How to develop and thrive by Harriet Rowley https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88 What ideas can you put forward of how staff could be supported to develop and thrive? en-us 2021-11-24 09:48:55 UTC 2025-10-23 09:55:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910266329  Extracurricular activities: having a variety of them in topic, to grow as a community, but not an overload of them. ]]> 2021-11-24 09:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910266329 Breaking down the perceived dichotomy between those who do research and do teaching. It is really not helpful and creates a lot of resentment. How can we move forward without this or differently from how it is now? https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910266573 2021-11-24 09:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910266573 Cross-disciplinary and cross-faculty work is not necessarily encouraged when Faculties are encouraged to be part of a competing narrative about who got most money via reporting systems. UKRI funding is only got through collaboration and this must be supported. kateheronpahl https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910266957 2021-11-24 09:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910266957 More effective use of the PDR process so that it has greater value and meaning. daniel_allen5 https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910267590 2021-11-24 09:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910267590 The amount of admin involved in teaching including PGR teaching stops research e.g. problems with Moodle, the Graduate School kateheronpahl https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910267682 2021-11-24 09:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910267682 We need to have more spaces to meet and share our research - introducing ourselves face to face. kateheronpahl https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910268249 2021-11-24 09:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910268249 Talent management, rather than crisis management. daniel_allen5 https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910268250 2021-11-24 09:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910268250 https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910268340 Having space and time for personal development activities /staff training so it doesn't just slip down the priorities list and get forgotten]]> 2021-11-24 09:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910268340 There are also important ways in which we need to think about how knowledge is produced with communities. More thought needs to go into the idea of Brooks as a community space. kateheronpahl https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910269297 2021-11-24 09:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910269297 Maybe UK/English universities suffer from an unhelpful division between research and teaching, which seems to be exacerbated at MMU and we need ways to address this https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910269327 2021-11-24 09:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910269327 It would be nice to have department meetings where we met people - people who started in lockdown have missed a lot. kateheronpahl https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910270187 2021-11-24 09:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910270187 https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910271230 Student voice and experience is really important, but we need to find a balance with the physical capabilities and capacity to give more from staff. we can't redouble our efforts to meet student expectations when we can't physically give anything more.]]> 2021-11-24 09:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910271230 If you are valued through being with people you are more loyal to the institution kateheronpahl https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910271255 2021-11-24 09:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910271255 'Teaching triage' has become the norm because systems are not working in ways that support students and staff - just constant crisis handling and fighting systems https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910271520 2021-11-24 09:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910271520 More effective student and programme support services to reduce increasing bureaucratisation and administrative pressure on academics. daniel_allen5 https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910271913 2021-11-24 09:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910271913 An understanding of what we do research-wise, and valuing each other's diversity of thinking would be good kateheronpahl https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910273500 2021-11-24 09:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910273500 GS needs serious investment of resources as it is currently letting people down - the GS staff are great but do not have time or resource to be able to respond to staff and students https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910273679 2021-11-24 09:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910273679 Letting people know that they do not have to wait for permission to innovate and problem solve. daniel_allen5 https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910273984 2021-11-24 09:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910273984 More cross-faculty collaboration - Centre of the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield was a great force to bring people together and support grants. kateheronpahl https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910274909 2021-11-24 09:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910274909 Develop a culture where collaboration is seen as being more important than individual victory! daniel_allen5 https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910277217 2021-11-24 09:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910277217 It's kind of obvious but... https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910348833 Investment in terms of staff development is necessary: team building, team diagnostics, ensuring that colleagues have MEANINGFUL amounts of time for CPD on their workloads. Fostering reflection. Collaboration happens on a social level. Please create an event where we can mingle and meet as many potential collaborators as possible, and these collaborations would happen in both research and teaching, learning and assessment. How about peer observation of teaching across Faculty?]]> 2021-11-24 10:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1910348833 Job security https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1912616563 We need people to feel valued for their work. Precarious, term and otherwise substandard contracts don’t reflect that. ]]> 2021-11-25 13:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1912616563 Cut bureaucracy and focus on fewer things we which we do well https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1923328074 We are incredibly bureaucratic like most universities and waste too much time/money on pointless admin. This is across various areas of operation - from internal processes, approvals, to how we set up and deliver courses. The personal tutoring system/5YP is a complete joke and tutoring by paperwork]]> 2021-12-01 17:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1923328074 Actual time to do research! mtrbrooks https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1923490301 2021-12-01 18:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1923490301 More efficient central services mtrbrooks https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1923494161 Ever since things like Assessments etc. were centralised, there are constantly delays getting things updated on Moodle on time. Weeks can go by without a response. It has caused unnecessary stress and wastes a lot of time.]]> 2021-12-01 18:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1923494161 Share more information about what's going on/decisions being made from FEG and management groups jacquimellor https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1925193516 2021-12-02 14:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1925193516 Better planned away days across Faculty and by Dept where staff wellbeing as well as business is catered for. Planned at start of year to ensure transparency/people know what to expect/what we need to look at e.g. key issues such as NSS, graduate outcomes, programme development, programme plannnig for this year/next year. jacquimellor https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1926911749 2021-12-03 08:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1926911749 Transparency, clarity, information, understanding. jacquimellor https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1926919031 2021-12-03 08:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hekrowley/vj1ffwwhzvr7nk88/wish/1926919031