Work Smarter Together Newsletter

Welcome to the November newsletter

Happy November newsletter! As I write, the pink tinged clouds of a magical November dawn are fading into the soft greys of reality and the significance of ‘working from home’ is starting to sink in. I am not sure if many of us will be totally surprised we find ourselves here again but …

Remote working stories: Jason Masterson, Student Centre Manager

Sometimes it is not until you are saying goodbye that you think of saying ‘hello’. I had that experience recently when a LinkedIn alert announced that Jason Masterson, Student Centre Manager for some time, had a new job. “Jason’s gone!?” It turned out that he had moved to a role in UCD Estates on …

Activity Based Working in Ardmore House

By Maureen Quinn, President's Office You may have read about the Ardmore House Activity Based Working project in the 02 November President’s Bulletin. If not, you can access that bulletin here, and the ABW report here. You might also like to hear how it is working in practice from someone on the ground … here’s what’s happening from my perspective. …

Lean Practitioner - Streamlining the External Credit Application for Graduate Research Students

By Jennifer Sullivan, UCD Graduate Studies Credit for External Learning is Concurrent credit for modules/courses/learning that graduate research students complete outside of UCD during their programme. (See Section 2.4 of the revised Recognition of Prior and Concurrent Learning Policy.) Why did we need a project on this? I joined the UCD Graduate Studies-Graduate Research Board Support Team in June 2020 …

LEAN Practitioner - University Secretariat

By Hanna Laitinen, Sarah Moroney, Suzanne Clauson, and Emily Coffey, University Secretariat When the opportunity to take part in the Agile Yellow Belt Training workshop presented itself, a number of our team within the University Secretariat were delighted to avail of the opportunity and hone our project development and planning skills. Hanna Laitinen, Sarah Moroney, Suzanne Clauson, and myself, Emily …

Introducing UCD Health Affairs

By Professor Tim Lynch, Vice Principal for UCD Health Affairs and Chief Academic Officer for IEHG UCD Health Affairs’ role is to assist the health science schools, and other schools (Science, Engineering, Business, Architecture etc.), at UCD to enhance collaboration with their affiliated academic hospitals. Health Affairs provides a formal channel for cooperation between the Ireland East Hospital Group (IEHG) and UCD, …

Unified Support Model Update

By Colin Burke and Ciarán Bryan, USM Project Team Greetings colleagues, I hope this message from Unified Support Model finds you well. USM has gone though a transition period as a unit this year, with staff moving onto other positions in the University and new staff coming in to take up the mantle. The USM mission is still the …

Workshop Technology Accessibility Guidelines

By Eimear Kelly (School of Psychology; Eimear was previously a member of the USM team) Purpose The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines to those running workshops online in order to make them accessible to all. MURAL Mural is partially WCAG compliant - this means it meets a number of web accessibility criteria - and it can be navigated by …

Coming soon - Work Smarter Together February 2022

Our next Work Smarter Together event will take place on Wednesday 16 February - more details to follow soon! In the meantime, add the date to your diary and we hope to see you on the day. Follow us on Twitter - @UCDWorkSmart #UCDWST #UCDAgile

WST October event on Hybrid Working: Recap

We were delighted to welcome over 150 colleagues to our Work Smarter Together event on Hybrid Working on 20th October. Michael Sinnott was our MC and Prof. Mark Rogers (Registrar and Deputy President) opened the event. He spoke about how these WST events remind us that working together as a group makes life better for UCD colleagues and students alike. …

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