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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 Ep30: Episode 30 - The Registrar's baton, life...

University Registrars Talking About Stuff ·

2021/09/03

In the latest episode of University Registrars Talking About Stuff it is my great pleasure to talk to Ken Sloan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Senior Vice-President (Enterprise and Governance) at Monash University in Australia. As is customary we start by exploring Ken's varied career journey, from an initial brush with accountancy before a typically varied career at the University of Warwick, including an overlap with me at the government-inspired National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, NAGTY,

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S1 Ep29: Episode 29: From fish research to the dark...

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2021/07/18

In Episode 29 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff I chat with Jim McGeorge who is University Secretary and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Dundee. We discuss Jim's career which took him from a PhD in Fish parasitology to administrative roles at Abertay, Stirling and Dundee as he moved from academic work to the 'dark side'. He shares how he actually enjoyed the administrative aspects of academia rather than actual research but does feel that he is now in a position where he is

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S1 Ep28: Episode 28: Career reflections, Covid...

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2021/05/29

In Episode 28 of the University Registrars Talking About Stuff I am in conversation with Roger Gair, University Secretary at the University of Leeds. Roger has enjoyed a long and distinguished higher education career and, unusually, all of it has been at the same university. After over four decades at Leeds, almost half of that time as University Secretary, Roger must be one of the longest serving administrative leaders in the UK. Although no-one has checked. Looking back over his career Roger

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S1 Ep27: Episode 27: Convening power, planning for...

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2021/03/22

The latest edition of University Registrars Talking About Stuff sees me chatting to Lee Sanders, Registrar and Secretary at the University of Birmingham Lee talks about his all-encompassing role across professional services at Birmingham as well as in relation to governance and as a member of the university executive. Drawing on experiences from both Durham and Warwick (where Lee and I worked together for a period) he observes that things have changed considerably since our time at Warwick and we

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S1 Ep26: Episode 26: Quality counts, the work of the...

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2021/03/07

The latest edition of University Registrars Talking About Stuff offers the opportunity to hear from Douglas Blackstock, Chief Executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. We learn all about the work of the QAA and how it has shrunk significantly in size in recent years but remains an organisation with global reach and one which is still complex in terms of its operations dealing with hundreds of institutions in the UK and many similar agencies overseas too. QAA operates as a

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S1 Ep25: Episode 25: Finland, Pharmacies and the...

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2021/02/28

Episode 25 (a bit of a landmark) features our first international guest on University Registrars Talking About Stuff. Esa Hämäläinen is Director of Administration at the University of Helsinki and also Chair of a notable European higher ed association, HUMANE, the Heads of University Management & Administration Network in Europe. We learn about Esa's background in several Finnish universities and in a students' union, including working on research policy, organisational development, in central

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S1 Ep24: Episode 24: collaboration, inclusion and...

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2021/02/21

In this episode of University Registrars Talking About Stuff it is my enormous pleasure to be talking to Sheena Stewart who is University Secretary at Abertay University in Dundee. Sheena has worked at Abertay for an extraordinary 30 year period but, given what we have been through lately, we mainly look back at the past 12 months and then into the future too. Sheena has led the University's Coronavirus response team throughout this time and observes that the reaction of colleagues across the

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S1 Ep23: Episode 23: The latest episode of University...

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2020/11/29

In the latest edition of University Registrars Talking About Stuff, Episode 23 in the series, I’m in conversation with Andrew Young, Chief Operating Officer at the London School of Economics. We talk about Andrew’s career history - from Newcastle to the capital - and the joys and challenges of working in an institution with such a distinctive history and character as the LSE as well as the experience of the London context for working patterns. The excellent response of staff to the start of the

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S1 Ep22: Episode 22: the Oxford experience, the...

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2020/11/22

Episode 22 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff finds me in discussion with Gill Aitken, Registrar at the University of Oxford. Gill talks through her career from private sector legal firm to civil service lawyer in the Department of Health, also leading various professional teams, and now her first couple of years at Oxford where she has responsibility for a wide range of professional services departments as well as, inevitably, the University's Covid response. We explore her experience

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S1 Ep21: Episode 21: From the Civil Service to...

