Saving the Staff Common Room at UCL Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/saving-the-staff-common-room-at-ucl.html Online petition signatures en-us Wed, 8 Apr 2026 10:02 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mrs Janet Bailey [Signature #1179] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10699804?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:25:34 UTC 10699804 Dr Richard Marsh [Signature #1178] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10699793?utm_medium=rss Please reconsider

]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:23:45 UTC 10699793 Dr Nick Nicolau [Signature #1177] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10699773?utm_medium=rss Shocking, this is part of the Bentham ethos. This shouldn't even be a consideration!!

]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:19:19 UTC 10699773 miss Elinor Bailey [Signature #1176] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10699755?utm_medium=rss I use and enjoy the Housman Room on a weekly basis and urge UCL to reconsider. The location is particularly conveient for staff at UCL.

]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:15:57 UTC 10699755 Dr Hynek Pikhart [Signature #1175] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10699697?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:04:29 UTC 10699697 Dr Dafydd Griffiths [Signature #1174] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10699380?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:14:32 UTC 10699380 Ms Rhonda Oliver [Signature #1173] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10698726?utm_medium=rss The Houseman Room provides a convenient central London venue for UCL staff to meet with business contacts, editors etc.

]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:11:44 UTC 10698726 Professor Ursula Mittwoch [Signature #1172] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10698468?utm_medium=rss The ability to engage in scholarly conversations with colleagues on an informal basis is the most essential in a University, and one that is unique to the Housman Room, with its high ceilings and excellent acoustics.

Administrators, as well as younger academic colleagues, need to remember that not everybody has perfect hearing ability. A change of usage of the Housman Room will lead to a diminution of scholarship at UCL.

]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:09:48 UTC 10698468 Professor Ann Varley [Signature #1171] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10697940?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:57:32 UTC 10697940 Prof Emeritus Brian Davies [Signature #1170] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10697700?utm_medium=rss A key feature of UCL is its multiple disciplines.
A key feature of the SCR is to encourage collaboration between these disciplines

]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:56:39 UTC 10697700 Mr Philip Bowman [Signature #1169] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10697691?utm_medium=rss For me this room is an invaluable place to work, since I have no place at all to lay out any documents at all on my very crowded desk. In addition, due to lack of any suitable space in my department, any work that requires collaborative discussions must be carried out in this space.

]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:55:06 UTC 10697691 Dr Rachel Leeson [Signature #1168] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10697506?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:12:07 UTC 10697506 Dr Richard Macphail [Signature #1167] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10697501?utm_medium=rss Where else can I take my visitors and chat with colleagues on special occasions. UCL is downgraded without it cf. other institututions worldwide.

]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:10:30 UTC 10697501 Dr Lazaros Foukas [Signature #1166] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10696261?utm_medium=rss I visit the Housman room often with academic visitors from other universities. They all express admiration for the room. The Housman room adds to UCL’s prestige.

]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:06:29 UTC 10696261 Dr Anonymous [Signature #1165] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10695657?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:40:37 UTC 10695657 Dr Elizabeth Graham [Signature #1164] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10695017?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:09:30 UTC 10695017 Mr Adam Sykulski [Signature #1163] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10694307?utm_medium=rss Fantastic facility

]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:52:49 UTC 10694307 Dr Tom Lundskær-Nielsen [Signature #1162] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10693920?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:40:34 UTC 10693920 Mr Simon Patterson [Signature #1161] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10693545?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:36:51 UTC 10693545 Mr Nicholas Hayes [Signature #1160] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10693077?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:29:42 UTC 10693077 Ms Libby Sheldon [Signature #1159] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692675?utm_medium=rss the Senior Common Room in the Houseman provides exactly the space for interdisciplinary social and informal, working encounters. It is what is expected of a Global University, and allows those of us belonging to UCL to meet and entertain international scholars with pride.
It is extraordinarily short sighted to think of making it a peripheral, less accessible space.

]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:50:55 UTC 10692675 Dr Ivan Wall [Signature #1158] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692582?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:31:20 UTC 10692582 colin hopper [Signature #1157] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692525?utm_medium=rss This facility is invaluable and the alternative quite unacceptable.

]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:19:08 UTC 10692525 Dr Rhian Walther [Signature #1156] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692510?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:16:15 UTC 10692510 Dr. Filipa Wunderlich [Signature #1155] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692325?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:43:09 UTC 10692325 Cristina Azevedo [Signature #1154] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692272?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:33:04 UTC 10692272 Professor Gareth Jones [Signature #1153] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692266?utm_medium=rss Not just a meeting place for UCL academics. For me it is THE location for meeting UCL and other local Institution staff for a relaxed discussion of research and planning future joint ventures.

