Breakout Sessions

Session 1

9:30 - 10:30

Session 2

11:00 - 12:00

Session 3

12:05 - 12:30

Session 4

13:30 - 14:30

Session 5

15:00 - 16:00

Engaging with prospective students using social media (This session is now fully booked)

Are you keen to build or develop your social media presence? Do you need some practical ideas and strategies for how to build a community and engage with prospective students? Recruitment and web specialists from Graduate Admissions & Funding will lead this session, drawing on their own experience in this area, and invite you to share your ideas, tips and successes. This interactive workshop will look at what we can hope to achieve by using social media and how we measure our impact, how to build a follower base, and practical considerations like what and when to tweet/post. The session will also include an introduction to using web traffic data and Google Campaign tracking to monitor the success of promoting your content via social media and to find out which channels are most effective for different types of news and events, allowing you to maximise your impact. 

Strategies to promote emotional resilience (This session is now fully booked)

This session will explore how stress and worklife pressures can detrimentally affect us. It will also look at practical strategies to develop emotional resilience. 

Oxford University Museums: the public face of the University

This session will explore how you can work with the museums to engage students in dynamic learning sessions and demonstrate research impact. During this session you will find out about the museums’ wide-ranging work including exhibitions, special lectures and events; object-based learning opportunities for students from a broad range of subjects; formal education for schools and partnerships with bodies such as Edexcel and Arts Award; and outreach with Oxford’s diverse community, including hard-to-reach audiences such as probation and homeless services. 

Student Systems Programme: the new eVision student record

This presentation will outline the current status of the Student Systems Programme and timeline for rollout of the eVision student records system in 2014. A demo of both student and staff views of eVision screens will be provided relating to student detail changes and registration, visas, the fee schedule and module and diets validation.

UAS induction (This session is now fully booked)

New to Oxford? You may be interested in a University Administration & Services (UAS) induction programme, which is being developed. Come along to this pilot workshop and learn about how the collegiate University fits together, including the relationship between the central UAS sections and the academic departments and colleges. We’ll take you through committee structures, governance and compliance, key people and their responsibilities and also include a useful overview of other induction, skills training and networking opportunities. As part of the workshop, we'll be seeking your feedback on the various elements of the programme to help shape its delivery.

Bite-sized college tour: Corpus Christi College (This session is now fully booked)

An exploration of life and work in a college. Each tour will be led by a senior college officer, who will give a tour of their college, talk about their role and answer any questions you may have. 

Is your information safe?

Do you worry whether the information you receive or produce is managed and dealt with safely? The presentation will give you principles for safe working, as well as practical advice on how to operate safely at work and at home. We will address not only electronic information but also hard copy paperwork. 

Alternative approaches to getting things done (This session is now fully booked)

This session will apply the use of alternative technologies in the workplace to show how technology such as recording pens, mind mapping software and voice recognition software can change how you work for the better. 

Apprenticeships - recruitment and succession planning (This session is now fully booked)

An overview of how the University apprenticeship scheme works, and how to use apprenticeships for recruitment and succession planning for support staff. 

Are you prepared? (OSPS)

Are you prepared? Are you saving enough for your retirement? Are you covered in the event of ill health or your death? Find out more about the University of Oxford Staff Pension Scheme (OSPS) and the advantages of being a member. With the changes to the benefits in 2013, this session gives a quick overview of those changes. With the Government’s promotion of workplace pensions, learn more about pension automatic enrolment. 

The changing face of academic publishing

Increasing global competition, constantly changing digital technologies, new ways of presenting and disseminating findings: these are some of the key challenges facing today’s academics. They are also having a marked effect on the landscape of academic publishing. In this session Mandy Hill, Academic Publishing Director at Oxford University Press, explores how OUP is responding to the transforming way in which knowledge is created and shared globally, and what these changes mean for both publishers and academics.

360 degrees around IT Services

This session will dip into the strategy and delivery of IT within the University and how we get the balance right across innovation, service, administration, teaching and research. 

What's the internet like now?

The internet used to be simple - you connected via a desktop computer plugged into a phone socket and used Internet Explorer. But that's all changed. There are phones and tablets and wifi and 3 and 4G. And there are apps, clouds and big data. What does it all mean? This informal talk for non-IT professionals will bring you up to speed on some of the latest terms and technicalities of the internet, touching on entertainment areas like smart TVs and freemium games. 

You built it, but did they come? How to find out what users want(ed)

The Education Enhancement team in IT Services has a strong record of researching technology-enhanced learning, evaluating the usability of IT systems, and collecting the opinions of staff and students. We now offer our expertise to the wider University. In this ‘lightning workshop’, you will dip into various techniques for capturing users' opinions and requirements, and identify the top five tips for designing effective questions. 

Orchard - Mac consultancy and support from IT Services - Session cancelled

The popularity and usage of Mac workstations and MacBooks has grown significantly over the last few years. IT Services offers comprehensive support and consultancy for these devices. The Orchard team can assist your department in integrating Apple computers in your IT infrastructure to ensure compliance with information security policies whilst providing a great user experience. This session will demonstrate cool solutions based on customer success stories of how Macs are managed throughout the University and provide an overview of the service offered. 

Are you prepared? (USS)

Are you prepared? Are you saving enough for your retirement? Are you covered in the event of ill health or your death? Find out more about the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and the advantages of being a member. Changes in tax limits on pension saving could affect those with long service, large pay increase and high earners. Could it affect you or your colleagues? With the Government’s promotion of workplace pensions, learn about pension automatic enrolment. 

CROS and PIRLS results 2013

This session will present an overview of the results from the Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS) and the Principal Investigators' and Research Leaders' Survey (PIRLS). Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss key findings in relation to their own experience and perceptions.

Getting ready for R12

The implementation of Oracle Release 12 (R12) will affect all users of Oracle Financials. The project is on schedule for implementation on 11 November 2013. The implementation of Release 12 not only causes changes to the system, but also to the supporting departmental business processes and reporting. It’s important for users to be proactive and assess any impact on local departmental processes. This presentation covers the main actions that users need to take pre, during and post the go-live of R12 and how the R12 project team can help.