December 2023 / Newsletter / One thing to know... 2024 / UCD Access & Lifelong Learning / Units / WST 2023
· by Donna Carroll · 4 Dec, 2023
Who are you guys? We are UCD Access & Lifelong Learning. We support students from diverse backgrounds: Students with disabilities Low-income students Mature students Part-time learners QQI-FET students Refugees/Asylum seekers While doing this, we...
December 2023 / MENU / Newsletter / Spotlight / WST 2023
· by Donna Carroll · 4 Dec, 2023
Time flies when you have a good time. This well-known saying couldn’t describe better how the Multicultural Employee Network in UCD (MENU) has been since the group was set up under EDI umbrella almost...
December 2023 / Newsletter / One thing to know... 2024 / UCD Agile / Units / WST 2023
· by Emma Mescall · 4 Dec, 2023
UCD Agile – Beyond the Belts Who are you guys? Hi all, I am Emma Mescall, projects coordinator/facilitator and I work in UCD Agile now for nearly 4 years. UCD Agile is a unit...
A Day in The Life / December 2023 / Interview / Newsletter / One thing to know... 2024 / POST / WST 2023
· by Donna Carroll · 4 Dec, 2023
Who are you? Hi, I’m Gavin Nolan and I’m a Change and Communications Lead in UCD. I am part of the Organisational Change Management Team and am currently working with the POST programme team....
December 2023 / Director's Welcome / Newsletter / NewsletterArchive / One thing to know... 2024 / WST 2023
· by Olga Murdoch · 4 Dec, 2023
Welcome to the December edition of the Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘One thing to know about…. In 2024’. In this newsletter we asked colleagues from across UCD to tell you a little bit...
CoP News / CoPs / CoPSpotlightArchive / December 2023 / Digital Literacy / Newsletter / One thing to know... 2024
· by Donna Carroll · 4 Dec, 2023
Who are you? UCD’s Digital Literacy Community of Practice was launched in February 2023 to act as a central hub for activities empowering UCD students and staff to develop key digital competencies that are...
Advance Centre / December 2023 / Ecosystem of a Project / Human Capital Initiative / Micro-Credentials / Newsletter
· by Donna Carroll · 4 Dec, 2023
The Advance Centre is one of the 24 HEA funded projects set up in 2020 as a part of the Human Capital Investment Pillar 3 (HCI). This was a government investment focused on...
Ecosystem of a Project / Newsletter / Project Story / September 2023 / Technology
· by Donna Carroll · 20 Sep, 2023
The LEAP (Live Engagement & Attendance) project was initiated in 2018 and proposed that Student Advisers would be provided with real-time programme-level engagement data in order to: Make targeted, proactive interventions possible Enable greater...
Ecosystem of a Project / Estates / Newsletter / Project Story / September 2023 / WST 2023
· by Donna Carroll · 20 Sep, 2023
The purpose of the UCD ECups study is to better understand the impact of behaviourally-informed communications and discounts on reusable cup ownership and use & among UCD staff and students. The study was undertaken...
Announcements / Newsletter / October Roundtable / September 2023 / WST 2023 / WST 2023 Events / WST October 2023
· by Donna Carroll · 20 Sep, 2023
We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming WST event this October 26 from 2pm – 3:30pm on campus. The event format is an open roundtable discussion with the ever popular social and...
Ecosystem of a Project / Newsletter / POST / POST Projects / September 2023
· by Donna Carroll · 20 Sep, 2023
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 Services Transformation (POST). In this article, we talk to those...
Citizen Science / CoP News / CoPs / CoPSpotlightArchive / Newsletter / September 2023
· by Donna Carroll · 20 Sep, 2023
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...
Chatbot / Newsletter / September 2023 / WST 2023 / WST Summer School 2023
· by Ciaran Bryan · 20 Sep, 2023
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...
A Day in The Life / Interview / Newsletter / Project Managers CoP / Project Story / September 2023
· by Donna Carroll · 20 Sep, 2023
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...
Director's Welcome / Newsletter / NewsletterArchive / Project Story / September 2023 / WST 2023 / WST October 2023
· by Olga Murdoch · 20 Sep, 2023
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...
2023 June / Director's Welcome / Newsletter / NewsletterArchive / WST 2023
· by Olga Murdoch · 13 Jun, 2023
Welcome to the Summer edition of UCD’s Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘A day in the life’. A key aspect of WST is about recognising and celebrating the achievements of our colleagues. We thought,...
2023 June / A Day in The Life / Interview / Newsletter / UCD Sport
· by Donna Carroll · 11 Jun, 2023
Who are you? Tadhg O’Leary, Programmes and Communications Assistant at UCD Sport. How did you get here? What was the journey to UCD? I studied the BSc Sport and Exercise Management degree from...
2023 June / A Day in The Life / Estates / Interview / Newsletter
· by Donna Carroll · 11 Jun, 2023
Who are you? I’m Suzanne Shorten, and I look after the summer letting sales of the student residences at Belfield, under the name ‘Summer at UCD’, which we created just over 10 years ago. ...
2023 June / A Day in The Life / Interview / Newsletter / School of Sociology
· by Donna Carroll · 11 Jun, 2023
This interview was conducted over Zoom and has been edited for length and clarity. Donna Carroll: Who are you? Arjumand Younus: So I’m Dr. Arjumand Younus. At the moment, I’m an assistant Professor of...
2023 June / A Day in The Life / Interview / Newsletter / Student Health Service
· by Donna Carroll · 11 Jun, 2023
We offered our participants the opportunity to be interviewed in person and recorded as one of the options for this feature. The following is a write up on one of these interviews. It has...