‘Loud’ academic awarded more than £100,000 for unfair dismissal

University of Exeter ordered to pay compensation to physicist Dr Annette Plaut, who was sacked after 29 years

A senior academic who says she was sacked from her post in a university's physics department because of her loud voice has been awarded more than 100,000 after winning a claim for unfair dismissal.

Dr Annette Plaut told the Guardian she had a naturally loud voice" that came from her middle European Jewish background and claimed it was the combination of her being female and loud" that had led to her dismissal from the University of Exeter.