Together

Nimisha Thanki

Loughborough is a diverse, vibrant, and inclusive community with many staff training others, delivering content, and producing training materials. Some of whom have not received comprehensive training on how to train others. This gap in the University led to the creation of a ‘Train the Trainer programme’ – which was created and co-delivered by Nimisha. For Nimisha, the greatest satisfaction of planning and delivering such a project was the outcome, the value that it brought to staff and the inspiration and motivation that it instilled in colleagues.

The Doctoral College Office

This team plays a collaborative role in the construction of four competitive bids for CDT’s (Centres for Doctoral Training) in 2023. Under the leadership of Prof. Steve Christie, the team pulled together to support the academic teams writing their bids. This included financial support, creating training materials, reviewing drafts, training for pitches, developing high-quality literature, and to provide professional artwork for bids. These were complicated proposals with many stakeholders, it was only through close and effective collaboration that these could be constructed and brought to a good result.

UG Arts Admin Team

Collaborative, responsible and authentic, the UG Arts Admin team have the difficult job of being the accountable face of the University for frustrated students and staff in a variety of pressures and learning needs. Their biggest challenge in the 23/24 year has been managing the admin from the Creative Arts rebooted courses. Fine Art, Textiles, Fashion and Graphics are in the 2nd year of their redesigns which led to the implementation of 6-week blocks, doubling the number of modules we have. Like any hero, they are always there when you need them, and have saved us more times than we could ever be aware of.

The Reading List Project Team

The reading list system project is a collaborative venture between Library and IT Services. It moved the University efficiently from a 22-year-old system to a future-fit one, greatly enhancing student experience. Team members collaborated to identify the product that best met University needs; ensure its successful integration with existing University systems; migrate the content of over 2200 reading lists with minimal disruption. The new system has already been accessed by over 4000 users, with overwhelmingly positive feedback.