The Toolkit for Vital Visibility is a proposal and invitation to bring about a support system, energy, and visibility to workers in higher education without permanent, secure employment.

Being a worker in a UK university without a permanent contract is very common: 46% of teaching-only staff are employed on fixed-term contracts and 40% on hourly paid contracts (UCU, 2020).

The Toolkit for Vital Visibility suggests a series of daily 10-minute group exercises intended to happen during lunch breaks in the hope that precarious staff members of the university can come together to: form a community, build energy for themselves and as a group both in and out of work, and create visibility of the huge issue of precarity in higher education. Permanent staff and students are also invited to join.

The toolkit is available as a 12-page A5 2-colour risograph printed booklet (with pull-out poster!) for £2 (to cover postage costs). To offer a small donation in addition to the postage costs, please follow this link.