Dear All,

Thank you for your work this week.

Congratulations to Angelina Lai on her new contract and her help with web governance.

Happy birthday to DSDT Happy 1st Birthday DSDT!

Well done to WAC for getting that procurement done.

Courage to DLAM in the face of major supplier bankruptcy scares.

Thank you to all who contributed to stories of impact SDGs: Stories of impact | Social Responsibility and Sustainability

If any students amongst you would like to apply for project funding: Student Partnership Agreement Small Project funding 

Congratulations to the UX team for a nomination in the USG recognition Awards. We wait for news of the ISG awards… ISG Staff Intranet

Congratulations to Osh Former LTW Intern is named as a tech rising star and a reminder that if you ever see an award worth going for, just do it.

In that spirit, I am chuffed to report that LTW now holds an Athena Swan Bronze award!
People tend to hear about Athena Swan Athena Swan Charter | Advance HE in the context of academic departments, but it has actually been open to professional services departments since 2015. The first of those awards went to Reading Uni IT dept in 2023, which is around the time that Katie started writing ours.  So, we are the first professional services directorate to gain Athena Swan accreditation in the University, and one of very few nationally. Thank you to Katie for having the patience to write it and to Ari, Aysha, Edward, Lesley, Kevin, Ewan, Stewart and Stratos who gave their time to be on the Self-Assessment Team. Athena Swan award for ISG Athena Swan itself is not entirely uncontroversial, (Athena SWAN – Wikipedia) but I am pleased we finally have it, all the same.

As we move into the season of red autumn leaves and orange food, it’s great to see more than 50 of you signed up for the festive meal The LTW Break Room

Make sure you have your bike lights and high vis on.

With such distressing news coming out of Manchester on Yom Kippur, a reminder that there is a friendly Jewish staff network to join Community Inclusion  as we approach the anniversary of Oct 7.

Stay safe,

-Melissa

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