Simon Thomson – The future of teaching and learning
Flexible Learning is about providing an ambitious and forward-looking strategic vision for the future of teaching and learning at The University of Manchester. Despite the darkness of the pandemic, I do often talk about the “slivers of silver” that we might glean from...
Simon Merrywest: Student Welfare
Warning: The following article discusses themes relating to student suicide. If that is not a topic for you then thanks for clicking through and you may prefer instead to read about our support for students elsewhere on Staffnet.There has been a lot of media coverage...
Helen Ashley: Why you should have your say
My first experience of the University of Manchester was attending a Women into Science and Engineering weekend course in 1987 with other teenaged girls from all over Greater Manchester.
Patrick Hackett: Working Together Charters – Actions speak louder than words
It’s almost a year since I wrote my Viewpoint blog ‘Slowly emerging from upheaval – an opportunity to do things differently’
In it I talked about what we’d learned during COVID-19 and the importance of using this valuable knowledge and wisdom to develop new ways of working. So, one year on, how are we doing?
Banji Adewumi and Dawn Edge: the Race Equality Charter and our race equality journey
July marks the start of the 12-month countdown to our next Race Equality Charter submission as we stand firm in our commitment to progressing race equality and equity for all.
Simon Merrywest: Why we’re running our first harm reduction campaign
In partnership with the Students’ Union, we have moved from a zero-tolerance to a harm reduction approach to drugs and alcohol. We will be running our University’s first harm reduction campaign from the 30 May 2022.
Colette Fagan: REF2021 results countdown – what it is and why it’s so important
Research and discovery is a core part of our University’s mission and strategy.Like many, I am proud of the quality and reach of our research and the research environment which we provide to enable our researchers to thrive. The quality of our research and its impact...
Colette Fagan and Angus Hearmon: Investing in research support at our University
Professor Colette Fagan, Vice-President for Research, and Dr Angus Hearmon, Director of IT, discuss future investment into research support and the importance of researchers’ voice in this.
Danielle George: What’s next for Flexible Learning?
The past year has been a real whirlwind for us all. With your help we shifted our direction of travel for teaching and learning at The University of Manchester towards a future blended and flexible model with the ‘First steps to flexible learning’ paper. From there we...
Judy Williams: Every day is a learning day
With Advance HE recently celebrating more than 100,000 D2 Fellowships (and 155,000+ of all Fellowship categories), Professor Judy Williams, Associate Vice-President for Teaching, Learning and Students shares her reflections on the wide-ranging impact of the Fellowship programme she leads on staff and students.
