What skills and experience make a good leader and how do you prepare for a senior role? 🤔
Middlesex Uni VC
@ShanWareing
shared her insights on this week’s episode of Campus, a podcast from
@TimesHigherEd
💡
Hear from her on what makes a great leader 👉
I’m talking about employability metrics at a TEF conference today. LEO: We should be all over longitudinal employability data because of what it says about society, work & inequality. No way should it be an HE performance metric.
@Wonkhe
@LSBU
@officestudents
@timeshighered
Some great news to start off the week 🎉
Today, Professor Shân Wareing steps into her role as our Vice-Chancellor, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the university.
Join us in giving
@ShanWareing
a warm
#TeamMDX
welcome 👋
We're delighted to share that Professor
@ShanWareing
has been appointed as our new Vice-Chancellor.
With her visionary leadership and commitment to innovation, inclusivity and student success, we're excited for the bright future ahead ⭐
Read more:
Bye bye books, and thank you. Office clear out for move from
@LSBU
to
@UniNorthants
. Little space at home, & hot desking as DVC. Feeling gratitude for years of study & scholarship.
For 10 years, I’ve missed discussions at meetings, struggled in interviews, failed to hear in restaurants. Today I had a conversation with someone wearing a mask without asking them to repeat themselves & heard the lyrics of a song for the 1st time. It’s miraculous. I’m grateful.
Well done
@UniNorthants
students and staff for making it successfully through the first general week of autumn term teaching (I know some people started earlier). I’m so impressed with your commitment, pragmatism, & creativity. Hope you have a happy weekend & see you next week.
“We live in interesting times for
#highered
@UniNorthants
is strongly placed to meet the challenges and stand out as exceptional.”
We're delighted to announce that our new Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor
@ShanWareing
, joins us in November.
Story here:
Thank you
@David_PhoenixVC
&
@LSBU
colleagues for my lovely lunch yesterday & farewell gifts. I was overwhelmed by your kindness & I will treasure my River Thames cup & saucer showing places I’ve lived, worked, rowed & studied. It’s been a total privilege working with you.
Very excited that won a
#wonkfest19
award tonight. We
@Wonkhe
bloggers write because we care about higher education (quoting
@it_se
); congratulations to all bloggers, winners, shortlisted or not
At home, self-isolating. No bread in, and no easy means to get some fast. But there was flour and yeast and salt, et voila! About as proud as I can remember being :-)
Ran my first half marathon. I was speedy-ish at the start and slow at the end. Viv said I looked like I was running away from the zombie apocalypse to begin with but got caught and crossed the finish line as a zombie. Ken said even when something is true you don’t have to say it.
280 women leaders and future leaders on
#IamAurora
@AdvanceHE
at London Wembley, on our Power & Politics module. The future leadership of UK HE represented in this room, full of energy!
Moving from hot-desking back to an office means I can bring some books to work again. Which ones? The left hand pile are my published books, articles and chapters. The next three piles are books that changed me professionally. Physical books are so lovely.
“I didn’t have to do the job in the same way as my predecessor, and could shape it to fit my own strengths” great advice from
@rothwell_nancy
on female leadership
#IAmAurora
via
@timeshighered
A walk through the park to take the train to attend today’s meeting of the
@MiddlesexUni
Board of Governors, ahead of taking up post in a couple of weeks. New green leaves and new beginnings.
Celebrating 25 years of student mental health support - the first university in the UK to have specialist provision! - and our wonderful Jo Lester, founding staff member who has changed student mental health support in UK HE
@UniNorthants
Lovely to be joined today by
@UniNorthants
colleagues present and past. It’s been a privilege to work and learn alongside you. Thank you for a great send-off!
What can universities do to help students without family support?
@cardiffuni
acts as a guarantor for its care experienced & estranged students & has not had a rent default in 8 years,
@ThisIsUniteFdn
CEO
@Fiona_Ellison
tells HE leaders at today’s
@AdvanceHE
conference
Here at
@UniNorthants
& already featured on this platform we have a wonderful ‘Where’s Wally’ inspired art piece by
@kardisom
featuring members of the UON & wider town community. I was *so* hoping to be in it! Could it be…? (Text indebted to
@ATStepniak
)
Such a big thank you to all my
@UniNorthants
colleagues for all your farewell and good luck messages. You are a wonderful group of people and it was a privilege to work with you.
