Academics For Academic Freedom

Academics for Academic Freedom is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. AFAF was launched in mid 2007. 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 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
• 315. Sean Bell MA in Journalism and Society at the University of East London
• 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.

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