Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Congratulations to Jen Smith, who has now been confirmed in a promoted post as University Website Team Manager to lead and manage our team looking after one of the largest collection of websites in the sector.  Jen  joined us in 2020 in the role of service […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Some of you may have noticed a University network outage last Saturday or came  back on Monday to a lot of emails from monitoring systems saying our services had all been down.  Luckily it was a short outage but given every one our mailing lists  and […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. It was lovely to see so many of you at the ISG-All Staff meeting. Thank you for asking questions in the chat. As Gavin mentioned, I do now have a view of the budget and FTE we have been set for next year. Please do […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. I hope you enjoyed celebrations for Newcastle, Holi and St Patrick. Congratulations to the Web team who have won the UCISA Sustainability Award! Well done, All.  More chunks of glass for the trophy cabinet https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stratosfilalithis_award-ucisa-sustainability-activity-7308454886495432704-CusL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEcKs8B0sjwDFwVM5qMc-JgbweCVL4SJkc And for our next award, the Space Courses designed by EDE […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week Slightly belated but still warm, welcome to Payton Huber who joined us to help with online learning marketing  Online Learning Marketing Projects – February 2025 newsletter Congratulations to the Web Migration Project who met a final milestone and are now closed, and the SCP project for […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Congratulations to Martin Wilson who is the new LST service team supervisor for the Kings Buildings campus. Martin joined LST as a technician around 1 year ago and before that also spent much of his working life in the University, working for an external contractor installing […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. Congratulations to Andres who has now officially passed his CMALT. Today is the last day to apply for VS. Our LTW engagement with the staff engagement survey is now: 70% ( ISG 67%) Amid a flurry of news coverage about students using AI, UK universities […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week.   Happy Valentines/ Metadata day! valentine’s patron saints of metadata It’s been right chilly in the office this week and you’ll have been enjoying your winter-warming LTW hoodie. If you don’t yet have one of those, ask your manager what to do. We are already […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Please welcome Dija Pandor, joining us as the comms officer for the LOUISA project. Also welcome back Tallulah Thompson, she is back as an intern in DLAM to help us with data analysis and accessibility. Congratulations to the WAC team, who have been shortlisted for UCISA’s […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work again this week. It seems like the ISG and Library buildings mostly survived the storm. The Library have launched an exhibition in the ground floor public space called ‘Rooting’. I suspect they did not test that name on anyone from Australia, or perhaps they did, and it is […]