Delivery plans and updates

Ambition 1

PD transformation

• Plan Away Day that enables all staff to influence early thinking on new P&C strategy.
  

Anti-harassment and discrimination 

• Conduct consultation on draft staff / student relationships.
• Work with Gather & Gather to put in place appropriate training and communications for contracted staff working on campus.
• Continue drafting content and planning for launch of comprehensive web pages on anti-harassment.
• Continue to review and develop anti-harassment training for different groups of staff.

Wellbeing/stress management 

• Support Mental Health Awareness Week and University Wellness Week.
• Finalise Stress Risk Assessment.

Ambition 1 

PD transformation 

• Delivered Away Day as planned.

Anti-harassment and discrimination 

• A comprehensive consultation on the Staff/Student Relationships policy is complete, and the task and finish group has agreed on a version for sign-off by the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). 
• Content is drafted for the new anti-harassment webpages which are ready to be launched in early August. 
• Training for staff ‘likely to receive disclosures from students’ has been developed in collaboration with the university ISVA. We are also working with Ciphr to develop all staff e-learning training on anti-harassment and sexual misconduct. 

Wellbeing/stress management

• Communication and activities run in support of Mental Health Awareness Week and University Wellness Week.
• The HSWSC reviewed the University-level Stress Risk Assessment and recommended a proposal to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for mandatory stress awareness e-learning for all managers.

Ambition 2

Strengthen capabilities to transform educational practice & enhance inclusive digitally enabled curriculum development

• Support EXPLORE Taught and Experiential participants to the successful completion of Advance HE Fellowship submissions.
• Evaluate and update the IDEAS portfolio of resources and activities.
• Celebrate and disseminate Brookes’ best Academic Advising practice at the Brookes international teaching and learning conference ‘Academic Advising: Nurturing the will to learn’ (June).
• Review the Academic Advising Policy.

Leadership and management

• Roll out the new Leadership and Management development offer.

Performance Management

• Continue to scope PDR review and run new career development workshops.

Ambition 2

Strengthen capabilities to transform educational practice & enhance inclusive digitally enabled curriculum development

• We supported colleagues through the EXPLORE Taught and Experiential routes, with over 100 Fellowship submissions completed across all categories, including 6 for Principal Fellowship,17 for Senior Fellowship and 69 for Fellowship via the accredited taught route. 48 colleagues continued their professional development via the non-accredited pathways. 
• IDEAS Tool kit revised and refreshed student student-authored design ‘question sets’ ready to be uploaded to the web pages August 1st.
• We showcased Brookes’ academic advising practice at our international teaching and learning conference, with over 250 registrants and participation from 16 countries.
• Academic Advising Policy review complete.

Leadership and management

• New Leadership and Management development offer rolled out including a range of new workshops and programmes.

Performance Management 

• Range of engagement activities including a survey, engagement sessions and attendance at Faculty and Directorate senior leadership team meetings to inform review of PDR. 
• New Career Development Workshops introduced.

Ambition 3

Staff engagement

• Communicate webinar plans for year.
• Develop and implement staff suggestions channel.
• Run further webinars / focus groups following up on staff survey to inform development of next P&C strategy.

Recognition

• Run ACE scheme.

• Launch academic promotions round for 2025.

Ambition 3 

Staff engagement

• Focus shifted to delivering more interactive hybrid sessions in support of Professional Services Transformation and, in Faculties, the Portfolio Transformation. Other planned activities remain relevant and important and will roll over to next quarter.

Recognition

• Revised ACE scheme launched with further resources/guidance to support colleagues. 
• Progression to SL scheme 2025 launched with further resources/guidance to support colleagues. Academic promotions rounds under way, with familiarisation session well-attended and a large number of applications received. 

Ambition 4

Workload planning

• Review progress in monitoring workload at April meeting.
• Finalise Workload Planning Google Site.

Campus changes

• Continue to support staff engagement of Harcourt Hill move.

Strategic Transformation Programme

• Run webinar to raise awareness of Professional Services Transformation.

Ambition 4

Workload planning

• First round of monitoring of WLP’s conducted at WLPC.

• WLP Google Site finalised.

Campus changes

• Engagement sessions continued locally and lessons learned exercise planned.

Strategic Transformation Programme

• Session ran as planned.

What else did we do

• New Recruitment and Selection Webpages including comprehensive Hiring Managers guidance following last year’s review of Recruitment and Selection.
• Development of new e-learning module to support the implementation of the new Supporting Grievances at Work Policy.
• Started planning pulse surveys for summer and next iteration of staff survey.
• Finalised contract and provision with Tusker to provide electric car leasing via salary sacrifice. 

What didn’t we do?

• Anti-Harassment and Discrimination: Work with Gather & Gather has not progressed. However, a priority has been agreed for next academic year to create a specific working group exploring the impact of our anti-harassment work on partners and third parties, including contractors. 
• Staff Engagement: Staff suggestions channel and publication of webinar series.