Welcome to the August 2021 Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director, UCD Agile 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. ...
Category: Newsletter August 2021
Orientation update
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...
Remote Working Stories: Dr Nuria Garcia Ordiales, School of Mathematics and Statistics
By Michael Sinnott, Director, UCD Agile 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...
How UCD Alumni Relations engaged with their community in Lockdown
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...
IT Support Hub – the changing face of support in IT Services
By Caroline Hackman, Service Desk Manager, IT Services 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...
WST Summer School: a look back
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile 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...
MENU – our journey so far
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...
Writing for the Web with LinkedIn Learning
By Eimear Kelly, USM Rollout Team 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...
USM Project – Phase 3 update
By Eimear Kelly, USM Rollout Team 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...
URMAN and the All Island Research Excellence Network (AIREN)
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...
Student Desk – Return to Campus
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...
Lean HE Ireland Update – the 23 June 2021 event
By Michael Sinnott, Director, UCD Agile and Network Lead of Lean HE Ireland We had a great session on 23 June 2021 for the inaugural Lean HE Ireland event with over 90 attendees from across...
Putting the Focus on People – Experience Mapping and Agile Project Management in Digital Transformation
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile 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...
Save the Date for the next WST event: 20th October 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile Our next Work Smarter Together event is fast approaching – join us on Wednesday October 20th. We are currently on the hunt for a guest speaker to talk about...
WST Summer School 2021: Sessions and resources
This year’s Work Smarter Together Summer School took place on 13th, 14th and 15th July 2021. We were delighted to welcome so many of our colleagues to the 15 sessions. You’ll find links to...