During our departmental staff meeting on Monday 20th April 2020, we discussed the accountability structure for our department. A video of the meeting can be found here (password: 7R=.%+5+). The presentation can be found here and is broken down below with additional notes from the presentation.
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- The leadership team have been considering our three-year strategy, and our long-term vision, alongside the University's work in developing its strategy.
- Environmental sustainability is a huge part of the university's long-term strategy.
- A key part of our strategic review action plan is to look at how we can free up more time for colleagues to carry out research.
- We have recruited a few additional professional support roles already but we hope there will be more in the future (unlikely to be in the very short term).
- Our aim is to focus on being working as a team. The new accountability structure will make responsibilities clear and encourage people to feel empowered to make decisions within the structure.
- There will be different levels of accountability; this will allow us to be more efficient, agile and proactive.
- We are looking to increase our visibility within the university, nationally and internationally in line with our long-term vision.
- This is a work-in-progress and we welcome feedback.
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To allow us to collate all of your comments together in one place, please provide us feedback using this very simple Google Form. We are very keen to hear from colleagues.
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