Human Resources Division

The latest round of the University’s Career Support Fund is now open for applications until 14 July 2023. The fund provides grants of up to £10,000 to support staff whose careers have been adversely affected, either by the COVID-19 pandemic or from taking a career break or a period of leave for caring responsibilities.

Full details, including eligibility criteria, examples of how the grant can be used, and how to apply, can be found on the Career Support Fund web pages.

The Council and the General Board have approved a new Hybrid Working Policy to set out the University’s ongoing approach to working practices since the pandemic. The new policy was developed following engagement sessions with Heads of Institutions and a University-wide consultation involving more than 3,500 staff. 

As the Human Resources Transformation Programme (HRTP) continues preparations to move the University to the new HR and payroll system, myHR, it is important that unwanted and outdated data is removed from our current HR system, CHRIS. Keeping unnecessary data makes the transfer of information from CHRIS to myHR more of a burden than it needs to be and affects the quality of data that is moved across.  

There is still time to make a nomination for the Apprenticeship Awards 2023 before the deadline on Friday 31st March 2023.

You can nominate under the following categories:

We are asking all staff to log in to Employee Self Service to ensure that the personal information we hold for you is up to date. We do this regularly because we want to ensure we can contact you in an emergency and that our staff information is accurate.

Introducing myHR

The views of institutions and employees are sought on a draft International Working Policy by 6 March 2023. The policy will replace the existing Global Mobility Policy to provide the framework for any paid activity that will take place outside the UK (including fieldwork/research, secondments and sabbaticals).

The latest round of the University’s Career Support Fund is open for applications until 31 January 2023. The fund provides grants of up to £10,000 to support employees of all staff groups whose careers have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic or those who have taken a career break or a period of leave for caring responsibilities. Full details, including the eligibility criteria, examples of what the grants can be used for, and how to apply can be found on the HR Division web pages. 

A review of the University’s Retirement Policy had been scheduled to take place during 2019/20, but this work was postponed due to the Covid 19 pandemic. On 20 October 2022, the Human Resources Committee agreed that the review should now take place, and this work will be progressed during this academic year. As with other recent reviews of HR policies, there will be a full consultation with the University community to ensure everyone’s voice is heard.