Julie Bindel is ‘journalist-in-residence’ at Brunel University

Swayne O’Pie and I are looking forward to meeting and debating with Julie Bindel and Cindy Gallop next Friday evening, at Durham University. Our thanks to C for pointing us to a piece about Ms Bindel being the current ‘journalist-in-residence’ at Brunel University. She’s joined the ‘Journalism team’:

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/news-items/ne_330620

Brunel University is, notoriously, the university at which female postgraduate engineering students are eligible for an additional £15,000 p.a. grant on account of their gender alone:

http://j4mb.org.uk/2014/01/13/brunel-university-an-update-on-a-scandalous-story/

We’ll ask Ms Bindel what she things about this grant next Friday. In the meantime we thought we’d ask Sarah Niblock, Professor and Head of Journalism at Brunel University, what she thinks of the grant. Her university profile page is here:

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/arts/journalism/staff/sarah-niblock

Along with policemen, professors are clearly getting younger with each passing year.

We’ve just sent an email to Ms Niblock sarah.niblock@brunel.ac.uk about the grant, and asked:

Do you support this move? And if so, could you explain to me why this country specifically needs more female engineers?

Surely a Professor and Head of Journalism won’t struggle to respond to our perfectly simple questions?

Greg Canning

looking forward to it , I hope it will be recorded/ broadcast?
- mikebuchanan1957
  
  Hi Greg. Checking out the video side now. Fingers crossed.
nrjnigel

One would have thought students would be interested in Ms Bindel’s university’s sexist policy. Higher education is the summit of a system that has demonstrated itself as unable to properly educate significant numbers of males with the outcome that males are underrepresented at university. Perhaps it’s because Brunel is one of the handful of Universities with more men, 53per cent, hardly overwhelming. Perhaps not surprising given its engineering history. It seems this might have prompted such a desperate measure. Interesting that the vast majority of Unis., with more women, some with over 70 percent women, aren’t so determined to attract male students.
http://www.studentbeans.com/student101/a/Universities/universities-with-the-most-girls-per-guy2495.html
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Julie Bindel is ‘journalist-in-residence’ at Brunel University

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