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University Registrars Talking About Stuff

A series of podcasts in which two Registrars (or similar) talk about higher ed stuff. Hosted by Dr Paul Greatrix, the podcast has a lot to offer for everyone working in universities and colleges. Higher education is a wonderful and frightening world and university Registrars (and others) have much to say about most of it. Across the 50 episodes in Season 1 and into Season 2 there is much to enjoy and learn from a wide range of sector leaders in the UK and beyond.

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S1 Ep50: Episode 50: Acronymphilia - from FEC to HERA...

University Registrars Talking About Stuff ·

2023/01/09

The latest episode of the podcast (number 50! who would have thought we would make it this far) features Chris Hale, Director of Policy at Universities UK. Chris is not a registrar but is very well placed to talk about registrar-related stuff. We learn about his current role in policy and his career trajectory post graduation which saw him fill a number of temporary positions at Sussex University, the GMC and indeed UUK where he went on to secure a permanent role and has remained ever since. In

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S1 Ep49: Episode 49: Spoons, Zombies and Fancy Gowns

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2022/11/30

The latest episode of the podcast sees me talking about stuff with Mike Shore-Nye who is Registrar and Secretary at the University of Exeter. We talk about Mike's role at the university and his title, which now has a classic feel to it but means that it requires some explanation, particularly to those not familiar with university administration. We learn that he has a rather good Registrarial gown too. After graduation Mike worked for both Majestic Wine and Wetherspoon's before joining the HE

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S1 Ep48: Episode 48: "A newspaper for people who work...

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2022/10/17

In this episode of the podcast, a longer one this time as there is so much to talk about, I'm joined by someone who is not a Registrar but the founder, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Wonkhe, Mark Leach. We start with Mark's time as a student and subsequently sabbatical officer at the University of Kent where he first became fascinated with university committees and bureaucracy. Mark credits Wes Streeting, at that time the Vice-President for Education at NUS, for making policy wonkery sexy and

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S1 Ep47: Episode 47: From Collaborative Cornwall to...

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2022/10/11

For the latest episode of the podcast I have the great pleasure of talking to Niamh Lamond who is Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at Swansea University. Niamh has enjoyed a long career in higher education covering several of the Celtic corners of the sector including Cornwall, Northern Ireland and South Wales. She spent a significant period in Falmouth as part of an institution which grew rapidly from a college into a university, crucially as part of the Combined Universities in Cornwall

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S1 Ep46: Episode 46: From fighting fees to supporting...

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2022/09/27

In this latest edition of the podcast I talk to Aaron Porter, a consultant extraordinaire and floating higher education all rounder. We explore at some length Aaron's years as a student leader in NUS, first as Vice-President at a time of strong partnership working with politicians and HE agencies, then followed by year as President in 2010-11 during what was one of the most turbulent of periods for the sector and the student movement. Following a change of government and publication of the Browne

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S1 Ep45: Episode 45: London Universities 0 -...

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2022/09/21

Episode 45 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff features Chris Ince who is University Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer at the University of Hull. We discuss this distinctive title (not quite unique in the sector) and the particular role Chris plays which has real logic to it given the way that the external regulatory environment has grown and the extended responsibilities of governing bodies in England under the OfS. Chris has had an interesting career journey from sabbatical

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S1 Ep44: Episode 44: Building a new university...

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2022/09/06

For episode 44 of the podcast I have the privilege of talking to Hugh Martin, Registrar and Chief Administrative Officer at the British University in Dubai. We review Hugh's career trajectory, which saw him starting in business but then moving into a series of university positions, in a variety of different roles. One of the most interesting of these was the Chief of Staff role, first at St Andrews and then at LSE - this was new and distinctive in UK then but has become much more common albeit

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S1 Ep43: Episode 43: Warming up an HE cold spot and...

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2022/08/23

In this, the 43rd episode of the University Registrars Talking About Stuff podcast, I am delighted to be talking to James Rolfe who is Chief Operating Officer at Anglia Ruskin University. James joined Anglia Ruskin some four years ago after an unusual career journey which began in the civil service in Whitehall in the 90s before leading him to a role in social services in Norfolk and then as a senior manager at Enfield Council. We explore some of the differences and similarities with HE with James

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S1 Ep42: Episode 42: Emergency services, student...

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2022/06/13

For episode 42 of the podcast I am in conversation with Khadir Meer, Chief Operating Officer, Registrar and Clerk to the Board at SOAS, University of London. Unusually for the podcast this is the first time we have talked too so it's an interesting way to meet. Khadir has only been in the role for nine months having previously worked as COO and Deputy Chief Executive of the London Ambulance Service. Working in the NHS during the pandemic was clearly hugely challenging and stressful and Khadir was

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S1 Ep41: Episode 41: From farmer's boy to...

