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The fourth North Wales and North West Regional Conference: Achieving success | AUA Blog

The fourth North Wales and North West Regional Conference: Achieving success At 10:30am on Friday January 17th, 2020 at Edge Hill University, over 100 Professional Services Staff from across North Wales and the North West were captivated for one hour by Andy Grant, ex-Royal Marine turned motivational speaker and fastest single leg amputee in the […]
Mar 10, 2020
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Admit it, you don’t know what you’re doing | AUA Quick Reads

Admit it, you don’t know what you’re doing Gillian Davis | Assistant Director (Timetabling and Examinations) | University of Birmingham “Let’s ADKAR it!” I have been in no doubt, on more than one occasion, that I have strayed into a foreign land.  I’m (usually) no fool and have managed all sorts of projects across my […]
Mar 9, 2020
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University Challenge? | AUA Quick Reads

University Challenge? Is our professional identity affected when working with academic colleagues? Joanne Caldwell | CDT Manager | University of Salford How many times can you say “I am just an administrator” when asked what you do at the university you work at? It is this question amongst others that promoted my research into how […]
Mar 9, 2020
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Developing Effective Working Relationships | AUA Quick Reads

Developing Effective Working Relationships Ranitha Ramdeyal | Manager for Academic Services | University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa (AAA) I would like to give conference attendees a perspective of someone who comes from a Rainbow Nation, a country which is so diverse in terms of race, culture, religion and values. Amazingly, the one factor that […]
Mar 9, 2020
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Looking behind the label | AUA Quick Reads

Looking behind the label Mental ill-health in the workplace Verity Westgate | Research Coordinator | University of Oxford Together with a colleague I have been delivering training about mental ill health in the workplace since 2016 and have now trained over 300 members of staff across our institution.  As someone who has struggled with various […]
Mar 2, 2020
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Blood, sweat, tears and cats | AUA Quick Reads

Blood, sweat, tears and cats International project management through the lens of Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3 (GETM3) Suzanne Crane | International Research Project Coordinator | Northumbria University April in Warsaw. Unseasonably warm. A group of 21 researchers and Higher Education professionals from 10 universities and commercial companies in Europe and Asia gather in a […]
Mar 2, 2020
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Transforming what it means to grow up in South Yorkshire | AUA Quick Reads

Transforming what it means to grow up in South Yorkshire Greg Burke | Director South Yorkshire Futures Programme | Sheffield Hallam University Across South Yorkshire, there are fabulous schools and outstanding teachers, but the data tells a challenging story: the young people of South Yorkshire are less likely to achieve good GCSEs, less likely to […]
Mar 2, 2020
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Achieving results

Achieving results The behaviour ‘achieving results’ relates being successful to producing high quality work that consistently meets pre-agreed objectives and criteria. There are many ways that the AUA can help you to practise this behaviour, giving you opportunities outside of the day-to-day tasks of your role. For example, one that you perhaps might not have […]
Feb 27, 2020
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