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...
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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...
USM Rollout Update– August 2019
BY JEREMY BRITTON & AMY MCDONALD, UCD AGILE Closing out Phase 3 of the USM Rollout Phase 3 of rollout kicked off in May with the offices in the College of Science and College...
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...
Newly awarded Green Belts
By Bernadeta Kieromin, Agile Coordinator Congratulation to our newly awarded Green Belts! In April 2018, seven new exciting Green Belts were presented their QQI parchments by Professor Mark Rogers. Green Belt Awardees with Mark...
WST USM Rollout So Far– May 2019
By Jeremy Britton and Amy McDonald Since our last update, a lot has happened in the world of the Unified Support Model. Phase 1 of the rollout ended in January when we completed 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...
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 Update: Student Delegated Authority Decisions Project
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. When decisions are made by governing boards regarding the admission, progression, or graduation of students, Programme Offices/Graduate Schools submit a request to UCD Registry for changes to be made...
Standards for Ordering and Receiving Goods
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. Every School/College/unit in UCD goes through the process of ordering and receiving goods. Those of you who are part of teams who place a lot of orders will appreciate...
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...
Making team meetings more effective using visual management
By Audrey Dempsey, Manager of Business eLearning, UCD College of Business. Audrey Dempsey is the manager of the eLearning team in UCD College of Business. In this post, Audrey shares her teams story of...
Lean improvements for UCD’s curriculum support
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead When it comes to the UCD Programme Development, Approval and Review Framework (PDARF) process, the institutional demand for change was quite low level – people had come to accept...
Research Underspend – the story of a Green Belt project
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile As anyone knows who has ever put together a plan to spend money for some good reason or other, there are three ways spending goes – you spend...
Improving library support for modules with reading lists
Students take modules. Modules have reading lists. Module coordinators give reading lists to the Library. The Library buys the items on the reading list. Students get access to the reading list materials in the...