Coaching for UEA Staff - celebrating our 50th application
We are offering another opportunity for any member of UEA staff to work with a coach, to help think through topics like: undertaking a new role; managing a team; dealing with challenging work relationships; introducing changes to working practices or introducing a new idea; developing your job in innovative ways. We have found that coaching can often help with all these and more.
Coaching is a partnership that helps clients achieve fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, people learn more about themselves and their goals, improve their performance and can enhance the quality of their daily life.
UEA coaches are members of staff, trained to use their coaching skills to help people and do not rely upon having had the same experiences.
The UEA coaching programme has been in operation since June 2009.
If you are interested in finding out about being allocated a coach, please visit the coaching programme web pages on the CSED website at https://intranet.uea.ac.uk/csed/coaching where all the information can be viewed and downloaded.
MA in Higher Education (MA-HEP) staffing
The MA-HEP programme currently has over 300 enrolments and this has put severe strains on current staffing levels. Consequently Faculties have agreed to release 0.5 of a serving academic to work on the MA-HEP programme. This will mean an overall increase of two full time members of staff, with each of the faculties having direct input into the programme. This will considerably strengthen the MA-HEP because it will give us a much greater disciplinary reach and enable us to work closely with, and give better fine-grained support to, those new academics starting out on their careers. Discussions with individuals are now well advanced. CSED is pleased to announce that the Faculty of Health secondment will be Rod Lambert (AHP) and the Faculty of Social Sciences will be represented by Claudina Richards (LAW). Secondments from the remaining two faculties will be made known shortly.
Personal Safety
Following a request for us to put on the above session which ran last year, we would like to gauge interest with a view to running it again in the spring semester. If you would be interested in attending please contact Michelle Jones in CSED: michelle.jones@uea.ac.uk
We live and work in a safe region, but rather than be complacent we can always do more to make ourselves safer while out and about. Targets of street theft / assault are almost always selected, rather than picked at random, and this session offers clear, practical advice about making yourself even less likely to be the target of unwanted attention, partly by seeing yourself and your valuables from the point of view of a potential assailant. The session covers what to do, and what not to do.
Aims
- To demonstrate how to avoid looking and behaving like a target by showing what one looks like from the assailant’s point of view.
- To demonstrate how much we can do to avoid a confrontation.
- To demonstrate what to do if a situation threatens to become physical.
- To demonstrate how to minimise loss and injury.
Basic self defence will be discussed and demonstrated but this is not a self defence course.
LGBT Heroes Quiz
The UEA Staff Pride Group have chosen twelve Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Heroes to remember during LGBT History Month 2012. These people are heroes for many different reasons; fighting for lgbt rights, pushing boundaries, sporting achievements, writing, defence of our country, music etc. A display of the Heroes will be on show in Union House, LaRC (Library) and in the new first floor of Chancellor's Drive Annexe during February 2012.
The quiz, along with details of the heroes, will be on the CSED website at www.uea.ac.uk/csed/lgbt between 1st and 29th February 2012. Anyone (except UEA Pride Members) may enter, and CSED have donated a fabulous prize of CDs, DVD and Books by or about some of our LGBT Heroes.
We hope the quiz will help raise awareness of LGBT issues. Things have greatly improved for LGBT people in our society but there are still inequalities, injustices, prejudices and persecution. LGBT people are just the same as everyone else, but some are heroes.
Learning & Teaching Day 2012
Preparations are underway for the sixth UEA Learning and Teaching Day which is to be held on Tuesday 15th May 2012 in the Thomas Paine Study Centre. Please make a note in your diaries.