Meeting the challenges of change

Since I arrived in January, I have been setting out my ideas on the future of Hallam, and have written here about refreshing the University’s strategy. From today, you can find out more about how we will approach this work and keep up to date with developments here. Alongside that, I have been looking hard…

Refreshing the University’s strategy

The University approved a new strategy, for 2015-2020, in late 2014. I was obviously not here, but I’m told that the strategy was the result of extensive consultation across the University over an extended period of time. Since the 2015-2020 strategy was published, any number of things have changed: there has been a general election,…

Vlog – revisiting our Strategy

My update this week takes the form of a short video blog, rather than a written post. No spoilers here, but it’s me answering five questions about refreshing the University Strategy and my ambitions for us as a University:  

Practical solutions to real world problems

This is the third of my blogs which is drawn from my all-staff addresses earlier in February. It sets out my first thoughts – with more to come – on shaping the University in response to the challenges I set out in the previous two blogs. A Vice-Chancellor’s job is essentially simple: it is to…