I was delighted to be invited out to our beautiful Easter Bush Campus at Roslin this week to deliver a session on the hot topic of menopause. We talked about feeling the rage and laughed about losing your nouns. Thank you to everyone who came along. If you would like to organise a session like …
Author: mhighton
to see ourselves as others see us
Does everyone at the University experience our services and the workplace in similar ways? (guest post by Lilinaz Rouhani, Data and Equality Officer) “When I first started in this role, this was my guiding question. I read reports and papers, joined staff networks, and started drafting my own surveys to find an answer to this …
to see ourselves as others see us
Does everyone at the University experience our services and the workplace in similar ways? (guest post by Lilinaz Rouhani, Data and Equality Officer) “When I first started in this role, this was my guiding question. I read reports and papers, joined staff networks, and started drafting my own surveys to find an answer to this …
AI and ethics, welcoming our robot colleagues
I am delighted that this summer we have 2 student interns working in LTW to help us understand how Chat GPT and Open AIs can help us in our work. We have long welcomed our robot colleagues. We already use AI in our transcriptions and captioning services to add speech to text versions for students, …
AI and ethics, welcoming our robot colleagues
I am delighted that this summer we have 2 student interns working in LTW to help us understand how Chat GPT and Open AIs can help us in our work. We have long welcomed our robot colleagues. We already use AI in our transcriptions and captioning services to add speech to text versions for students, …
discussing the work at Leeds ( way back)
I was in Leeds again this week. It’s always nice to visit and I do get a wee bit nostalgic for places and times passed. I worked at Leeds 2001-8. One of the things we did back then was to develop institutional services for blogging, podcasting and wiki-ing. I called it ‘LeedsFeeds’. We also had …
Data and Equality Officer
I am gutted to lose my current Data and Equality Officer, she’s been excellent and has rightly moved to greater things. But I’m recruiting for a new one.
apply before 14th July
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athena swan insights
I am spending some time assessing Athena Swan Applications. It is making me ponder a lot of things. Guidance for giving feedback is to focus on what is included, not what is missing. Here are some: The experiences of professional staff are given very little attention and seem to be poorly understood. particularly in relation …
athena swan insights
I am spending some time assessing Athena Swan Applications. It is making me ponder a lot of things. Guidance for giving feedback is to focus on what is included, not what is missing. Here are some: The experiences of professional staff are given very little attention and seem to be poorly understood. particularly in relation …
on your marks
According to some recent on- the-ground research this is the list of tools being used by schools at University of Edinburgh for summative assessment and marking (below) Some Schools have tried to standardise their assessment practices as much as possible, making things more consistent for students, markers and teaching office staff. In these Schools, the …
on your marks
According to some recent on- the-ground research this is the list of tools being used by schools at University of Edinburgh for summative assessment and marking (below) Some Schools have tried to standardise their assessment practices as much as possible, making things more consistent for students, markers and teaching office staff. In these Schools, the …
the change you can see
I asked my excellent Data and Equality Officer to look at our demographics again. I wanted to know if my attempts to diversify the LTW workforce by sex, ethnicity and age were having an impact. She looked at data since 2015. The group has grown about 50%. From 100 in 2015 to 155 in 2022. …