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Thursday, 9 April 2015

The death of Stefan Grimm was “needless”. And Imperial has done nothing to prevent it happening again

The last email of Stefan Grimm, and its follow-up post, has been read over 195,000 times now.


After Grimm’s death, Imperial announced that it would investigate itself The report is now available.



Performance Management: Review of policies, procedures and support available to staff

Following the tragic death of a member of the College’s staff community, Professor Stefan Grimm, the Provost invited the Senior Consul, Professor Richard Thompson, and the Director of Human Resources, Mrs Louise Lindsay, to consider the relevant College policies, procedures and the support available to all staff during performance review.




The report is even worse than I expected. It can be paraphrased as saying ‘our bullying was not done sufficiently formally -we need more forms and box-ticking’.


At the heart of the problem is Imperial’s Personal Review and Development Plan (PRDP). Here is an extract...

Read more at: DC's Improbable Science by David Colquhoun