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2022/05/26

In episode 41 of the podcast I talk about stuff with a notable sector leader, Professor Craig Mahoney who is Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Law. From growing up on a farm in Tasmania Craig came to the UK to study, ending up at Queen's University Belfast to complete his doctorate before taking up a series of academic posts and ultimately becoming Principal and Vice-Chancellor at the University of the West of Scotland, a post he held for eight years. Craig rightly feels a

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S1 Ep40: Episode 40: Geology, gloom avoidance and...

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2022/05/03

Episode 40 (I can't quite believe we've made it to number 40) finds me in conversation with Dr Tim Bradshaw, Chief Executive of the Russell Group. We hear about Tim's very much unplanned career journey from a geology PhD to presenting to a US Senate Committee and then policy work in the House of Lords and the CBI before moving to a succession of roles in the Russell Group. Tim advises that the Russell Group, which comprises 24 research intensive universities, is concerned primarily with helping

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S1 Ep39: Episode 39: From UK universities to...

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2022/04/26

In episode 39 of the podcast I am really pleased to be speaking to Alistair Jarvis, Chief Executive of Universities UK. We begin by looking back at Alistair's career journey which started out with a sabbatical role at Kent before moving into a number of roles which catered for his taste in public policy and higher education. These included a stint as director of communications for the now defunct 1994 group and, following that, a period at the University of Birmingham as Director of Communications

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S1 Ep38: Episode 38: Developing a new university in...

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2022/04/19

In another international outing for the podcast this episode is brought to you via Finland from where I am joined by the first Chief Financial Officer I've spoken to on the podcast, Marianna Bom of Aalto University. We begin by exploring Marianna's career journey, from her first post graduation role working for an elevator company before moving to Nokia, where her strength in Russian language saw her setting up operations in Moscow, before spending some time based in Colombia. Having become tired of

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S1 Ep37: Episode 37: From Scotland to the world and...

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2022/03/19

In this edition of the podcast I talk to Wendy Alexander, Vice-Principal International at the University of Dundee, about her remarkable career, her university's international activities, student life after the pandemic and the future direction of higher education in Scotland and the UK. Wendy's career has taken her around many parts of the world both as a student and in work but it has always had a connection with higher education one way or another. That consistent thread of HE has run through

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S1 Ep36: Episode 36: The strategic deployment of...

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2022/03/12

In Episode 36 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff I have the opportunity to chat with Jackie Njoroge who is Director of Strategy at the University of Salford. We learn about Jackie's position as Director of Strategy which represents a distinctive and wide-ranging role and one she hugely enjoys. Discussing her unusual career journey we hear how she started out with British Steel in Corby on a graduate entry finance track before a move to a portacabin in even more glamorous Hartlepool where

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S1 Ep35: Episode 35: Scandinavian perspectives: a...

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2022/02/28

Episode 35 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff is another international edition, this time featuring Martin Melkersson, Chief Operating Officer at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Martin is the first Swedish COO I've talked to about stuff here and we learn firstly about his 10 years at SLU and his broad-ranging role, covering all non-academic matters at the University before hearing about a career journey which saw him starting out as a budding academic at Uppsala

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S1 Ep34: Episode 34: Changing places - from the RAF...

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2022/01/09

In Episode 34 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff I have an interesting half hour chatting about stuff with Steve Knight who has been Chief Operating Officer at the University of Sunderland for six years now. Steve has had a distinctive career journey which started with a 26 year stint in the RAF followed by time at Middlesex University and in the private sector before arriving at Sunderland. We explore the cultural differences and also, perhaps surprisingly, the many similarities

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S1 Ep33: Episode 33: State of the nation - university...

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2021/12/05

In this edition of the podcast I have a really enjoyable chat with Patrick Hackett who is Registrar, Secretary and COO at the University of Manchester. We learn first about Patrick's career journey from architect to working in estates at Royal Holloway and then to Reading followed by a spell of consultancy before a 13 year stint at Liverpool University and then the move to Manchester, each time broadening his remit. The importance of the estate to universities is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a hot

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S1 Ep32: Episode 32: Going Dutch - Higher Ed...

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2021/11/07

For this Episode, number 32 in the series of University Registrars Talking About Stuff, I had the privilege of talking about stuff to Stephan van Galen of Groningen University in the Netherlands. We caught up for an in person (in person!) chat at recent HUMANE Winter School where both of us were presenting case studies on our universities and their approaches to internationalisation. We naturally began with Stephan's career history before moving on to the value of the HUMANE Winter School and

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S1 Ep31: Episode 31: The Tyne of his life -...

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2021/10/23

This latest episode of University Registrars Talking About Stuff provides an extremely welcome return for Newcastle University's legendary Registrar Dr John Hogan. Back in Episode 9 John and I talked, among other things, about stuff such as the impact of cuts in the 80s, the experience of working at the University of Warwick, life under lockdown and financial challenges ahead for the sector. This time John once again demonstrates his passion for effective university management across a wide range

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