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Welcome to the September 2023 WST Newsletter
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Welcome to the September edition of the Work Smarter Together Newsletter - ‘the ecology of a project’. This newsletter aims to give you an insight into what it takes to get cross functional projects over the line. We have three stories from colleagues across the University that highlight how different parts of the University have come together to innovate and …
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Project Focus 1 – The essential role of stakeholders as collaborators, contributors and champions
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Considering your stakeholders is vital to a project. This is something that must be revisted over the course of the project. You need to know who to includeat each point so that challenges can be overcome by engaging with appropriate stakeholders with the right expertise We looked at UCD LEAP through the lense of it's stakeholders
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Project Focus 2 - Data Driven: The Tip of the Iceberg for Sustainable Change
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The UCD Green Campus Initiative, UCD Estates have recently concluded a public facing study promoting a reusable cup initiative using ECups, launched in February 2023 and concluded in May 2023. This was however the tip of the iceberg in the initiative . As part of the Ecosystem of a UCD Project newsletter, we asked them to share some data around …
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Project Focus 3 - Enhancing the Extenuating Circumstances System
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This month saw the roll-out of several user-driven enhancements to the Extenuating Circumstances System, as part of the UCD Programme for Operations and Transformation (POST). In this article, we talk to those involved in delivering the changes; about the benefits to students, Academic and Professional staff; and about the change journey itself, from discovery to implementation. Supporting Student …
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A Day in the Life - Niall Dennehy
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Who are you? My name is Niall Dennehy. I’m from Carlow but live in Dún Laoghaire with my wife and two daughters. How did you get here? What was the journey to UCD? I began working in UCD somewhat by accident. 17+ years ago, I had been away travelling after college for a few months, and on the morning that …
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CoP Spotlight - Citizen Scientist
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Why was the Citizen Science CoP established? In early 2022, Liz Bruton (UCD Earth Institute) and Jane Nolan (UCD Library) joined forces to set up the CS CoP as there was increased interest in and activities around across UCD in citizen science but no central hub for people interested in or already doing citizen science to find out more and …
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Unleashing ChatGPT: A University Administrator's Journey to Enhanced Productivity
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In UCD Agile, we are constantly on the lookout for innovative ways to enhance our ways of working, to continually improve, and provide more value to the staff that we support. Recently, in preparing for a Work Smarter Together Summer School workshop titled "Mastering Google Sheets Timelines," I turned to technology to streamline my lesson planning process. The result? An …
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Book now - WST October Roundtable
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Our proposed theme for the October event is to hold an internal roundtable on Disruptive Technology, specifically AI, (with ChatGPT being the shorthand to refer to this) and its use by professional staff in the day-to-day. The intent of the roundtable is to have an open discussion by selected pertinent members of staff from different areas of responsibility that are …
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WST Summer School 2023 - Review
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Do you remember July 2023? Here's a clue it was raining. We persevered and what right on ahead with our Summer School 2023 programme. It was a little bit of an experiement on our end because we intentionally limited the number of attendees we could have at each sesson. We've been thinking about engagement recently and what it means …
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