Have your say – complete the WST September survey
📢 We need your input: How Does Team Size Affect Your Work? Contribute to our Survey! In our September issue of the WST newsletter: Big Unit, Little Unit, we’re exploring how the size the...
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PM² Essentials Training – October 15 2024
PM² will be held in Agile on Tuesday October 15. Who is this course for? This one-day course is for all staff who wish to develop an understanding of project management. Specifically, this PM²...
WST Summer School sessions are back
Booking is now open for the WST Summer School sessions. WST Summer School is where we invite you to participate in one of our small hands on peer-to-peer sessions to learn some information from...
Welcome to the June 2024 WST Newsletter
Welcome to the June 2024 edition of the Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘Time for work’. In this newsletter we asked colleagues from across UCD to reflect on how they create and manage the...
Time for Work
Caroline Hackman, Service Desk Manager, IT Services When Emma from UCD Agile approached us about Time for Work, she asked us to share something specific in relation to our recent experience. In 2021 we...
Perspectives
Time Perception & Battling Cognitive Overload – David Delaney Time for Work – Caroline Hackman
Creating the UCD School of Business Event Register
By Peter Kenealy, School of Business How the project came about: What was the need In short, the need was for a shared, specifically Google, calendar. The problem, if you like, was three fold....
A Day in the Life – Mary Staunton
I had the chance to catch up with Mary Staunton, for a Day in the Life interview at the end of last week. It’s difficult not to talk to Mary for exactly as long...
Time perception and combating cognitive overload with David Delaney
Time Perception & Combating Cognitive Overload -David Delaney by Donna Carroll
The Water Cooler
Welcome to The Water Cooler, our newest WST feature. Here, we take some time to look at a topic that is impacting the organisation and everyone who works in UCD. Nothing fits this description...
Event Managers
Who are you? I am Donna Carroll, Agile Coordinator. The rest of the EM CoP committee are: Elizabeth Bruton, Communications and Engagement Officer, UCD Earth Institute Jason Masterson, Facilities Manager, Estate Services Mary Staunton,...
A Day in the Life – Sasha Smith
Who are you? My name is Sasha Smith and I am the SEA in UCD Classical Museum. How did you get here? What was the journey to UCD? I did a BA...
Call to Community of Practice facilitators
Communities of Practice are an established professional learning strategy in UCD. They are an effective way for groups of people who share an interest or responsibility for something they do as part of...
Join us for the Event Managers CoP Launch
Do you manage internal events in UCD? Would you benefit from joining a Community of Practice to share insights, advice and feedback on running events of all sizes in UCD? Would you like to...
One Thing to know about UCD Library in 2024
Who are you guys? UCD Library is welcoming and friendly, with an expert team offering the UCD community a range of library and information services that are continuing to grow all the time. We...
One Thing to know about UCD Proposal Support Team in 2024
Who are you guys? The Proposal Support Team provides Pre-Award research support to the UCD Research Community for national and international research funding applications. We liaise with research funding agencies in relation to both...
One Thing to know about UCD in the Community in 2024
About UCD in the Community UCD in the Community was established in 2016, to support and promote community engagement across the UCD community. The objective of UCD in the Community is to connect UCD...
One Thing to know about UCD IT Services in 2024
Who are you guys? UCD IT Services Where do you fit in in the broader UCD picture? We are part of Academic Affairs, reporting to the Registrar and Deputy President. What would...
One Thing to know about UCD Registry’s Staff Connector in 2024
Who are you guys? We are the Student Desk, which is UCD Registry’s front-facing team based in the Customer & Curriculum Operations Unit. Where do you fit in in the broader UCD picture? Registry...