]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:32:09 UTC 10692266 Dr Lucy Side [Signature #1152] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692238?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:27:51 UTC 10692238 Prof Mark Marsh [Signature #1151] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692140?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:05:59 UTC 10692140 Dr Simon Turner [Signature #1150] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692132?utm_medium=rss Invaluable for informal discussions with colleagues. There are not enough conversations with colleagues nowadays due to work and life pressures. I think its great, a lofty oasis of calm

]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:04:37 UTC 10692132 Dr Stephen Nurrish [Signature #1149] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692031?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:44:52 UTC 10692031 Ms Claire Hebblethwaite [Signature #1148] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10692006?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:39:52 UTC 10692006 Prof Ted Johnson [Signature #1147] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10691827?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:01:59 UTC 10691827 Greta Rait [Signature #1146] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10691806?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:58:06 UTC 10691806 Dr Willem Smelik [Signature #1145] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10690078?utm_medium=rss The common room is too central a feature to colleagues to let it fall victim to plans, however good otherwise, which result in a deterioration of its function.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:53:02 UTC 10690078 Professor Aubrey Sheiham [Signature #1144] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10689323?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:42:57 UTC 10689323 Dr Stephanie Jouvel [Signature #1143] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10688707?utm_medium=rss Please, keep it. It is so nice to come there and relax or read a paper or have a quiet conversation work related or not. There is nothing like it anywhere in London or even in other countries. This in one of the most relaxing place i have been to in my life and i travel a lot. Nothing is quite like it. I think most of it is the space that it has between the furniture and the atmosphere of tranquility and calm that we feel when we go through the Housman room doors. And this is also so english !!

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:16:11 UTC 10688707 Prof Izzat Darwazeh [Signature #1142] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10688278?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:41:34 UTC 10688278 Dr David Gregory [Signature #1141] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10688168?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:20:26 UTC 10688168 Prof David Shima [Signature #1140] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10688156?utm_medium=rss Save Housman

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:19:10 UTC 10688156 Dr Mark Hewitson [Signature #1139] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10688028?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:56:06 UTC 10688028 Prof Alexander Sobolev [Signature #1138] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10688009?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:52:22 UTC 10688009 Dr Adam Wojcik [Signature #1137] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10687941?utm_medium=rss Surely we should see and be happy with the alternative venue before standing aside? It is a venue that reflects UCL's heritage and standing as a premier academic institute.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:41:11 UTC 10687941 Dr Ian Scott [Signature #1136] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10687848?utm_medium=rss The Housman Room has been an excellent setting for UCL Grand Challenges and Research Frontiers cross-disciplinary meetings. I strongly believe that the atmosphere there, including the proportions of the room, its furnishings, pictures and general buzz of conversation, helps to generate free and creative discussion of a kind that is less easily facilitated by more formal or constrained settings. I have really appreciated my membership of the ASCR both professionally and personally in the Housman.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:24:56 UTC 10687848 Mike Hoare [Signature #1135] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10687753?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:06:04 UTC 10687753 Dr Ruth Bell [Signature #1134] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10687459?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:29:05 UTC 10687459 dr silvia zane [Signature #1133] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10687408?utm_medium=rss It would be a huge loss for ucl staff and their guests to lose the HR: it is part of the UCL heritage, I am strongly support the petition.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:23:58 UTC 10687408 Dr Nick Grindle [Signature #1132] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10687281?utm_medium=rss It's a great facility, a unique art collection too, and above all, it's central.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:08:22 UTC 10687281 James Sinclair-Knopp [Signature #1131] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10687148?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:53:17 UTC 10687148 Prof Dario Alfe` [Signature #1130] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686763?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:05:31 UTC 10686763 Ms Julie Noren [Signature #1129] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686660?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:53:40 UTC 10686660 Prof Mark Maslin [Signature #1128] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686617?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:48:04 UTC 10686617 Dr Paul Densham [Signature #1127] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686581?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:44:16 UTC 10686581 Prof Graham Dunn [Signature #1126] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686315?utm_medium=rss Any "manager" who does not understand that this is an ESSENTIAL facility for the efficient running of the university should seek another job.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:12:44 UTC 10686315 Marion Lamb [Signature #1125] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686291?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:10:43 UTC 10686291 Dr David Atkinson [Signature #1124] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686250?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:06:11 UTC 10686250 Sara Wilcox [Signature #1123] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686185?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:56:29 UTC 10686185 Dr John McKenzie [Signature #1122] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686107?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:46:53 UTC 10686107 Ms Julie Bertrand [Signature #1121] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686060?utm_medium=rss UCL academic staff needs this place !!!

