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...
Tagged: #Newsletter2023
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....
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...
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...
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...
Welcome to the June 2023 newsletter
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,...
A Day in the Life – Tadhg O’ Leary
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...
Suzanne Shorten – A Day in the Life
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. ...
Dr. Arjumand Younus – A Day in the Life
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...
Dr. Eadaoin Lysaght – A Day in the Life
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...
A Day in the Life – Kathryn Milligan
Who are you? I’m Kathryn Milligan and I work as a Library Assistant in UCD Special Collections, one of UCD Library’s three Cultural Heritage units. How did you get here? What was the...
A Day in the Life with Lisa Padden
Who are you? I am Lisa Padden, the Programme Manager for University for All which is UCD’s whole-institution approach to access and inclusion. I’ve worked in UCD for over ten years and run a...
Paul Fitzgerald gives us ‘A Day in The Life’
Who are you? Hi all, Paul FItzgerald from Culture & Engagement here. How did you get here? What was the journey to UCD? I’ve been working with UCD HR in a variety of recruitment,...
‘A Day in the Life’ with Stacy Grouden
Who are you? My name is Stacy Grouden and I’m the School Manager in the School of English Drama and Film. How did you get here? What was the journey to UCD? I arrived...