I just walked down the street and met my middle child for the first time since they dyed their hair for the holidays. The spirit of adventure is strong in this one.
Two years ago, there were no UK vice chancellors whose career route was via educational development, as far as I know. Now there’s 3 of us. Celebrating
@Seda_UK_
and
@HEDG_UK
alumni
@ProfCTaylor
, London Met VC Julie Hall, and me!
Recording virtual speeches this morning for
@YourSUPresident
& the
@UniNorthants
SU STaR awards. Took Titus down from the wall behind me in the end as not creating the ambience I was seeking.
Welcome to our new
@UniNorthants
students, & thank you to all our student ambassadors and staff for making enrolment such a smooth process. Thank you
@WestNorthants
for joining us today & supporting our students to vote. My youngest came to work with me to see it all happening!
Thank you
@tweetsofkirstie
and
@brgarrett
for letting me experience getting around
@UniNorthants
campus as a wheelchair user for 1/2 an hour today. Really valuable insights even after such a short period
Congratulations 🎉 🎉 to all nominees, short listed students and staff, and winners at
@northampton_su
#STARR
awards for Student, Teaching, Activities & Academic Representation. Delighted to see
@tweetsofkirstie
recognised for her remarkable equality & diversity impact.
speed session in the sunshine on a day off. Chiefly proud of being able measure my run in km despite being born in the 60s. As a reward, my half marathon vest arrived in the post!
Looking forwards to representing
@LSBU
& joining a record-breaking 252 women leaders in higher education at
#LFAurora
@LF4HE
in London today, where I’m speaking on power & politics
Had the strange experience of walking past
@UniNorthants
sim patients this morning, and for a moment thinking I was witnessing the aftermath of a terrible incident
Great account of a resilient
@LSBU
student’s success, and the difference access and widening participation makes to the future of whole families, not just individuals.
How I found my vocation: 'I was told I wasn't intelligent enough to study'
A great couple of days celebrating our graduates, new profs, staff community & the wider community who support
@UniNorthants
. Thank you for joining us Dominic Hopkins, HCR Law + Deputy Lord Lieutenant, & congratulations to new Professors
@WillWise20
Jane Murray &
@eunice_lumsden
I do miss the energy and humour that comes from time with people f2f at work, but plotting my Twitter contacts reminded me how much I value all of you, and all the people off Twitter too who inspire me, challenge me and make me laugh.
Looking forwards to next Monday’s
#IWD2020
conference
@UniNorthants
& exploring with fantastic colleagues how we can make the university & the world more equal.
Working on our TEF submission on the laptop all day, so had a lunchtime run to see daylight & stretch my legs. Trail shoes finally got a meaningful outing,
I'm delighted
@UniNorthants
has signed up to
@StandAloneHE
to support students estranged from their families, who don't have the financial and emotional support, or the bed in the holidays, that helped many of us succeed at university.
Delighted to be in Cardiff today with
@MaeveLankford
, Rosemary Stamp & 140+ women on a leadership trajectory in higher education for
@AdvanceHE
#IAmAurora
- power & politics. Preparing for a more diverse future HE leadership.
About to visit my mum and dad for the long weekend. Looking for a photo of me & kids with them as a gift, we found this from 2020, our first visit with my brother after lock down.
Just had 4 x 15 minute phone calls with subject leaders in
@UniNorthants
@UniNorthantsFBL
- showing extraordinary resilience, collegiality and commitment. Very proud to hear that staff are continuing to work in teams, students are happy, & ‘the technology is working’!
@rjhowe
It's not too late to join us at our Undergraduate Open Day tomorrow 24 February from 9.30am to 3.30pm ❤️
It's a great opportunity to chat to our friendly students, get a tour of campus and learn more about life at Middlesex 🙌
Book your place 👉
This is why it’s important we stand with estranged students every day of the year. I’m proud to be stepping up as Chair of
@theunitefdn
and being an ally every day
#WithEstrangedStudents