The ability to keep constantly attuned to members’ needs and anticipate the changing external environment has been a key challenge that UCEA has risen to thanks to the officers working with members through so many different remote channels.
But what I do hope is that members appreciate how 19 of us (seven of whom are part-time) deliver such a wide range of services to our 170 member organisations. I am not going to (re)introduce all my colleagues and what you should be contacting them for when a page on our excellent website does that for us. As will be the case at your organisation, many of us have yet to meet some of our own new colleagues in person and not just via a laptop screen. Without the meeting and greeting opportunities at events and meetings and the occasional treasured campus visits, this blog is an attempt to encourage members to get to know UCEA’s valued staff, both old (steady!) and new.
When we can be assured of the safety of running events in person again, our member events and meetings programme will offer a range of formats designed to increase the accessibility (and affordability) to as wide a group of participants as possible. A great deal to cover in the short time available so, following the success and popularity of this online GTMFU (just when you thought you knew all the HE acronyms!), we are already planning to host another one soon.Īfter more than a year of holding our successful events, meetings and working online it could be easy to forget the obvious and hidden merits of face-to-face alternatives. While the event was initially aimed at individual members who were ‘new to sector’, we soon realised that many of our longer serving colleagues had moved into new roles and had also signed up, interested to learn more about UCEA’s ever-evolving range of services.įor those who couldn’t make the event, the areas of our work which we covered included HR policy advice, the multi-employer pay negotiations, our research, surveys and benchmarking on reward and workforce issues, sector pensions support, the employment of clinical academics, health and safety, and communications support. More than fifty members joined us at the first such event in more than a year and we tried to deliver as much ‘about UCEA’ as possible in the limited time slot.
In late March, with our weary eyes blinking into the flickering lights of hope as we emerged from the winter lockdown, UCEA hosted a 90-minute ‘Getting the most from UCEA membership’ webinar. By Andy Fryer, UCEA’s Head of Communications and Membership
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