Adèle MacKinlay: from Human Resources to People and Organisational Development
Today (Monday, 1 November) marks a significant step as the Directorate of Human Resources changes its name to the Directorate of People and Organisational Development.
Colette Fagan and Nalin Thakkar: Getting ready for COP26
To tackle the greatest crisis of our lifetime – climate change – our University is undertaking agenda-setting work to help ensure a sustainable planet.
Patrick Hackett: Slowly emerging from upheaval – an opportunity to do things differently
I’ve been thinking about the potential opportunity to apply what we have learned through the pandemic to reshaping Professional Services as we move forward.
Melissa Westwood and Colette Fagan: Prosper, unlocking postdoc career potential
Our institution, in partnership with the University of Liverpool and Lancaster University, is spearheading the Research England-funded Prosper project to redefine postdoc career development.
Karen Heaton: Why our hard-earned retirement is top of my agenda
How we will spend our hard-earned retirement has been top of my agenda this year. Not only because I will retire from the University in November, after 15 years of service, but also because the USS pension scheme has been facing challenges.
Patrick Hackett: Working smarter and living better – a hybrid future update
In Professional Services, we want to create a more flexible future for our people because we know that it can benefit us in our professional and personal lives.
Hannah Rundle: It’s not what we do, but how we do it: SEP “How We Work Together” principles
Often when we talk about the Student Experience Programme (SEP) we focus on the new technology, processes and staffing changes this major change initiative will bring to the University. As part of the SEP leadership team, I have, along with many of my colleagues been an advocate of the importance of us also thinking about our shared ways of working.
Danielle George: Blended and flexible learning – a look back and the road ahead
It’s fair to say that when it comes to teaching and learning, the past twelve months have seen seismic shifts – developments we might have expected to take close to a decade when we rung in the new year in January 2020 were suddenly compressed into a few months, with colleagues getting to grips with new technologies and rapidly moving their teaching online.
Patrick Hackett: Working smarter and living better: a hybrid future
I love an anniversary or a celebration – but realising that a year ago today we had, for the most part, to close the campus is not something I thought we would be marking, and indeed it isn’t something that many people would probably look on as a celebration.
Luke Georghiou: Keeping connected in Europe after the Brexit Deal
Uncertainty has been a running theme during the long-drawn-out process of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. Initially this applied most forcefully to EU nationals worried about their future rights to study, live and work in this country (and vice-versa for their UK counterparts) but concerns also extended to whether we would be able to continue to take part in EU research and student mobility programmes and to wider issues around the potential impact of trade and regulatory change.
