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      <description>Please continue to share any ideas you have for making improvements in these areas</description>
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      <pubDate>2024-09-20 11:47:27 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>REC/EPC Development</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Subject-specific talks from journal editors of target journals to inform researchers, give tips, etc.</p><p><br/></p><p>Development club.</p><p><br/></p><p>Recruitment of experts.</p><p><br/></p><p>Mentoring.</p><p><br/></p><p>Continue CPE webinars.</p><p><br/></p><p>More seed corn funding. </p><p><br/></p><p>Individual research budgets.</p><p><br/></p><p>Is there a transfer between the two?</p><p><br/></p><p>If called a pathway, What is the pathway?</p><p><br/></p><p>Funding REC, what about EPC?</p><p><br/></p><p>Do you get hours for pedagogy research?</p><p><br/></p><p>Inter-department transfer for staff.</p><p><br/></p><p>Clearer criteria for promotion on EPC and REC.</p><p><br/></p><p>Feedback on promotion applications that didn't get through.</p><p>promotion. </p><p><br/></p><p>Mentors dedicated for promotion. </p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-09-20 11:49:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Communications</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Well</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>Teams chat </p><p><br/></p><p>Collegiality</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Areas for improvement</strong></p><p>Teams chat- Need two for work and banter.</p><p><br/></p><p>Regular department meetings/updates.</p><p><br/></p><p>Department SharePoint.</p><p><br/></p><p>Heavy content emails.</p><p><br/></p><p>Too many Team groups </p><p><br/></p><p>Volume of Emails</p><p><br/></p><p>Communication of faculty changes- info late in September</p><p><br/></p><p>Department meeting times/away days-ability to catch up on info missed.</p><p><br/></p><p>Traffic light system for Emails- What goes in Teams vs what goes on Email. </p><p><br/></p><p>More subject-specific Teams chats.</p><p><br/></p><p>Use formatting tools to highlight key points in long emails.</p><p><br/></p><p>Ground rules on how quickly we respond to urgent and non-urgent emails. </p><p><br/></p><p>Mailbox space gets full. Can we increase it? Don't want to delete it. </p><p><br/></p><p>Less last-minute communications. </p><p><br/></p><p>Info not told. Modules not Units; 2 days self-cert. Don't know what we don't know. </p><p><br/></p><p>Less last-minute communications. </p><p><br/></p><p>Advance comms regarding central team plans/changes (changes to system communicated late?</p><p><br/></p><p>Recirculate the dep SharePoint link regularly. </p><p><br/></p><p>Streamline- post everything in one email/newsletter; Lead time. </p><p><br/></p><p>Make work meaningful.</p><p><br/></p><p>No graphics in emails unless necessary. They use too much mailbox space.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-09-20 12:32:28 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Academic Admin</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p><br/></p><p>Michelle's SharePoint guide works well </p><p><br/></p><p>The intranet is easy to navigate and find things.</p><p><br/></p><p>No single source of truth on student data- TARDIS</p><p><br/></p><p>Power BI training ****</p><p><br/></p><p>Assessments: miscommunication w. results</p><p><br/></p><p>The September rush (Long summer this year).</p><p><br/></p><p>Having to give PowerPoints to students; multiple versions </p><p>(pre lecture, post-lecture with answers and speaker notes). </p><p><br/></p><p>Pictures of staff (sharable) difficult as ULs chasing. </p><p><br/></p><p>Academic misconduct- Why have if we don't penalise? Huge extra workload to remark.</p><p><br/></p><p>Central service need to do things timely- Moodle template and induction. </p><p>-Presto- Lots of clicks</p><p>-Too many platforms. </p><ul><li><p>Support to contact students- Not PTs. </p></li></ul><p><br/></p><p>More space in Outlook</p><p><br/></p><p>New starter coaching on systems (1/2 day?)</p><p><br/></p><p>Can Moodle Baseline template be set up centrally?</p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-09-23 10:25:56 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Workload Support Ideas and Feedback</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p><br></p><p>More time for assessment marking needed: </p><p>4 weeks is not long- need more people; Not reasonable for people to be marking more x hrs per week; 1/2 hour per script not long enough. i.e., videos 20 mins long- how do you watch, mark, fill in sheet (45 mins minimum).</p><p><br></p><p>RP tool/PPD/CPS/2 lots of areas not enough time.</p><p><br></p><p>Assignments are now so much bigger.</p><p><br></p><p>If mark things not taught on- need to familiarise with the unit.</p><p><br></p><p>No workload for resit marking *</p><p><br></p><p>Timetable issues 10-3 pm no breaks.</p><p><br></p><p>Tariffs- Supervisions (more hours)*</p><p><br></p><p>Workflow doesn't always work for part-time hours. </p><p><br></p><p>Unit leaders marking exams/having experts on that area marking *</p><p><br></p><p>Staff reliability monitoring. </p><p><br></p><p>Consistency in teaching teams year on year*</p><p><br></p><p>More non-teaching opportunities for staff to reduce teaching WLs.</p><p><br></p><p>If possible extend the marking window from 4 weeks. </p><p><br></p><p>Teach your specialty; do not treat us interchangeable based on WLM constraints. </p><p><br></p><p>Fewer standardised admin tasks which add time frictions and do not enable professional space or responsibility. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-09-23 10:53:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Opportunities for any Additional Improvements</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p><br/></p><p>Promotional opportunities </p><p><br/></p><p>Pay</p><p><br/></p><p>More time to carryout research (EPC Pathway)</p><p><br/></p><p>More varied methods of assessments (Exams +VIVAs)</p><p><br/></p><p>More team-building activities</p><p><br/></p><p>Away days off campus</p><p><br/></p><p>A greater acknowledgment of achievements.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not just reward structure-reward level.</p><p><br/></p><p>Laptop replacement. </p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-09-23 11:03:53 UTC</pubDate>
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