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Roll out of Prevent Duty Training
Dear colleagues, The University has a statutory duty, under the Counter Terrorism Act 2015, ‘to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. Prevent Duty Training is part of the government’s overall counter-terrorism strategy, and under this strategy, new online training is now available across...
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Kevin Stewart MSP visits graduate start-up
Last week, (Friday, February 24) MSP Kevin Stewart paid a visit to the University to meet with staff from graduate start-up company, Zephyrus Aerolabs, who recently won Young EDGE R20.
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Remembering Professor Sir Duncan Rice
A service to remember and celebrate the life of the University’s former Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Duncan Rice, was held on Tuesday (February 28) Family, friends and colleagues gathered in the Chapel and then on the top floor of the library named in his honour to pay their own personal...
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Bitesize Data Protection: guard against inappropriate access to or use of personal data
Did you know that we all have responsibilities to ensure we abide by Data Protection legislation?
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Implementation of the 2023-24 Pay Award
Dear colleagues, This is a further update on the 2023-2024 pay negotiations, regarding implementation of the 2023-24 Pay Award. You can view previous communications about this below. 20 Feb https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/news/16759/ 30 Jan https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/news/16697/ 17 Jan https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/news/16659/ During the dispute resolution meetings, facilitated by Acas, a revised offer as detailed below was made. Overall uplift The...
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Academic Promotion Policy/Procedure, Framework of Criteria and 2023 annual promotion exercise
Dear colleagues, Following our message of 8 February on the new Academic Promotion Policy and Procedure and Framework of Criteria, which you can see below, this is a reminder that briefing sessions to introduce the new Policy/Procedure and Framework are available for staff to attend, with the initial session taking place...
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Strikes - notification form
Further to yesterday's communication advising that strike action by UCU has been paused on 21, 22, 23, 27, 28 February and 1, 2 March, the form (which can be found further down this web page) for staff to notify participation in strike action on 9, 10, 14, 15 and 16...
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Update on pay negotiations
Dear colleagues, Following positive national negotiations between the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA - which represents the universities) and the University and College Union (UCU), I am pleased to advise that strike action has been paused for this and next week. To clarify, this means that strike action will not now...
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New Fellowships for scholars and students in danger
Two At-Risk Fellowships have been launched by the University of Aberdeen to help students and scholars caught up in conflict across the world.
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Management Modules 2023 for Professional Services and Academic Line Managers
The first Inclusive commitment of Aberdeen 2040 is to “care for the wellbeing, health and safety of our diverse community, supporting and developing our people to achieve their full potential”. One the ways in which we aim to achieve this objective is to provide our Managers/Team Leaders and Academic Line Managers...