Leadership Update
Date / October 2012
This is the latest in a series of regular briefings containing University-wide updates.
Briefer
This briefing contains a summary of high-level, key messages to support you with your face-to-face communications with your direct reports.
Ideally, it should be communicated face-to-face to your direct reports by the end of the month – not circulated by email – and should provide an opportunity for your colleagues to give you feedback on the content.
It need not be presented verbatim. Please summarise where appropriate and deliver in a way you are most comfortable with to ensure that messages are authentic.
Briefing guidance / Please add your own content, which is relevant to your support division, college, school, or area of expertise.
The briefing should enable your direct reports to brief their own people on some of the issues facing the University.
Please encourage your direct line reports to add more localised information which should still be delivered face-to-face at each stage of the cascade.
Allow at least an hour for the sharing of information and feedback.
Highlights
this month / 1. College of Business and Law
2. VC events
3. Deputy VC Breakfast Briefing
4. Research Strategy Workshops
5. New appointments to the Research & Innovation team
6. Salford Professional Development Board approved
7. Launch of Salford Lecture Series and Distance Learning Masters
8. New Council appointments
9. Elevate Phase 2 E-Assessment Training
10. Improved Award promotes employability for Salford students
11. Harold Riley Award for Leadership in Community Engagement 2013
12. ‘Make the Difference’ programme to fund community projects
13. Procurement processes
Our mission
Our vision
Our values / Salford is an enterprising University which transforms individuals and communities through excellent teaching, research, innovation and engagement.
The University of Salford will be, by 2017, an outstanding University renowned for the quality of its engagement, humanity, global reach and leadership in research, innovation and education.
We espouse and promote the following values and behaviours:
·  The highest academic, professional and ethical standards
·  Service to our stakeholders, clients and partners and, in particular, putting our students first
·  Supporting our people and recognising and rewarding excellence and leadership
·  Working together for the advancement of the University
·  Innovation, creativity, enterprise, courage
·  Diversity, humanity, fairness and respect
·  Pride in our heritage and the distinctive difference we make to the world
·  Investing passion in all that we do.
Our six goals and owners / ·  Goal 1 – Transforming learning and teaching: Huw Morris
·  Goal 2 – Transforming research and innovation: Jim Yip
·  Goal 3 – Transforming engagement: Keith Barnes
·  Goal 4 – Our people: Keith Watkinson
·  Goal 5 – Transforming infrastructure and services: Adrian Graves
·  Goal 6 – Internationalising our University: Brian Longhurst
Our four themes and leads / ·  Built and Human Environment: Mike Kagioglou
·  Energy: Nigel Mellors
·  Health and Wellbeing: Eileen Fairhurst
·  Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy: Brian Longhurst
Why we need these briefings / ·  The University acknowledges the need to keep its people informed. Our employees perform better when they are involved and when they have an open and honest dialogue with their leaders.
·  Involvement creates good will and employees are prepared to go the “extra mile”. One of the targets for our People Goal 4 is to increase the number of staff engaged to at least 45 per cent by 2012 – placing us in the top quartile of UK organisations.
·  This briefing will help support you in addressing the issues above and will supplement our US staff magazine, as well as US Online and the Staff Channel.
1. College of Business and Law
Changes in the leadership structure have been put in place to enable the University to deal effectively with the challenges we face as we look to re-shape our portfolio of academic programmes.
Huw Morris will take up the new post of Pro-Vice-Chancellor Academic and External and Executive Dean for students.The role will focus on our preparation for the QAA Audit, an important milestone requiring significant leadership to prepare and present a robust case for the University. In addition, Huw will increase the pace of change needed to address the fundamental challenges of transforming learning and teaching. Externally, Huw will extend and deepen important relationships with our partner Colleges and other FE and HE institutions.
As a consequence, a new fourth College of Business and Law will be established with Amanda Broderick, Dean of Salford Business School also serving as Dean of Business and Law. Amanda will now join the Executive Committee in that role.
