Leaning in: Personal reflections on anti-racism practice and the journey towards allyship By Kristy Widdicombe-Dutch, Head of Learning Skills ‘[T]here is no freedom without rights and no rights without the […]
How Are You?
To start off the New Year, we are encouraging every manager to have a wellbeing conversation with their team. What does that actually mean though, and how can you do […]
The new ‘Team Toolkit’ – What is it?
When asked to develop a team toolkit for the staff re-orientation webpages my first thought was ‘where do I start?’ It needed to be something that was useful to teams […]
Learning from Lockdown Teams
We hosted our first ever Virtual Staff Orientation this Wednesday and, to my mind, it was a very positive experience: no technical hitches, all the various presenters were there when […]
Leadership: Now and Next
Colleagues reading this who have some kind of leadership function in the University may be feeling a weight of responsibility beyond their previous expectations. Risk assessments, virtual team discussions, complete […]
What kind of positive is helpful right now?
I’m a generally optimistic person. I tend to hope things will work out for the best and I’m usually quite smiley and cheerful. Don’t get me wrong – I can […]
Learning is Clumsy
I heard this phrase from a speaker at a conference recently and was struck by it. When we envisage learning we perhaps have utopian ideas that we will positively embrace […]
What is in my control?
You may be familiar with the serenity prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,courage to change the things I can,and wisdom to know the […]
#KindnessMatters
We talk a lot about kindness, especially now in times of difficulty, and Mental Health Awareness Week. I want to dig underneath what we mean by kindness – how does […]