New website Today we unleash our new website upon an unsuspecting world! And will wait with excitement for seismic reactions across the globe. To be a little more serious, we have spent much of the summer thinking about our logo and our website and how we want them to represent us and what we do.ContinueContinue reading “New website, new academic year and National Read a Book Day”
Category Archives: Universities
The 2021 – 2022 Academic Year: Covid, academia, academic publishing and Gold Leaf’s birthday!
Covid is still with us, along with many restrictions and quasi-restrictions, even though this summer has in some ways appeared to be more “normal”, at least in the UK, than last. “Freedom Day” happened, although it was a bit of a damp squib – essentially, it consisted of the government telling us that it isContinueContinue reading “The 2021 – 2022 Academic Year: Covid, academia, academic publishing and Gold Leaf’s birthday!”
Supporting student mental health at Nottingham Trent University
Paul Dodsley and Leah Wareham together form the hub of the student support service at Nottingham Trent University, where 30,000 students are studying at any one time. Paul describes the service as “prevention-led” – its aim is to take hold of opportunities to support students before they slip into difficulties, rather than afterwards. It hasContinueContinue reading “Supporting student mental health at Nottingham Trent University”
Learning from Libraries – an interview with Roxanne Missingham
Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian and the Australian National University (ANU) describes what it means to her to be a librarian Tell us a bit about your career. Did you always want to be a librarian? Where was your first job? Where did you get your library qualification? My mother says that I wanted to beContinueContinue reading “Learning from Libraries – an interview with Roxanne Missingham”
KEF – Knowledge Exchange Framework: what is it?
In November 2017, the UK government asked HEFCE (now UKRI / Research England) to introduce a “Knowledge Exchange Framework” [KEF] to measure effective collaboration and knowledge exchange with industry and business. It is designed to complement the already established REF[1] and TEF[2] and to evaluate the contribution universities make to the exploitation of knowledge. AfterContinueContinue reading “KEF – Knowledge Exchange Framework: what is it?”
Gold Leaf 