I house sat for a friend for a week last year. During the first few days I suffered badly from a nagging headache – nothing too debilitating, simply one of […]
I love to laugh
They say that laughter is the best medicine. Humour and wit can be found all around us – even now when it seems there isn’t much to laugh about. But […]
New Mental Health and Wellbeing online learning resources
Today I want to signpost you to two new courses in our E-Learning Portal catalogue which both cover topics related to mental health and wellbeing.
Navigating Your Development Journey
We in Organisational and People Development (OPD), are constantly working behind the scenes to ensure the development opportunities we offer colleagues are the most relevant and current.
Vice-Chancellor’s Challenge
At the last Vice-chancellor’s Challenge back in December 2019 the HR&OD Team “Heroes Ride on Dragons”, won the much-coveted ‘Fair Play’ award. Well, the dragons are back to defend their […]
Happiness Lessons
What? Lessons in Happiness? Happiness is an emotion, how do I have lessons in it? I watched an online session the other day and it was a great reflection on […]
Bullet Journaling
Our guest blog today is from Helen Davies in the Timetabling team, who shares insight into her practice of bullet journaling, as well as letting us peek inside the covers […]
The Sound of Silence
At the beginning of the week, Zoe shared a little of her relationship with music and how it motivated her in different ways. I, too, love music. I especially love […]
All Change Please
Someone said to me today “change is much easier if someone else tells you what to do”. I’m not sure I wholly agree, but it gave me pause for thought […]