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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daisy Ayliffe

University of Cambridge whistleblower who reported alleged bullying wins employment tribunal

Prof Wyn Evans in a study or library with shelves of books behind him and a vase of orange flowers on the table. He is sitting with an open book titled Comets.
Prof Wyn Evans told a tribunal hearing in June that Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy had ‘a bad history of misogyny’. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer

A University of Cambridge whistleblower who alleged bullying of female staff inside the university’s Institute of Astronomy has won a tribunal against his employer.

Prof Wyn Evans told a tribunal hearing in June that the institute suffered from “a bad history of misogyny”. He claimed that one woman in the department had been “hounded out of a job”, another was “left a frightened woman”, and a third had faced “aggressive professors” at the institute.

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