AUA Blog
The AUA blog is a space to voice opinion, inform, celebrate and share perspectives of working in higher education administration and management today. Each blog will provide thoughts and ideas from three core outlooks:
Policy, me and my role: what is your opinion or experience of the impact of policy on your role or on HE administration and management more widely? What can others learn from you?
Professional development: knowledge, ideas and tools for furthering a career in higher education and enriching your experience of being a HE professional.
My AUA: covering everything that the AUA has to offer, brought to you from members who have experienced it first-hand.
If you’d like to write a blog for us, please email Laura Harper at laura@aua.ac.uk to express your interest.
Systems Thinking: Tools for strategic problem solving in higher education | AUA Blog
Published on May 9, 2019 by Emma Akinlusi / No Comments
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Over the last decade, I transformed from being an inhabitant of a windy Scottish coastal town as a student where reciting Old English was the norm, to working at one of the largest creative institutio...
Achieving your goals | AUA Blog
Published on May 1, 2019 by Steph O'Halloran / No Comments
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We are all being asked to do more with less these days. The higher education sector in particular is feeling the pinch from, among other things, reduced funding, higher costs and more demanding stud...
Graduating from the PgCert | AUA Blog
Published on Apr 29, 2019 by Laura Roper and Charlotte Cowley / No Comments
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The AUA Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership (PgCert) is a self-directed, independent, work-based learning programme for higher education professional...
Unlocking your potential | AUA Blog
Published on Apr 25, 2019 by Jan Shine / No Comments
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Jan Shine is an experienced people developer, manager, coach and HR specialist. Her wealth of experience in HE has been gained through a successful professional services career at the Open University ...
New challenges, new opportunities | AUA Blog
Published on Apr 5, 2019 by Yulia Grinkevich & Maria Shabanova / No Comments
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A Platform for Exchanging Ideas Each year the world is getting more complicated and less transparent, with the need to get more reliable sources of information than official channels. Meeting people ...
Data driven decision making | AUA Blog
Published on Apr 3, 2019 by Jennie Walmsley MAUA & Paul Hazell / No Comments
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Data driven decision making: why building data capabilities in Higher Education is key In recent years data has pushed its way to the top of the higher education agenda. Unistats and the Teaching Exce...
Demystifying Project Management | AUA Blog
Published on Apr 1, 2019 by Esther Bray / No Comments
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Esther Bray MAUA College Projects Officer Brunel University London Every company I’ve worked for has had something in common, wanting to get things done. The context and challenges have vari...
Yoga and the hokey pokey | AUA Blog
Published on Mar 27, 2019 by Claire Shrewsbury / No Comments
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Claire Shrewsbury MAUA Assistant Registrar | Student Central & Global Programs Division of Student Administration The Australian National University A happy accident Have you got the Sund...
Making Universities Better | AUA Blog
Published on Mar 20, 2019 by Dr. Owen Jones / No Comments
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Dr. Owen Jones Interventionist Vanguard Consulting Ltd The Patience of a Saint? In 1858 John Henry Newman published a series of lectures setting out his vision of how Universities shou...
Achieving Fellowship: engaging with the process | AUA Blog
Published on Mar 18, 2019 by Sara Corcoran / No Comments
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Sara Corcoran FAUA Head of HR Strategy & Change Queen Mary University of London As a new AUA Board Trustee, it seemed only right and proper that I engage with the process to become a Fello...