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At the end of my last blog, this was the question posed. For the UK City of Culture 2025 its four. The Women's Prize for Fiction had six on the shortlist. Our own University teaching awards had three on most...

Much like the proverbial piece of string, there is no single answer. Indeed, an internet search regarding the piece of string results in the following: between 1 and 8 feet; twice as long as half its length; 10-35 metres (according...

In the last blog I shared some of the themes emerging from all of the engagement work we did in June and July to help guide the specification for our next Vice-Chancellor. Well tempus has fujit’d and through the summer...

I am writing this on a Thursday. The year 263 (CE) started on a Thursday which, coincidentally is also the number of people who responded to the survey on the recruitment of our next Vice-Chancellor. Thank you to all 263...

The results are in after the first week of our engagement survey. In first place are our alumni with 74 responses. A close second are professional services with 59, followed by our academic staff with 39 responses. In a strong...

In the USA, apparently 6 June 2023 was National Yo-Yo Day, though I suspect that is probably a marketing ploy by the Acme YoYo Corporation. For me, it was the day we started the process of recruiting our next Vice-Chancellor,...