Contact

I receive many e-mails. These tend to fall into two categories: the first is those from people who are interested in the possibility of coming to work with us on a long-term or short-term basis.

Regarding this first category. Oxford Forum is based in Cuddesdon, near Wheatley in Oxfordshire. We are aiming to set up an independent university, supported by business enterprises (see Careers). We are not in need of any highly skilled help, except perhaps in DIY and house maintenance, as we could handle any work requiring numeracy, literacy or computer skills ourselves if our time was sufficiently released from administrative chores. In particular, we cannot make use of anyone's computer skills, which we are often offered.

The second category of e-mails (and letters) is those from people who want to know my views on some topic or other, or want me to comment on their views.

With regard to emails of this kind: I am not in receipt of an academic salary, or indeed of any other kind of renumeration, but am forced to support myself and my institution by my own efforts. If people come to work with us, even in a temporary capacity, they will no doubt find that I talk to them about things of interest to them. However, I will not necessarily be able to reply to emails or letters in this category, particularly from individuals who are themselves in receipt of salaries.

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A note on reactions to my website

There is a universal lack of sympathy with my explanation of my position, and how I came to be in it. This is described as 'complaining' or even 'whingeing', which I am advised against doing, as it will 'put people off'.

The people who say these things sometimes express 'enthusiasm' for the tiny pieces of work for which I have been able to obtain funding, making the usual assumptions about my motivation and 'interest' in working in such fields, and suggesting that people would be less 'put off' if I made everything sound 'positive'. I.e. if I played in with the interpretation that I have not been, and am not, suffering in the least by being exiled from an academic career and deprived of the salary and status which would have gone with it, and which I have needed, and still need, to have.

None of the people who wish me to believe that it would be in my interests to stop putting people off by expressing myself realistically have helped me by coming to work here or by giving me money, or by encouraging anyone else to do either of those things.

I spent several decades without complaining, so as not to put people off from eventually giving me some reward for the work which I was able to produce by great effort in disadvantaged circumstances. Nothing ever came of this, at least nothing positive. There was a considerable amount of gratuitous misinterpretation and obstruction, not to say slander and persecution.

My complaints constitute a serious indictment of the educational and academic systems. The negative reactions to my complaints reinforce my conviction that I am doing the right thing in making them.

Celia Green