The College of Arts and Social Sciences will now consist of two Schools: the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences and the Schools of Art and Design and Media, Music and Performance which are forming one new school, the name of which will be announced soon. To strengthen the links between the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) and MediaCityUK, the Deanship of CASS will be joined with the Pro-Vice-Chancellor portfolio for media and digital futures with Brian Longhurst becoming Dean of the College of Arts & Social Sciences, alongside his Pro-Vice-Chancellor International role.
These leadership changes will support the maturing of our MediaCityUK project and the need to deepen and ensure durable partnerships between key Schools and MediaCityUK. They also recognise the value of the Salford Business School and the Salford Law School brands, particularly in terms of their competitive position within the UK and internationally.
The Colleges of Business and Law and Arts and Social Sciences will, for the foreseeable future, share a common College-level administration under Gareth Evans, the existing College Registrar. Gareth will work closely with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and the new Deans in setting up the new management, governance and support arrangements which will be communicated as soon as practicable.
·  2. VC events
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This month the Vice-Chancellor hosted four days of face to face sessions regarding Innovation and Quality in Research and Teaching.
Open to academics and professional services colleagues university-wide, the sessions gave colleagues the opportunity to share proposals, perceptions and concerns, initially in smaller groups and then in a plenary discussion. Feedback from each of the sessions – 12 in all – has been captured to inform further discussion.
The sessions were an opportunity to hear directly from colleagues about practical issues that can be addressed to enhance the working environment for success.
The sessions brought together directors of directorates, academic programme leads and innovators in research and enterprise in conversation around good practice and ideas to push the University’s quality levels even higher.
A new and different series of roundtable discussions – Facing forwards: roundtable with the VC – open to all employees, is also being launched on 2 November, 2012.
The first roundtable, Telling our Story, will be held in the coffee area of the Old Fire Station and it will start at 7.45am and finish at 9am. The second session is entitled Putting Values First and will take place on 30 November in the same place.
·  3. Deputy VC Breakfast Briefing
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The third breakfast briefing in the new academic year, hosted by Dr Adrian Graves, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, takes place on 16 November in the coffee area of the Old Fire Station. These well attended events feature key speakers talking about significant University initiatives and developments.
The focus of this next briefing will be on the University Library, where Julie Berry, University Librarian, will talk about the work of the University Library and its commitment to the delivery of a high-quality library service.
The event starts at 7.45 am and finished at 9am. Colleagues will be able to register their attendance online soon.
4. Research Strategy Workshops
Professor Jim Yip, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovation, and Dr George Baxter,
Director of Research & Innovation, are holding a series of open meetings for all colleagues and Postgraduate Research students over the next month and colleagues are invited to book onto one of these sessions.
The University has been reviewing its Research strategy over the last 6 months and this has now been approved by the Executive. Jim and George would like to share the results of this review with colleagues and will discuss the recommendations which have come from it and ask for feedback and ideas to implement this successfully.
To find out more and to register attendance at one of the sessions between 5 and 29 November, please visit: http://staff.salford.ac.uk/researchstrategyNov12/
5. New appointments to the Research & Innovation team
I am pleased to announce that the University has recently made five new appointments to the Research & Innovation team. The team has a wide remit including research grant support, post award contract management, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Intellectual Property, spin-outs, the REF, industrial partnerships, CPD, Consultancy and other innovation activities. New appointees include:
George Baxter – George joined the University in October 2011 as Professor of Enterprise & Innovation, having worked formerly with ICI, AstraZeneca and the Northwest Regional Development Agency in Sales and Marketing, Business Management and Economic Development. He immediately took over the role of Director of Research & Innovation on an interim basis and has now been confirmed in that role.
John Eccles – John joined the University last month as Intellectual Property (IP) Manager in the Technology Transfer Office.His priority is to translate more of the results of our research into commercial products and services with direct economic, social or environmental benefit, either through spin-out companies, or negotiating licence deals.
Danielle Perigoe – Danielle is the team’s Marketing Manager and her priority will be to help promote Salford's Research & Innovation achievements and impact internally and externally. She will assist colleagues with media relations and help them develop tools to promote their work, such as blogging and social media.
