I look at the rush to hire this year from institutions—and a sector—that have done nothing to train people in this field & a few years ago prob would’ve laughed at idea that this was a field. I cannot impress upon y’all enough that the work will not be done after the one hire. https://twitter.com/nicholasguyatt/status/1359581317189537794

(And from personal experience as well as some standard advice from the US context: retaining people is almost more important than hiring people, and UKHE probably cannot even conceive of retention as a thing to aim for.)

As a start, I’d suggest that UK institutions think more critically about adopting the US practice of easing early-career lecturers into service work while they’re trying to get their research up and running and are teaching modules for the first time.

Teaching modules in Black British history often involves a much wider range of fields than is typical for modern British history modules. Early career lecturers will be less able to draw on the modules/lectures/expertise of other colleagues, since y’all have ignored this field.