Wednesday 19 March
Embedding an empowered values focused culture in order to support team workplace health and wellbeing
Alison Harding, Executive Head of Library and Learning Resources, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Within higher education the standard approach to staff wellbeing is often around isolated short term solutions, usually developed at a senior university level without broader staff engagement. In addition, the staff experience is very rarely seen in the context of student experience and wellbeing, even though research tells us that they are closely linked.
In embedding a values-based reflective learning culture within a departmental leadership leadership group I would like to explore how this has supported the longer term wellbeing of the wider team, and also strengthened the talent management and succession planning priorities of my own leadership journey.
Are you ready for Generation AI?
Michelle Craig, Director of Marketing, AppsAnywhere
Four years from now the first Generation Alpha students will join the ranks of your institution. Born in 2010, the year the iPad and Instagram were launched, today’s 14-year-olds are the most digitally connected generation.
While not everyone can agree on what the future brings for Gen Alpha, as some of them are yet to be born, and 1 in 5 are still in nappies, what is certain is that their world is online. Gen Alpha use ChatGPT as their main search engine, are tech-savvy, and spend more time socialising online than face to face.
To remain attractive and relevant to what will be the largest generation in history, higher education institutions must adapt or risk disengaging them. Join this session to learn more about the profile and expectations of Gen Alpha, and the areas you need to address now, to prepare for welcoming the new generation of students and support their future success.
Lessons from a University Merger in Australia: Putting curriculum management first
Professor Carol Miles - Project Lead, Curriculum Management System Implementation and Clare Forde - Senior Project Manager, Curriculum Management System Implementation, Adelaide University (Australia); Nathalie Stanford, Product Lead, Global IT Factory (Australia); Sarah Beresford - Director of Partnerships, Global IT Factory (UK)
As Australia’s first major new university established in this century, Adelaide University will open in 2026 representing a merger between South Australia’s two largest universities. Delivering Australia’s most accessible and contemporary curriculum to over 70,000 students, it will be one of Australia’s largest. The new university has bold ambitions to ride high in the top echelons of the world rankings as a global education and research powerhouse.
When the decision to merge the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia was made in mid-2023, the first strategic action was to determine the core technologies required. Acknowledging the development of a brand new, contemporary curriculum, a digitised curriculum management system was given the highest priority. The core CMS was rapidly implemented to enable the University’s official web presence at the University's launch in July 2024.
This session will address:
- Why a CMS was the foremost critical system deployed for the new university
- The impact of implementing the CMS first over other core university systems
- How this strategic technology decision delivered strategically aligned curricular innovation
- Key outcomes for staff and students
- Challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned along the way
