by Viewpoint | May 13, 2020 | PSLT
Jonathan Winter, Head of Staff Learning and Development, shares some of the opportunities available to staff for continuing their professional and personal development. We are living through changes that few of us saw coming and even fewer were prepared for. So much...
by Viewpoint | May 6, 2020 | Faculty of Biology. Medicine and Health
Professor Ian Bruce, Director at the Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and chair of the COVID-19 Research Rapid Response Group (RRRG) at the University, talks about his experiences since the pandemic broke. It is hard to find superlatives to describe the...
by Viewpoint | Apr 30, 2020 | Faculty of Humanities
*This blog originally featured on WONKHE on 19 April 2020* Andy Westwood, Vice Dean for Social Responsibility in the Faculty of Humanities sets out the not-insignificant challenges that the government now faces in deciding what it wants from universities after the...
by Viewpoint | Apr 8, 2020 | Faculty of Humanities
Sir Cary Cooper, 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, on how to maintain positive mental health during the current crisis. One: Follow a routine Follow a routine and keep to it. It can be any routine, a totally new one if you wish, it...
by Viewpoint | Apr 7, 2020 | Faculty of Humanities
Lisa Murtagh, Head of Initial Teacher Education, in the School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), shares her experiences of home schooling. All of a sudden, many of us have found ourselves in the novel position of being a home-educator. From a personal...
