University Information Services - Staff Learning & Development course timetable

The Content Community is providing four workshops on Monday 31 July to learn new skills or refresh existing ones.

During this session find out how you can improve your users' experience by making it easier to find the things they want most.

Led by content designers Lana Bozovic and Lizzie Bruce from UIS.

See related courses below.

My Cambridge Application is a ‘Go’ for launch in September for the 2024 admissions cycle.

Join us online for an overview of the project and what to expect from the September release.

We'll walk you through the application process and the improvements we've made to make it easier to complete, understand, administer, audit and trust. We'll cover:

• our vision and goals for My Cambridge Application
• what we have delivered and what that means for applicants and colleges
• what will be delivered post launch, and what will be done by the 2025 admissions cycle
• show the video walk through for My Cambridge Application
• take any questions

Find out more about Digital Admissions and the My Cambridge Application project: https://universityofcambridgecloud.sharepoint.com/sites/UoC_DigitalAdmissions

The Content Community is providing four workshops on Monday 31 July to learn new skills or refresh existing ones.

During this session find out how you can improve your users' experience by making it easier to find the things they want most.

Led by content designers Lana Bozovic and Lizzie Bruce from UIS.

See related courses below.

UIS is offering everyone the chance to join a virtual speed mentoring event. This dynamic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from diverse disciplines.

UIS mentors involved with the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Beata Oxlade – Business Systems Team Lead
• Kate Livingstone – Head of Digital Transformation
• Richard Hey – Head of Institution Liaison and Relationship Management
• Adam Decan – Principal DevOps Engineer
• Jon Holgate – Head of Infrastructure

A workshop exclusively for UIS colleagues who have been nominated to be buddies to support our new joiners.

UIS facilitates a mentoring scheme exclusively for the University's IT community and UIS' internal staff.

Mentoring can be a handy tool in supporting colleagues to develop their professional lives and careers, in both roles as a mentor and mentee.

This is a welcome event (Unit 3) and part of the UIS' Mentoring learning journey, for all mentees and mentors enrolled in the 20223-24 programme. This interactive workshop is designed to give an overview and introduction to mentoring, practice some essential skills needed for mentors and mentees, mistakes to avoid, and become familiar with some simple models and tools to support the mentoring partnership and maximise its value and impact.

The Aspiring Managers Programme provides a structured pathway for colleagues preparing for their first supervisory/line management roles. It fosters the development of crucial skills, including effective feedback, handling challenging conversations, and utilizing leadership styles. The programme incorporates facilitators' input; opportunities for discussion, case studies, reflection, and sharing good practice with others moving into similar roles. It also includes curated e-learning resources to support colleagues' ongoing learning and development.

Participants are required to attend both half-day sessions.

The Aspiring Managers Programme provides a structured pathway for colleagues preparing for their first supervisory/line management roles. It fosters the development of crucial skills, including effective feedback, handling challenging conversations, and utilizing leadership styles. The programme incorporates facilitators' input; opportunities for discussion, case studies, reflection, and sharing good practice with others moving into similar roles. It also includes curated e-learning resources to support colleagues' ongoing learning and development.

Participants are required to attend both half-day sessions.

As part of the UIS Wellbeing initiative, we are very pleased to invite Hisham Ziauddeen a Clinical Senior Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and the University’s Wellbeing and Disability Champion to deliver a talk on 'Optimising Brain Functioning'. He is a consultant psychiatrist working in early intervention in psychosis.

He will talk about how we model our minds and how we manage the cost of mental functioning. He will particularly discuss the impact of work and other stress and the phenomenon of burnout. These are complex problems that have got even more complex with COVID-19 and they don’t have simple solutions but there are some ways we can ease them.

The 4 March is University Mental Health Day which aims to bring together the university community to make mental health a university-wide priority and create ongoing year round change to the future of our mental health. Now more than ever it's important to get the nation talking about our mental health.

Both staff and students are welcome to join the live event.

A workshop exclusively for UIS colleagues who have been nominated to be buddies to support our new joiners.