Today we are celebrating the creativity and ingenuity that you have demonstrated in your pictures of both your home workstations and what you are doing in your regular breaks to help your wellbeing – thank you to everyone who has contributed.
Working with a 2-Year-Old at Home … in Lockdown!
Hello! I’m Margaret Ayers, Director of Human Resources & Organisational Development. Like many of you I’m trying to continue my job whilst also having to care for a child at […]
Looking after You – Sleep
Whilst there is of course a focus in so many of our conversations and thinking at the moment about how we can work smart and be productive, there is the […]
Keep moving to keep going
Most of us are stuck inside and abiding to the rules of lockdown, to help minimise the spread of COVID-19 – but what impact does that have on our mental […]
Is your home office working well for you?
As we enter our eigth week of working from home, our daily Staff Development Blog Series this week will focus on the theme of “Working Well”. Today the Health & […]
Volunteering
Along with the rest of Society during these unprecedented times, charities are being stretched and challenged, with many facing uncertain futures. As they adapt to support their beneficiaries in different […]
Measuring Wellbeing
The University has just launched a pulse survey aimed at taking the wellbeing temperature of staff now we are a few weeks into lockdown. Measuring wellbeing is a tricky thing […]
Spread a little happiness
Happiness is an oft maligned term – too idealist, too vague, too twee for some. I’m rather fond if it myself, that idea of a cheerful state of being. In […]
Riddle Me This…
Last Friday afternoon we had a virtual Department quiz – a perfect way to end the week. One of the quiz rounds was on riddles. And it got me thinking […]