Perspectives
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Category: Guest Post
An Online Post-it Note in a Digital Office
Aidan Curran, Communications Officer – Enterprise Applications Group (EAG) The great Return to the Workplace will no doubt herald a renaissance in pre-pandemic collaborative innovation and productivity, such as the historic 2011 Paris Post-it Note Challenge....
The Story of Charley Chatbot
Catherine McDonnell, UCD Registry UCD Registry, in line with its own ambitions and the UCD Strategy, is constantly looking to innovate by implementing advanced IT solutions. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the forefront of...
Getting involved in Consultation Processes (Or – Who cares what I have to say?)
Jeremy Britton – Interim Director of Administrative Services In the last few years I have found myself taking part in more and more workshops and consultation processes. A lot of the time I’m there...
Remote Working Stories – Elaine Hickey from UCD Estate Services
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile With the campus in Belfield now largely inhabited by locals out for their lockdown exercise, what about the people who are not there? How is remote working… working? I...
UCD Warp It (Waste Action Reuse Portal)
By Pia Polotto, UCD Estate Services Following on from the success of the UCD Furniture Re-use scheme which was featured in WST 2017, UCD Warp It was launched in April 2019, with an online...
Student Vetting
By Niamh Fitzgerald and Kaylin Bednarz, UCD Registry – Admissions Student Vetting consists of an external process carried out by the National Vetting Bureau, supported by an internal process within UCD. Both processes were...
Best Practice Approaches to Conferencing
By Anne Hallinan, UCD School of Music This handy 2 page template (in pdf format) outlines the steps in organising a conference from beginning to end and is based on the Six Sigma five...
Delegated Authority Student Decisions Project
By Iseult Ó Síocháin, UCD Registry When I took up a secondment as Deputy Director of Assessment in September 2017, it was clear that there would be a steep learning curve to familiarise myself...
UCD Mass Spectrometry Community of Practice #WST2019
By Dr Jimmy Muldoon, School of Chemistry On March 13th recently formed UCD Mass Spectrometry Community of Practice held a pre-event seminar as part of UCD’s Work Smarter Together event. The Mass Spec Cop...
School Managers Community of Practice #WST 2019
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The Work Smarter Together 2019 event took place on the 14th of March, and the School Managers Community of Practice were honoured to take part....
PA Network
By Maureen Quinn, President’s Office The UCD PA Network is planning a programme of events and training to enhance our respective areas for 2019. More details will be revealed in January 2019. In the meantime, if...
Technical Development Network
By Jimmy Muldoon The UCD Technical Development Network in association with the UK group HEaTED is running a Network Meeting for Third Level technical staff, on the topic “Technical Careers – Making a Successful...
Community of Practice for School Managers
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The Community of Practice for School Managers commenced meeting during the 2018/19 Autumn semester. Initial meetings have covered both operational and strategic issues, and the...
Introduction of a Chemical Management System in the Food Science Laboratory
By Sabine Harrison, School of Agriculture and Food Science I am a food and nutrition technologist in the School of Agriculture and Food Science. Having completed my Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training in...
USM Rollout – the story so far
By Jeremy Britton and Amy McDonald Phase 1 of the rollout of the Unified Support Model (USM) began in October 2018. Since then we have made great progress, working with the first four offices...
Introducing the School Managers Group
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The next and newest CoP group will be a School Managers Group. Drawing on the expertise of all School Managers, the Group will aim to...
Update from the Technical Development Network
Jimmy Muldoon, Chair, UCD Technical Development Network On 13 June 2018 the UCD Technical Development Network, in conjunction with UCD Staff Development, hosted a one-day National conference of Technical staff from Third-level institutions throughout...
Sharing best practices approaches to organising a conference
By Anne Hallinan, UCD School of Music A key achievement as the sole administrator in the UCD School of Music in 2014 was my central role in the successful organising of a national conference...
Green Belt project update: OBRSS II
By Dimitrios-Stavros Kapetanakis, Research Systems Analyst, UCD Research and Innovation Research activity is critical to our reputation as a leading international university. The University recognises that commitment to excellent research builds UCD’s reputation. We...