Our PhD student, Lorena Cervera, presents at the Málaga Film Festival

UCL PhD student, Lorena Cervera, presented her last documentary at the renowned Málaga Film Festival on the 9th of June. #PrecarityStory is a short documentary that tells the work story of Isabel, a cleaner, hourly-paid teacher, and researcher in the same British university. Her story stands as an example of the increasing casualisation of university labour and its human consequences. Filmed during the 2018-2020 UK higher education strikes, this documentary exposes the little-known reality of the academic precariat and fuels the ongoing public debate on the effects of neoliberal policies —and now also Covid-19— in British higher education. The film has been very well received in Spain, where it has been awarded at the Alcances Documentary Film Festival and by the scheme Cortos en Femenino. In Málaga, it spurred a lively conversation with the audience about the precarious conditions that many people suffer today at their workplace.