One Thing to know about University CRM Project Team in 2024
Who are you guys? We are a team of seven, based in Ardmore Annex. We’ve been working together as a newly formed team since the beginning of October this year. However, between us all,...
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One Thing to know about UCD Student Advisory Service in 2024
Who are you guys? University is a big part of students’ life when they are here with us for the duration of their studies. However, it’s not the only part. UCD Student Advisers support...
WST October Roundtable – ‘How will AI shape my future in UCD?’ – Review
On October 26, WST held its first ever roundtable event on the very timely topic of AI and disruptive technology through the lens of how it would impact the staff in UCD. It was...
One Thing to know about … 2024
Through this newsletter theme, we wanted to give the wider UCD Community a sense of what some of our colleagues do that might be of interest, use or relevance to them coming into 2024...
One Thing to know about UCD Access & Lifelong Learning in 2024
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...
Spotlight: MENU turns 5!
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...
One Thing to know about UCD Agile in 2024
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 – Gavin Nolan
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....
Welcome to the December 2023 WST Newsletter
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...
Digital Literacy
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...
Project Focus – The Importance of Understanding in Relationship Management
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...
A Day in the Life
In June 2023, we themed our newsletter around the idea of ‘A Day in the Life’. We asked some of our colleagues to complete a questionnaire about their day and experiences working in UCD. ...
Project Focus – The essential role of stakeholders as collaborators, contributors and champions
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...
Project Focus – Data Driven: The Tip of the Iceberg for Sustainable Change
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...
WST Summer School 2023 – Review
Do you remember July 2023? Here’s a clue it was raining. We persevered and what right on ahead with our Summer School 2023 programme. Over 3 days (July 12-14) we held 8 sessions in...
How will AI shape my future in UCD? – October Roundtable
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...
Project Focus – Enhancing the Extenuating Circumstances System
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...
UCD Citizen Science
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...
Unleashing ChatGPT: A University Administrator’s Journey to Enhanced Productivity
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 – Niall Dennehy
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...