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2020/10/24

Episode 21 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff welcomes Richard Calvert, Deputy Vice Chancellor Strategy and Operations at Sheffield Hallam University, for an interesting conversation about the current challenges and wider issues too. Richard talks us through his long and varied civil service career, which included major stints at DfID working with some notable Secretaries of State and some major work on organisational effectiveness in the civil service and in other agencies too before

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S1 Ep20: Episode 20: Gifted amateurs, lockdown art...

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2020/09/28

Episode 20 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff features Steve Marshall, Secretary and Registrar at the University of the Arts London talking about lots of topical higher ed matters. Steve talks us briefly through his career and how he ended up at UAL before we explore the nature of the role of Secretary and Registrar and equivalents within universities, considering whether such roles are indeed the last postings for the gifted amateur or perhaps more realistically a destination for those

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S1 Ep19: Episode 19: Dave’s back, welcome to the Open...

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2020/09/18

In Episode 19 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff we welcome the return of Dave Hall whose company we haven’t enjoyed since Episode 8. Much of the stuff we catch up on this time is related to Dave settling in to his new role as University Secretary at the Open University, the challenges of changing job during lockdown, the distinctive mission of his new employer (which he has now learned nearly all of) and his pleasure at discovering he would have a campus to work at (eventually). Dave

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S1 Ep18: Episode 18: the value of generalists,...

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2020/08/02

In Episode 18 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff Paul Greatrix talks to Sophie Bowen, Chief Operating Officer at Middlesex University. We learn about Sophie’s career progression from graduate trainee at the University of Birmingham to her current role and what this experience tells us about the place of generalists and specialists in university administration. Looking at the lockdown experience we reflect on the extraordinary response of all parts of the university community to

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S1 Ep17: Episode 17: Resilience during and after...

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2020/07/19

Episode 17 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff finds Paul Greatrix talking to June Hughes, University Secretary and Registrar at the University of Derby. We hear all about June’s higher education history which has been spent, unusually these days, at just one institution, her current one. Derby has changed hugely in the time June has been there and during her career she has fulfilled most of the core administrative roles you could imagine. We discuss how that broad experience and

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S1 Ep16: Episode 16: Innovation and partnership, the...

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2020/06/28

Episode 16 in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Joanne Clague, Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at Queen’s University Belfast, about a wide range of topics both pre- and post- pandemic. We learn a bit about Joanne’s background and how she spurned auditing to pursue a varied pathway through many different areas of professional services in higher education and also enjoyed a particularly valuable experience in the NHS

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S1 Ep15: Episode 15: University mergers old and new,...

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2020/06/21

Episode 15 in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Steve Denton, Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at Nottingham Trent University, about a variety of big ticket items in higher education at the moment, including, of course, matters pandemic. We look at Steve’s long career in the sector in a series of institutions where, for one reason or another, he has been involved in mergers or the consequences of them including some

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S1 Ep14: Episode 14: The value added by of lawyers in...

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2020/06/06

Episode 14 in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Smita Jamdar, Partner and Head of Education at legal firm Shakespeare Martineau and, on account of broad and distinguished service in higher education, very much an Honorary Registrar. We discuss Smita’s legal background and how she and her firm have responded to the diverse range of legal needs of universities which have grown over the years. Support has ranged from helping

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S1 Ep13: Episode 13: Not the Francis Maude management...

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2020/05/31

The 13th episode in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Rachel Sandby-Thomas, Registrar at the University of Warwick about a variety of current issues in higher education, many of them Covid-19 related. Rachel fills us in on her extensive and varied career as a lawyer in the civil service before she joined Warwick and describes how valuable this experience in Whitehall has been in her role, although she denies forcefully that

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S1 Ep12: Episode 12: New ways of working, avoiding...

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2020/05/23

The latest episode in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Dr David Duncan, Chief Operating Officer and University Secretary at the University of Glasgow about a range of higher education topics mainly relating to the pandemic. We learn a bit about David’s career, the response of Glasgow to the lockdown and talk about future working arrangements. There is some discussion about the slightly different higher education situation

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S1 Ep11: Episode 11: Responding to the crisis,...

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2020/05/16

A new episode in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Registrar and Secretary at the University of Brighton, Stephen Dudderidge about his career, the response to the crisis at all levels of his university, the need for new ways of working and for administrative agility in particular. We also discuss streamlining processes and ensuring consistent implementation, the likely legacy of the crisis in terms of staff anxieties as we

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