Students and staff. That's actually the scarier part for me.

Without getting into too much detail... I work in an area that means I may engage with areas of government policy and my research may or may not support it. It would not be related to or come under the Prevent program or similar topics, but I believe sometimes the government might prefer work my colleagues and I might do was not produced. Right now I am not engaged in such a project but I am currently teaching on some.

What the hell can I do here? Seriously? I can't not use my institutional e-mail. I have a requirement to do so to contact students, engage with admin etc., it's how my colleagues contact me and how future collaborators find me. I can't start using PGP when I message my research partners either. Any advice very welcome.

The NUS is absolutely right here. This is suppressive. This makes me nervous and want to avoid touching on government policy or anything controversial and stick to the other avenues of research I have available. I damn well won't give in to that feeling - apart from anything else, I owe it to my students - but it's definitely there.