Welcome to Work Smarter Together 2021!
We’re delighted to have lots of really creative and thought-provoking submissions for this year’s WST21 – Work smart while being apart, during the week of 8th March.
Below is the schedule of events taking place each day. Each session will have a Q&A so you can ask questions. Don’t forget, the presenters are UCD colleagues so they are just an email away if you’d like to follow up after the session.
You can also engage with presenters via our Work Smarter Together Google Currents community so we can keep conversations going just like we were at a ‘live’ event!
Google Currents is also where you can view the Poster Exhibition which will run alongside the main sessions.
Monday 8th March – Click here for full details of sessions
| 10.00-10.30 | Opening Session | Registrar, Prof. Mark Rogers Michael Sinnott, Director UCD Agile |
| 10.30-11.00 | UCD CAH Exchanges Working Group – Collaborative, Student-Focused Solutions in Response to Cancellation of Exchange Programmes. | Dr Gillian Pye, Ruth Redahan, Amy Smith, College of Arts and Humanities |
| 11.00-11.30 | Access Classics: Beginning an outreach programme | Ms Tasneem Filaih, Dr Bridget Martin, School of Classics, Dr Christopher Farrel, UCD School of Classics |
| 1.00-2.00 | Networking opportunities and view Posters in Google Currents | |
| 2.30-3.00 | CORE Employee Self Service Diversity Screen | Tom Costelloe – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Project Officer and Louise Bloomfield – HRIS Analyst |
| 3.00-4.00pm | LinkedIn Learning – Let’s build the reach | Joyce McLoughlin – People and Organisation Development Manager; Sara Jones – Higher Education Partner, LinkedIn; Licia Carlesi – EDI Unit; Louise Power – Learning and Development Manager, Trinity College Dublin. |
Tuesday 9th March – Click here for full details of sessions
| 10.00-11.00am | Koru Mindfulness – What is it and why should I care? | Jean Lynch, Counselling Psychologist and Student Counsellor at UCD Student Counselling Service. Certified Koru Mindfulness Teacher
Dr. Triona Byrne Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead Manager, UCD Student Counselling Service. Aoife Treacy Counselling Psychologist and Student Counsellor at UCD Student Counselling Service. Clinical assistant for Koru Mindfulness Groups |
| 11:00 – 11.30am | Not here, don’t fear – How UCD Student Services supports students across the Globe | Jason Masterson, Head of Service, UCD Student Services. Mags D’Arcy, Communications Officer, UCD Student Services |
| 11:30am – 12:00pm | Motivating Students in a Virtual World: How Healthy UCD Adapted to Promoting Wellbeing Remotely | Maria Heffernan, Research Assistant at Healthy UCD. Brian Mullins, Director of Sport and Health Promotion at UCD |
| 12.00-12.30 | Digital Transformation: To Infinity & Beyond. | Student Recruitment Team Panel Session
Susan McAlinden, Anne-Marie Harvey, Gary Reid |
| 12:30 – 1:00pm | Teaching primary source literacy online | Evelyn Flanagan, Head of Special Collections, UCD Library |
| 1.00-2.00 | Networking opportunities and view Posters in Google Currents | |
| 3:00 – 4.00 | Improving Engagement Outcomes in Remote Learning Environments: Building Insights and Interventions | John Wyatt, Project Manager for UCD LEAP Project and Dr. Maurice Kinsella, Researcher for UCD LEAP Project, Niamh Nestor, Student Adviser |
Wednesday 10th March – Click here for full details of sessions
| 10.00-11.00 | Guest Speaker Session: Minding You | Breda McCague: Motivator, Empowerment and Transformation Specialist |
| 11.30-12.00 | Digital Transformation in Practice – Working Smarter with Google Workspace | Peter McKiernan, Rachel Hickey and Aidan Curran. Enterprise Applications Group, IT Services |
| 12.00–12:30pm | Keeping the doors open: reinventing library services online and on campus | Monica Glynn, Library Services Officer Avril Patterson, User Services Manager Debra McCann, Senior Library Assistant, Information Desk Services |
| 1.00-2.00 | Networking opportunities and view Posters in Google Currents | |
| 3.00-4.00 | Becoming a manager in the Distributed Office | Jeremy Britton, Project Manager, Unified Support Model and panelists: Paula McGarry (Director, UCD China Joint Colleges), Elena Keany (Deputy Team Lead, Student Desk, Registry), Sarah Butler (Deputy Team Lead, Curriculum Team, Registry) |
Thursday 11th March – Click here for full details of sessions
| 10.00-11.00 | Different ways of doing ‘Lean’ – stories from Higher Education and beyond. Panel discussion | John Hogg from the University of Strathclyde, Brian Clancy from An Post, Michelle Nelson from UCC, Lorna Dodd and Michael Sinnott from UCD. |
| 11.00-12.00 | Using Power Query to improve your work | Michael Garvey, China Joint Colleges Office |
| 12.00-12.30 | UCD ‘What It Takes’ Employability Series | Camille Rogers, Alumni Relations and Marketing Officer, UCD Alumni Relations. Michelle Coen, Career & Skills Consultant at UCD Careers Network. |
| 12.30–1.00 | Thank You For The Music | UCD Community Choir : Musical Director and contributors from the Choir Committee |
| 1.00-2.00 | Networking opportunities and view Posters in Google Currents | |
| 2.30-3.00 | UCD Online: A collaborative journey to improve customer journeys | Lisa Flannery, UCD Marketing Manager, Niamh Boyle, UCD Marketing Manager , Cillian Motherway, UCD Marketing Executive |
| 3.00-3.30 | Bringing the Educators programme online | Alan Morgan, Entrepreneurial Specialist , Innovation Academy |
Friday 12th March – Click here for full details of sessions
| 10.00-11.00 | Guest Speaker Session: How to Stay Creative, Positive, and Open whilst Locked Down | Ross Gaynor is an actor, theatre-maker, and educator. He is also Artistic Director of The Lock Inn – a live, online, and interactive events venue |
| 12.00–1.00 | Bridging cultural diversity through employee network – Sharing MENU experience | Multicultural Employee Network of UCD (MENU) team |
| 1.00-2.00 | Networking opportunities and view Posters in Google Currents |