Monthly Archives: June 2017
User survey – your feedback and voucher winner
Thank you to all our users who responded to the survey which closes today. All your views are valued and will help us to evaluate our service and plan for the future. Here's a summary of your feedback.
Tips on writing effective impact summaries
Professor Mark Reed blogs on how to produce impact summaries with impact to make better grant applications.
Improving Macquarie University with lean
Case study: An Australian university has been applying lean to streamline and improve its processes, discovering along the way how big a change the methodology can effect in the organisation's culture.
Raising the quality of teaching and learning for disabled students
Using tech to provide ways to make teaching and learning more accessible has won De Montfort University admiring words from government. Abigail Moriarty explains how DMU Replay works and why it doesn't only aid students with disabilities.
Sharing research equipment boosts industry in the north
The N8 Research Partnership has improved and updated its equipment-sharing database. This will make it easier to share apparatus from the region’s most research-intensive universities.
Nick Goldspink, interim co-director at N8, explains how the database's improvements will be a massive step forward to academics and to Northern industry, saving money, boosting efficiency and aiding research.
Integrated Reporting could help answer the ‘value’ question
The competition to find a comprehensive and accessible way to gauge a university's value has a new entrant. Matt Sisson explains why BUFDG is championing Integrated Reporting as the way forward.
UUK report: what do students want from their university?
To help inform the development of the OfS at this critical stage, Universities UK has carried out research with students to understand what they want, and most value, from their relationship with their university. This report sets out recommendations for how universities and the OfS can work together to address students' priorities in the new landscape.
Research contracting – HEFCE calls for examples of best practice
HEFCE has issued a request for evidence on existing good practice and key issues in research contracting. The deadline for submissions is Monday 4 September.
Lean: taking the strain out of admissions
Middlesex University has boosted staff confidence, reduced mundane tasks and produced a better student experience, simply by improving their admissions system. Karolin Arvidsson sets out how they did it.
Developing student and staff personas: a practical guide
If you want to be sure you're meeting the demands of your stakeholders as they use your services, creating personas to identify their needs will help sharpen your focus. As consultant Jean Mutton explains, it's a technique that's becoming more widely used and it needn't be a difficult process.