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:38:51 UTC 10686060 Mr Paul Amies [Signature #1120] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10686035?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:34:39 UTC 10686035 Dr Helen Beer [Signature #1119] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685967?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:24:57 UTC 10685967 Dr John Addison [Signature #1118] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685963?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:24:20 UTC 10685963 Dr Hiro Yamano [Signature #1117] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685912?utm_medium=rss I use this room to discuss the data within UCL scientists and that is often the moment of new collaboration. Very peaceful environment and it is vital to stimulate not only scientific activities but also social activities within UCL.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:14:05 UTC 10685912 Dr Jan Boehm [Signature #1116] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685905?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:13:02 UTC 10685905 Prof Alan Boyde [Signature #1115] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685893?utm_medium=rss I am an Emeritus member of UCL and a member of the Natural Science Club since 1968. The SCR is at the very core of the concept of UCL as a College, and without it, it will no longer merit the use of the words 'University' or 'College'. No member of 'administration' could be expected to uderstand its value, so they should be advised by those who do. Never let the SCR be further eroded.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:10:37 UTC 10685893 Dr John Jones [Signature #1114] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685875?utm_medium=rss A large and easily accessible common room to encourage multidisciplinary discussion is essential for the continuing academic vitality of UCL. Emails and departmental coffee clubs are not enough. My academic visitors over the years have always been greatly impressed by the ease with which staff from wide-ranging departments can communicate in its elegant surroundings.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:06:34 UTC 10685875 Prof Izzat Darwazeh [Signature #1113] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685797?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:54:29 UTC 10685797 Dr F. Anibal Fernandez [Signature #1112] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685774?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:51:12 UTC 10685774 Dr Dan Brett [Signature #1111] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685764?utm_medium=rss Mad to get rid of something like this -once lost, you will not get it back

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:49:57 UTC 10685764 Dr Dorothy Duffy [Signature #1110] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685736?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:45:17 UTC 10685736 Dr Bill Tuck [Signature #1109] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685683?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:37:36 UTC 10685683 Professor Michael Gilbey [Signature #1108] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685671?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:36:27 UTC 10685671 Dr Claudio De Magalhaes [Signature #1107] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685669?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:36:24 UTC 10685669 Hon. Prof. Neal Ascherson [Signature #1106] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685660?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:34:48 UTC 10685660 Arnold Pizzey [Signature #1105] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685657?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:34:01 UTC 10685657 Prof Philippa Talmud [Signature #1104] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685635?utm_medium=rss The Houseman Room is central to the social and academic interactions of UCL staff. Having it central to all the Depts is vital for the lively interaction of staff.
Taking away this facility would be shortsighted and detrimental to academic life at UCL.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:28:57 UTC 10685635 Dr David Schroeder [Signature #1103] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685629?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:27:56 UTC 10685629 Wendy Kirk [Signature #1102] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685619?utm_medium=rss I believe that a common room of equivalent size and purpose to the Housman Room would be an acceptable solution to the issue.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:25:45 UTC 10685619 Elanor Lewis-Holmes [Signature #1101] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685616?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:25:20 UTC 10685616 Ms Susan Anderson [Signature #1100] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685602?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:22:09 UTC 10685602 robin Hirsch [Signature #1099] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685590?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:20:25 UTC 10685590 Mr David Fellows [Signature #1098] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685582?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:20:00 UTC 10685582 Dr Bruno Silva [Signature #1097] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685580?utm_medium=rss I entirely subscribe to the petition and the following statement:

"[the Houseman room] is the place where the biologist can meet a physicist or a lawyer, a member of the English Department can meet a mathematician and a historian can meet an engineer or a geneticist – and where academic staff of all disciplines can meet administrators from across the university. This ability to meet has spawned collaborations that would never have happened without it."

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:19:36 UTC 10685580 Ms Brigitte Picot [Signature #1096] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685575?utm_medium=rss My experience over almost 20 years at UCL is that the ASCR makes a positive contribution to the working environment of many academics in this institution. It also fosters collaboration between academic staff and senior administrators. It would be a significant loss whose consequences would be felt in many insidious ways long after the benefits of this change have been forgotten.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:19:12 UTC 10685575 Mr Bobbie Osborn [Signature #1095] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685562?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:17:52 UTC 10685562 Dr Alex Côté [Signature #1094] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685560?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:17:40 UTC 10685560 Dr Luciano Rila [Signature #1093] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685529?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:13:55 UTC 10685529 Mr Alastair Knowles [Signature #1092] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685524?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:13:05 UTC 10685524 Mrs Lee Jenner [Signature #1091] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685523?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:12:59 UTC 10685523 Dr Reynir Eggertsson [Signature #1090] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685521?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:12:54 UTC 10685521 Professor Vincent Emery [Signature #1089] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685514?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:11:52 UTC 10685514 Dr Rohan de Silva [Signature #1088] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685513?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:11:45 UTC 10685513 Professor Brian Hutton [Signature #1087] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685497?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:10:19 UTC 10685497 Dr Tao Cheng [Signature #1086] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685495?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:10:10 UTC 10685495 Dr Bill Sillar [Signature #1085] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685492?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:09:54 UTC 10685492 Dr Martin Austwick [Signature #1084] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685488?utm_medium=rss This space is essential - and should be broadened out to support staff and PhD students to meet - which will foster even more collaboration.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:09:21 UTC 10685488 Dr Timo Betcke [Signature #1083] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685481?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:08:20 UTC 10685481 Dr Julian Thompson [Signature #1082] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685479?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:08:13 UTC 10685479 Sarah Snyder [Signature #1081] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685478?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:08:11 UTC 10685478 Dr Alexandre Lewalle [Signature #1080] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10685476?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:07:56 UTC 10685476