Editing Cardiff University (section)

===Workload controversy===
On 19 February 2018, Malcolm Anderson, a university lecturer committed [[suicide]] at age 48 by jumping off a university building.<ref name="BBC News Feb 2018 1" /><ref name="BBC News Feb 2018 2" /><ref name="BBC News 2018" /><ref name="Reidy 2020" /><ref name="Haf Jones 2019">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47296631|title=Lecturer's widow hits out at Cardiff University workload|last=Haf Jones|first=Catrin|date=20 February 2019|website=[[BBC News]]|access-date=20 February 2019|archive-date=20 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220120522/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47296631|url-status=live}}</ref> The inquiry determined that Anderson's suicide was the result of a high-pressure workload.<ref name="BBC News 2018" /><ref name="Reidy 2020" />

In 2020, Grace Krause, a PhD student employed at Cardiff University started experiencing [[headache]]s and [[back pain]] after lengthy work at a computer.<ref name="Reidy 2020" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/overworked-undervalued-crippling-stress-university-15422303|title=Overworked and undervalued: The crippling stress university lecturers face|last=Deacon|first=Thomas|date=18 November 2018|website=WalesOnline|access-date=20 February 2020|archive-date=13 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713043208/https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/overworked-undervalued-crippling-stress-university-15422303|url-status=live}}</ref> She [[Twitter|tweeted]] that "Staff are marking hundreds of essays in an impossibly short time. It is exhausting. Everyone is in crisis mode. Stressed, moody, morose, everyone feels like they’re drowning."<ref name="Reidy 2020" /> Soon after, an email from the university was sent to all PhD students asking for these comments to be deleted, in order to avoid negative media attention, which sparked a debate about [[freedom of speech]] between employers and employees.<ref name="Reidy 2020" />