking adverse decisions against individuals because of their race or nationality. The latter would obviously be discriminatory and the specific wording of any boycott would have to be examined in close detail."

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