People 9 New IT training opportunities


Staff and postgraduate students can get tips and training on using the latest technology to support their work through the University’s newly expanded IT Training team.


This term, IT Training has launched a range of new training courses through Information Systems Services, overhauled its website and delivered new online training videos. The team has also established a regular IT Training Clinic and is offering technology taster sessions hosted by Learning and Development.


There are also plans to expand the number of online training videos and screencasts available and the team would welcome ideas on what staff and students want covered.


Team changes include appointing Vicky Samways as IT Training Co-ordinator, with IT Training Manager Jerry Reid, continuing to work on a part-time basis until he retires next year. Sally Swaine has also been appointed as IT Marketing Assistant to further promote IT training opportunities.


Professional Services


Strategic Planning and Change Section Dr Daniela Wachsening, Governance Officer; Kevin Ling, Senior Planning Officer; Richard Harrison, Head of Strategic Projects and Change.


Academic Section Eva Svabova, Administrative Assistant (Course records); Hannah Myatt, Project Officer, Employability and Careers Centre; George Myburgh, Wellbeing Administrator/ Personal Assistant, Student Support.


Communications and External Relations Sally Lambe, Student Recruitment and Marketing Officer; Charlotte Bailey, Senior Admissions Adviser.


Estate Management


Lauren McGrath, Business Administration Apprentice; Christopher Alexander, Steve Godwin, Michael Lynch, Rosemarie Moore, Colin Paris, Car Parking Assistants.


Human Resources Jessyca Muldoon, HR Officer; Matthew Reynolds, Learning and Development Adviser; Alisha Haxby, Occupational Health Adminstrator; Mandy Mackinnon, Payroll and Pensions Administrator.


Information Systems Services Bradley Imrie and Joshua Richardson, Apprentice AV and IT Technicians.


New courses include Prezi Presentations, EndNote, Moodle: Intelligent Course Design and OCS for Administrators and Academics. New training videos on the Listen Again service, AVS, Moodle, EndNote and PowerPoint are available at: youtube.com/uniessexit.


Check Twitter and the Daily Bulletin for updates.


T 01206 872582 E ittraining@essex.ac.uk www.essex.ac.uk/it/training


@uoe_ittraining Stones set for Australia


After 22 years with the Department of Sociology Professor Rob Stones is leaving this month to take up a Professorship at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. Professor Stones has held a number of key departmental posts and was Head of Department from 2004 to 2007. He is currently the Faculty Dean of Social Sciences.


Albert Sloman Library Catherine Kafala and Gwenfron Kent, Library Student Assistants.


Research and Enterprise Office Dr Liqun Yang, Research and Enterprise Manager; Daniel Williamson, Research Impact Officer.


Campus Services


Kerry McGuire, Housekeeper, John Clare, Caretaker, Hinna Kazmi, Rachel Small, Receptionists, Accommodation Essex; Shelley Hall, Sports Supervisor, Justin Mills, Strength and Conditioning Coach, Sports Centre; Georgina Goswell, Marion Kelly, Kim Sherman, Michelle Gilkes, Verity Street, Nursery Nurses, Day Nursery; April Hatcher, Marketing Officer, Marketing and Business Development.


Wivenhoe House Hotel Megan Alford, Shelley Newbon, Administration Assistants; Beverley Newman, Darren Fordham, Lucy Taylor, Waiting/Bar Staff; Hannah Thompson, Receptionist/Reservationist; Rebecca Boswick, Nichola Duke, Housekeepers; Jordan Sidwell, Chef de Partie; James Wadham, Matthew Clarke, Commis Chef; Alexander Tidd, Kitchen Porter.


The University also appointed 121 contracted casual staff, 232 graduate teaching staff, 15 invigilators, 139 part-time teachers and 39 student ambassadors.


Professor David Sanders


60-second interview


Professor David Sanders


Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) and Faculty of Social Sciences.


How long have you worked at the University? 39 years.


Give us an idea of what you’ve been doing this week Attending working party meetings on, for example, the faculty structure; meeting with individual members of staff to discuss their projects and problems; organising assessments of postdoctoral fellowships for the British Academy; reviewing applications for a chair in Politics at Cambridge; preparing a presentation on the University’s Research Strategy for the Senior Staff Conference this week.


Tell us three things you like about working at the University... The students, the staff, the Colchester Campus – and especially its 1960s buildings.


... and one you don’t


Having to spend most of my spare time every day fighting e-mails.


What advice would you give to a new member of staff?


Be enthusiastic in your dealings with students. If you’re required to do research as part of your contract, make sure you publish the requisite number of high quality pieces that the University needs for you to be submitted in the REF.


Finally, tell us a fascinating fact about yourself My favourite relaxation is playing folk music in north Essex pubs.


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