UoP Change

What another cracking weekend we had, perfect for the tomatoes ☀️hope everyone had a good one and stayed socially distant with lots of suncream on too! Bring on Monday morning

It is mental health awareness week, taking time for yourself and finding those moments of calm are key any day of the year, where is your calm spot? This is one of ours up at Harford on Dartmoor

We might not be back in Mast House but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate the view over Plymouth Sound ❤️

Workshops look very different now on Zoom with breakout rooms rather than our working space in a mast House and sticky notes on process maps, have you got any top tips for ensuring the delivery of a good online workshop?

Need a little reminder or some extra help with working from home? New pages have been added to the working from home team site, get yourself a cuppa tea or gin with tea and embrace national tea day

What a superb Easter Break- even in quarantine! The weather was amazing but Tuesday is here so back to meetings, ROG and Steering group week- bring it on 🤓💪

Where did your fresh air break take you over the weekend? One of our team walked along the two moors track, that bright spot right in the middle of the picture is Plymouth Sound where our office Mast House also overlooks from Sutton Harbour

Happy birthday to you!

Techno team chat

We are hosting four workshops all about change methodology on Monday 16th March
Book your place now or need more information email [email protected]

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If you didn’t know we are not based on the main university campus but down in Sutton Harbour in Mast House, if you want to see what we are all about join us for a day of change mentality workshops on Monday 16th March- we promise the walk is worth it! Email is for more information [email protected]

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We want to hear your ideas, stories, suggestions about your experiences with any of the following processes:
Student support meeting, Attendance check in, Managing post grad research fees and many more, email us at [email protected] or join us on 16th March for a workshop all around change mentality and tell us all about it then!

John Ward has been part of RaFT from the very beginning.
Tell us a little about your background John?
I’ve been fortunate enough to work in the public, private and voluntary sectors in and around Plymouth since 1985. Since 2006 I have been increasingly involved in change management and change leadership development activities, within the contexts of organisational process and culture change.I started working for the University in July 2018, as part of the HR Performance and Change team. I was delighted to secure a role in UoP as I was impressed with its creative, yet common sense approach to making change stick using the knowledge, skills and abilities of its own people. For the first 12 months I supported the Local Improvement Project (LIP) training and UoP change community until July 2019 when I moved into the RaFT project.
What are you doing for the RaFT project at the moment?
My role is to support the RaFT Project objective to involve staff and students from all areas in creating and delivering on the change that affects them. I’m currently leading on a number of work activities looking at RaFT engagement and communications, academic and professional services change leadership and also our regular fortnightly Message in a Bottle updates.

Meet Roland Monger, Roland has been part of the RaFT since the very beginning.
What are you up to at the moment Roland?
I am currently following up on projects looking at Attendance Monitoring and the Doctoral College whilst progressing with the area of Marks & Assessments. My future CLIPs will include looking at UKVI/CAS issuing, Module Choices and the Appeals Process. I am looking forward to working with colleagues across the University to find savings and efficiencies across these processes to improve the student and staff experience.
Tell us a little more about yourself Roland?
I have been at the University of Plymouth since 2013 and have been based in Student Recruitment & Admissions as part of the management team attached to Admissions and Business Development. One of my main projects was to integrate the Salesforce CRM system with all facets of the recruitment and admissions process which helped to vastly improve the applicant and staff experience. Plymouth is the sixth University I have worked at around the UK but this is my home town university so I am passionate about making this the best version of itself this institution can be.

Walking the talk during out team time and using our new technology down at Mast House this week

UoP Change updated their business hours.

We are down at the Student Service in Rolle Marquee, we want to hear your voice!

Today the RaFT team hosted another CLIP regarding End Dates down at Mast House, thank you to everyone who attended

Student Change Improvement Network (SCIN) is looking for students so we can hear your voice 🗣 we want to hear about your experiences with appeals process, UKVI/international students, finding information online and many more....
Contact us on [email protected]

We are definitely feeling the storm today in the office down at Mast House!

It's now easier to email UoP Change

RaFT team are holding a one day event on Thursday 5th March for the Student Change and Improvement Network, if you would like to sign up to any of the workshops or all, then email us on [email protected]