Jo Grady

Jo Grady is the General Secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom. She was elected in 2019 after working in higher education at the universities of Leicester and Sheffield and serving for most of her career as a branch rep and officer.
This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .
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