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There is a fog out my window this morning and the church I can usually see in sharp profile is just a grey shape looming in the grey. The start of the new academic year feels a bit like that – a term is emerging out of the mists but bits of it are … Read more. |
Coffees, Corridors and Common Rooms.. This is the fifth in our sequence of ‘remote working stories’. We began in May 2020, just after the lock down started, looking at how colleagues deal with the challenges COVID has posed. Today our guest is Dr Nuria Garcia Ordiales, School Manager of the School of Mathematics and … Read more. |
By Jason Masterson, UCD Student Services, Emma Caron, UCD Registry and Aisling O'Grady, Student Advisers The UCD Orientation team were delighted to take part in the WST Summer School in July which provided an opportunity for colleagues across the campus to compare and contrast their Orientation plans, particularly for Stage 2 students. Read more. |
By Catherine McDonnell and the Student Desk Team The start of term is an intense time for all of us across campus as we get ready to greet our new students and welcome back the returning cohort. Here on the Student Desk in UCD Registry is no different. Preparation for a September 2021 return to campus was done from our … Read more. |
By Caroline Hackman, Customer Service Team Leader Back in the early 1990’s, email was the new thing. Not everyone had one and it was even a bit of a status symbol and IT Services adopted this technology to provide a new mechanism for customer support. While IT Services have changed models, ITSM tools and restructured support teams over the years, …
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By Licia Carlesi, MENU Committee Member For those who might be unfamiliar with the Multicultural Employee Network at UCD (MENU), here's a short video introduction. We’d love to have your company at one of our upcoming events – read on for more! … Read more. |
By Michelle Power, Sierra Bower and Ria Flom, UCD Alumni Relations As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the challenges it presented our team connecting with our audience of almost 300,000 alumni, UCD Alumni Relations sought new and meaningful ways to engage with our alumni community. Here are three campaigns that we ran last year which helped us achieve …
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By Aidan McElwaine, Research Programmes Team and Caroline Treacey, College Research & Innovation Manager, UCD College of Engineering & Architecture I’d like to expand on this exciting initiative which was briefly highlighted in the May edition of the WST Newsletter. As you know, URMAN (UCD Research Managers and Administrators Network) is a Community of Practice with over 160 members across UCD, which runs … Read more. |
You may remember that last year, I chatted with Josephine about the Student Experience Mapping project for the November edition of the WST Newsletter. I am back to talk experience mapping again, but this time in the context of the digital transformation element of UCD’s Rising to the Future. At the start of 2021, a … Read more. |
Inspired by the talk given by Joyce McLoughlin, Licia Carlesi and Sara Jones on LinkedIn Learning at the March Work Smarter Together Event, training was arranged on the topic of Writing for the Web to take place over four weeks in June and July. Here’s what we learned! We asked for volunteers from the … Read more. |
Phase 3 of the USM Project happened in a time of upheaval due to the global pandemic and the quick turnaround to remote working. For this reason, the project and related rollouts to new areas looked a little different over the past 18 months than previous phases. Read more. |
We had a great session on 23 June 2021 for the inaugural Lean HE Ireland event with over 90 attendees from across the seven institutions - UCC, DCU, UL, QUB, TU Dublin, University of Ulster, and UCD - including 20 from UCD. The theme of “Starting, Connecting, Sharing” … Read more. |
Our annual Work Smarter Together Summer School took place online from 13th to 15th July for the second year in a row - we're all looking forward to 2022 being the year we get to see our colleagues in person at an event. Read more. |
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile Our next Work Smarter Together event is fast approaching - join us on Wednesday October 20th. Read more. |
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