AHEP Blog
The AHEP blog is a space to voice opinion, inform, celebrate and share perspectives of working in higher education administration and management today. Each blog will provide thoughts and ideas from three core outlooks:
Policy, me and my role: what is your opinion or experience of the impact of policy on your role or on HE administration and management more widely? What can others learn from you?
Professional development: knowledge, ideas and tools for furthering a career in higher education and enriching your experience of being a HE professional.
My AHEP: covering everything that AHEP has to offer, brought to you from members who have experienced it first-hand.
If you’d like to write a blog for us, please email us at hello@ahep.ac.uk to express your interest.
The fourth North Wales and North West Regional Conference: Achieving success | AUA Blog
Published on Mar 10, 2020 by Simon Vaukins / No Comments
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]
Transforming what it means to grow up in South Yorkshire | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Mar 2, 2020 by Greg Burke / No Comments
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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 […]
Let’s change change | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Feb 24, 2020 by Susie Palmer-Trew / No Comments
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Let’s change change Susie Palmer-Trew | Director, Change and Improvement | The Open University Change in University’s can feel hard enough, but learning about it shouldn’t be. We are a motley crew of academics, change managers, project managers, consultants, professionals and a few mates. What connects us is the ambition to deliver change in the […]
Can kindness really help? | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Feb 24, 2020 by Susie Hills / No Comments
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Can kindness really help? Susie Hills | Joint CEO of Halpin | The home of experts in higher education. Things are tough. We have to do more with less. We have to deal with constant change and uncertainty. We want to have positive impact, but things are harder than ever. In times like this, can […]
SCALE-UP: Is it really THAT different?
Published on Feb 24, 2020 by Dr Tony Churchill / No Comments
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SCALE-UP: Is it really THAT different? | AUA Quick Reads Dr Tony Churchill | Senior Educational Developer | Nottingham Trent University A frequent question when we introduce SCALE-UP (Student-Centred Active Learning Environments with Upside-down Pedagogies) is “How is that different from my usual teaching?” In some ways, that is encouraging because it shows that many elements of […]