The Cambridge Whistleblowing Saga

This is an update concerning the Employment tribunal I mentioned a couple of weeks ago.

The claimant in the case is Professor Wyn Evans of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. Now that he has finished given evidence, it is now possible to release some of the background publicly. You can read a summary here. If you follow that link you will see reference to this guest post, published on this blog in late 2022:

Guest Post: The Bullying of Hannelore

That old post was carefully anonymised for legal reasons, but it can now be revealed that the Department concerned is, nor surprisingly given the affiliation of the claimant, the Intitute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.

I will refrain from commenting further as the case is ongoing, but you can follow updates here. There is also piece about the case in the Guardian here.

P.S. Yes, it has taken a very long time for the matter to reach a head.

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2 Responses to “The Cambridge Whistleblowing Saga”

Em Ail Says:
June 18, 2026 at 5:00 pm

Yet despite my repeated flagging about staff behaviour in physics in Maynooth, nothing has happened. A PhD student should never be coming out of meetings with their supervisor in tears. It happened repeatedly. Another PhD student went as far as making up hospital appointments to avoid the same supervisor. Nothing happened.

Another staff member was pulled up for getting his students to write the assignments for him 10 years ago. Neither of them completed their PhDs. He got promoted instead. Yet when reported for doing the same thing this semester the student reporting was “encouraged” to amend the GSF2 form to remove any reference to him.

I’m down to close to 60kg. I’m not sleeping. When will anyone take a stand?

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telescoper Says:
June 18, 2026 at 5:13 pm

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