AHEP Updates
window.dojoRequire([“mojo/signup-forms/Loader”], function(L) { L.start({“baseUrl”:”mc.us4.list-manage.com”,”uuid”:”a9b54f02a2e244d6dc04cf264″,”lid”:”cf756dfbf2″,”uniqueMethods”:true}) })
Day two | Navigating the new normal
Published on Mar 20, 2020 by Jane Reid / 1 Comment
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates , Work and Covid
Day two | Navigating the new normal Jane Reid | Teaching and Learning Manager (PgCert) | The AUA In my current job, I rarely work from home despite my role working on a blended learning programme being quite suited to it. I enjoy working in an open plan office, I enjoy the variety of our […]
Lucidity Solutions – Exhibitor Blog
Published on Mar 12, 2020 by Dr Jo Edwards / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of reading university strategic plans, you might have been tempted to hang your head in despair! They often sound very similar, have too many – or too few – ways to evaluate progress, and are divorced from what really happens in the institution. In response, we’ve developed an approach […]
Working together
Published on Mar 12, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Updates , PgCert , Previous AUA CPD Framework , Professional Development
Working together The behaviour ‘working together’ is all about the skills we use when we work with colleagues to achieve shared objectives. We all work collaboratively within our daily jobs but the AUA also offers many exciting and interesting ways to develop this behaviour that go beyond routine team meetings and group projects. One very […]
Insights into geographical inequalities in higher education participation
Published on Mar 11, 2020 by Neil Raven / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
Insights into geographical inequalities in higher education participation | AUA Blog Geographical variations in rates of higher education [HE] participation have long been recognised. In 1997, the Dearing Report referenced research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England which showed that ‘the probability of a young person entering a higher education institution is strongly […]
The fourth North Wales and North West Regional Conference: Achieving success | AUA Blog
Published on Mar 10, 2020 by Simon Vaukins / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
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 […]
Admit it, you don’t know what you’re doing | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Mar 9, 2020 by Gillian Davis & / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
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 […]
University Challenge? | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Mar 9, 2020 by Joanne Caldwell / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
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 […]
Developing Effective Working Relationships | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Mar 9, 2020 by Ranitha Ramdeyal / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
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 […]
Looking behind the label | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Mar 2, 2020 by Verity Westgate / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
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 […]
Blood, sweat, tears and cats | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Mar 2, 2020 by Suzanne Crane / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
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 […]