For those of us working in the UK HE sector, a vote to remain in the EU on Thursday feels partly survival instinct, and partly a plea for a better world, as Mark Leach very eloquently expressed in his blog on Friday (wonkhe.com/blogs/universities-have-a-responsibility-to-drive-us-to-a-better-world). I will of course be voting to stay in, notwithstanding a hugely […]
Principles of Organising
The success of our new College structure will I believe depend on several important principles, all necessary conditions for making any matrix work; but especially important in the context of a business school, where so much depends on people making things work at the ‘nodes’ of the matrix. These notes are intended to explain some […]
Starting the discussion on our strategy and structure
Many thanks to those of you who managed to make the plenary meeting on Tuesday, and contributed to a good discussion afterwards. Many of you have already followed up with me with some excellent suggestions and comments. For those who didn’t manage to make it let me just emphasise the couple of key points I […]
Virtual Conference on Tourism: 10 – 13th May
A fine example of innovation occurring in the Business School is the seventh Virtual Conference on Tourism, running 10-13 May, for our final year students. Not only does the conference give our students a creative way of achieving their module outcomes, it also allows the rest of us to participate in, and learn from, the […]
Small changes, big differences?
Recently, a small experiment was designed to see if the attendance at adult education classes could be improved by using some principles of positive reinforcement. Programme leaders identified a couple of crucial points at which they realised that students were particularly vulnerable to not showing up for class. They then sent a short text message to them, […]
Made in Lincoln
The tagline “Made in Lincoln” has been metaphorically following me around since I used it during the selection process for this role. It’s not that it has any particular meaning for me yet as a relative newbie both to the city and to the University, but it would be interesting to see if, together, we […]