Category: Newsletter May 2021

By Michael Sinnott, Director of UCD Agile Welcome to the May 2021 newsletter.  The sky is bright, the birds are singing, there’s a whiff of vaccines in the air… there is more hope around,...

By Aidan Curran, IT Services – Enterprise Applications Group Waffle! Hamburger! Kebab! Yes, all things you’ll be eating on your way home from your first night out post-lockdown – but also actual names that...

By Elena Keany, Deputy Team Lead, Student Desk, UCD Registry The words of John Donne’s sermon No Man Is An Island were tolling loudly for me at the end of this year’s WST21 event....

By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile The WST Communities of Practice have been busy over the past few months.  Here’s a brief round-up of news from: UCD Public Engagement Community of Practice; URMAN (UCD Research...

By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile One of the Agile team’s overarching aims is to empower and support our colleagues, harnessing their creativity and innovation and in the process of doing so – to help...

By Michael Sinnott, Director, UCD Agile and Network Lead of Lean HE Ireland This is the first Lean HE Ireland update from UCD:  Lean HE Ireland now exists!  (The HE is higher education). What...

By Michael Sinnott, Director, UCD Agile When we began this series of ‘Remote Working’ interviews in May 2020 it was out of curiosity about how colleagues were coping with the move off campus.  How...

By Gregori Meakin, College of Arts and Humanities Office Across the University, lots of colleagues are being creative with Microsoft Excel.  The Excel Learning Community emerged from the Remote Working Group as a platform...

By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile Pencil in the dates and get ready to join us at our WST summer school on Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 July. This WST Summer School, as always, will...

By Michael Garvey, BDIC Programme Officer,  China Joint Colleges Office I have worked in China-facing roles for my entire UCD career, which stretches back to 2010, including in my current position as Programme and...

By Jeremy Britton, USM Rollout Team Greetings Colleagues, A lot has happened in the world of the USM since our last WST Newsletter post. This post is a quick snapshot of some of the...

By Eimear Kelly, USM Rollout Team The Remote Working Group was established by the USM Project Team in April 2020 in response to the move to remote working across UCD. Since setting up the...

By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile and Eimear Kelly, USM Rollout Team The Agile team is a big fan of MURAL – the online collaboration tool – we use it for all our workshops and...

By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile The week of the 8th March saw our biennial Work Smarter Together event, in an online format.  The theme this year was ‘work smart while being apart’ – we...