Joe Flanagan – Joe joins us from Ceram Research, where he was Consulting Group Manager, managing the sustainability consulting team. His new role as Consultancy Manager involves growing the commercial consulting business to ensure it is profitable and complements our research and commercial activities, such as CPD and KTPs. He is currently working on developing a strategy to grow the University’s consulting offer and has already been meeting colleagues who currently deliver some of our 500+ commercial consulting projects.
Justine Abbott – Justine will be working on an interim basis as Research Strategy Manager within the Research & Innovation team. She will be working primarily on co-ordinating and managing the University's submission to the REF in 2014. Justine will be working three days a week until the successor to Dr Matt Boswell takes up their post.Justine has more than 20 years’ experience in the University sector and her most recent post was as Institute Manager at the UCL Institute of Child Health.
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6. Salford Professional Development Board approved
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University Council formally approved the Salford Professional Development Board when it met at the start of October. The Board will be chaired by Peter Tavernor, former Principal of The Manchester College.
Peter has worked for more than 40 years in the education sector as a teacher and manager in primary, secondary and further education. Recently retired,his last role saw him leading the largest ever merger of two further education colleges into The Manchester College. The Manchester College is now the largest College of its type in Europe, with national recognition and a healthy financial surplus.
Dr Adrian Graves will also continue on the Board as a Non Executive Director to mediate Salford Professional Development with the University as a whole and will be joined by four new Board members. Nick Collins a Chartered Engineer and an active member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in Manchester is also a Non Executive Director, as is Professor Sue Braid who has made a remarkable contribution to leadership within her discipline of Podiatry at the University and has achieved national recognition.
Marc Davis, Executive Director, is currently a Director at GovNet Communications, and founder of Inside Government, a Business Unit within the company. His responsibilities as Executive Director will be to lead and grow Salford Professional Development into a standalone, highincome generating businessunit, which contributes positively to both the finances and reputation of the University, whilst operating as a self-sufficient business.
To find out more about Salford Professional Development, please visit http://www.salford.ac.uk/spd.
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7. Launch of Salford Lecture Series and Distance Learning Masters
The University’s new lecture series – The Salford Lectures – will launch with guest speaker Dr Azeem Ibrahim’s lecture on Globalisation and Security: Challenges for the Coming Decade.
Taking place in the Chapman Building on Thursday 8 November at 5.30pm, it will address vital issues facing the world today in building the global economy and inter-connectedness of people, while also facing up to the realities and challenges of security for everyone.
His lecture also marks the official launch of two new Masters courses at the University, which have been awarded the prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Foresight Award.
The Distance Learning Masters of Arts in Terrorism and Security and the Distance Learning Masters of Arts in International Relations and Globalisation, starting in January 2013, are designed to appeal to the local and international mid-career student, as well as traditional students who want to know how the world works.
The course leaders for these new MAs will run a Master Class on 7 November, the day before the lecture, which will feature presentations about each of the modules that will be available on these MAs. These include International Political Economy and the Middle East and Terrorism.
To attend the Master Class, please email Laura Owen on .
If you would like to attend the lecture, please visit https://supporters.salford.ac.uk/azeemibrahim.
8. New Council appointments
The University Council appointed three new Independent Board Members this month. The new Council members have a wealth of experience between them:
Jane Luca – Jane is Controller of External Affairs for ITV. Jane has over 30 years of experience in television having joined Granada as a production secretary in the drama department. She progressed through the ranks at Granada and, following the merger with Carlton, became the Controller of Regional Affairs for ITV plc. She has since been promoted to Head of Stakeholder Relations, dividing her time between London and Manchester, and became Controller of External Affairs last year working in the Corporate Affairs and Communications Division. The role sees her manage the broadcaster's relationship with key stakeholders including both the Houses of Parliament and other government bodies with a specific focus on public policy issues. She is also a Board Member of Marketing Manchester and a Governor of Manchester Grammar School.