Academics For Academic Freedom

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Academics for Academic Freedom is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. AFAF was launched in mid 2007. [1] Two of its UK speakers, Stuart Derbyshire and Dennis Hayes have written for other LM network entities. Early signatories to its statement included a high proportion of associates of the LM network. For example, at least five of the first ten and fifteen of the first sixty five signatories were associates[2] A partial list of LM associates who have signed the statement is set out below.

  • 1. Professor Dennis Hayes Professor of Education, University of Derby
  • 2. Professor Gavin Poynter University of East London
  • 5. Professor James Woudhuysen De Montfort University
  • 6. Dr Helen Reece Reader in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • 9. Dr Stuart Derbyshire ‘Rigorous discussion is the only road to truth’. Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Birmingham
  • 13. Dr Shirley Lawes Institute of Education, University of Kent
  • 14. Professor Frank Furedi University of Kent
  • 17. Dr Chris Gilligan, University of Ulster
  • 21. David Bowden University of Exeter
  • 25. Colin Searls Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) Faculty of Art. University of Plymouth
  • 30. Wendy Earle PhD student, Institute of Education, University of London
  • 32. Philip Cunliffe King's College London
  • 36 Mario Grasso DPhil Sociology, University Of Oxford
  • 39. Dr Philip Hammond Reader in Arts, Media & English London South Bank University
  • 40. James Panton Lecturer in Politics St John's College, Oxford Co-founder and Campaigns Director, The Manifesto Club (www.manifestoclub.com)
  • 41. Dr Ellie Lee University of Kent ”One of the most important things students can learn at University is how to argue and debate. Campus life seems to now almost entirely lack a culture of debate and argument however. As university teachers, we need to play a part in re-invigorating campuses, and get away from the dull and boring definition of what we do as ‘transferring skills’.”
  • 43. Alan Hudson Director, Leadership Programmes for China University Lecturer University of Oxford
  • 59. Kathryn Ecclestone Professor of Post-Compulsory Education, Oxford Brookes University
  • 65. Dr William Durodie Cranfield University
  • 108. Alex Standish Senior Research Fellow St Chad's College, Durham University
  • 212. Dr Jim Butcher Canterbury Christ Church University
  • 221. Kevin Yuill Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Sunderland
  • 230. Munira Mirza PHD student, University of Kent
  • 231. Dr Ken McLaughlin Manchester Metropolitan University
  • 234. Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen Reader, Department of Geography, Hull University
  • 256. Dr Alex Standish Western Connecticut State University
  • 311. Professor John Fitzpatrick Director Kent Law Clinic University of Kent, Canterbury
  • 313. Sara Hinchliffe, University of Sussex
  • 314. Dr Tiffany Jenkins post grad University of Kent at Canterbury
  • 320. James Heartfield University of Westminster
  • 321. Dominic Standish University of Kansas/CIMBA Adjunct Professor CIMBA campus in Asolo Italy
  • 328. Dr Helene Guldberg Open University
  • 349. Claire Fox Director Institute of Ideas
  • 354. Patrick Hayes Henley Management Centre
  • 373. Alex Hochuli London School of Economics
  • 405. Dr Cheryl Hudson Rothermere Institute, University of Oxford & Vanderbilt University
  • 411. Michele Ledda Leeds University Aluumnus
  • 430. Kenan Malik Author and Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Surrey


AFAF campaigns for the "Right to Offend" and opposes the No Platform for Racists and Fascists policy. [3]

Its campaigns are promoted in other LM entities such as the Battle of Ideas and Spiked.

An offshoot is Student Academics For Academic Freedom.

Contact

Website: AFAF
Facebook: AFAF

Notes

  1. "AFAF Media Coverage", AFAF website, accessed 31 Oct 2010
  2. Signatories 1-100 About Us, AFAF website, accessed 4 November 2010
  3. "AFAF Media Coverage", AFAF website, accessed 8 May 2010