We are developing a digital strategy that will improve your experience at work, enhance how we deliver for our students, and enable us to operate more sustainably, both environmentally and financially.

• Read the latest update on our digital transformation journey.

To facilitate the year end process, please note the following arrangements for raising sales invoices to customers for activities carried out prior to 31 July 2025:

Qfis Sales order invoices

• Up to 31 July 2025: All sales orders relating to activities completed prior to 31 July 2025 should be fully approved and posted to QFIS by 4pm on Thursday 31 July 2025. Invoices in progress but not fully approved by 31 July 2025, will be posted to the new year.

All Queen's staff and students are invited to the annual Queen’s Pride Picnic on Wednesday 23 July from 12.00pm to 2.00pm. This free celebration event will include music, entertainment, food trucks, drinks and an ice-cream cart.

The first 200 registrations will receive a free meal and ice-cream ticket. There will also be the opportunity to purchase from the food trucks and ice-cream cart on the day.

• Register here.

The University is currently recruiting to a number of positions internally.

Staff can view internal and external vacancies through iTrent Employee Self-Service.

For planning, the Staff Round Up Summer schedule will begin from next Monday, 7 July. Summer editions will issue fortnightly as follows:

• Monday 7 July
• Monday 21 July
• Monday 4 August
• Monday 18 August

The Staff Round Up will resume its weekly schedule from Monday 1 September.

As part of Queen’s continued commitment to empowering managers to lead effectively through change, we have launched a bespoke Leading Change Toolkit.

The following courses are available to support staff wellbeing within Queen’s. Please register via iTrent Self-Service,* unless otherwise indicated. *Search for 'Wellbeing' to see available courses.

• Working through Change and Building Resilience: 17 September, 22 October, 20 November and 17 December (Online)
• Communicating with Empathy and Understanding Through Change: 28 August (Online)
• Financial Advice 1-to-1 Sessions: 29 July and 30 July (in person). Book directly via the provider here. 
• Understanding Alcohol: 9 July (Online)
• Substance Misuse Awareness: 20 August (Online)

• Queen’s Sport Summer Programme: Enrolment now open. Courses begin on 14 July
• New Membership Price Plan - August 2025
• Summer Scheme: Last few places remaining

Join us for Leading Live – a dynamic forum designed for managers and leaders across the University to connect, collaborate, and grow together – on Wednesday 2 July and Wednesday 1 October*.

Leading Live takes place from 9.30am to 11.00am, with breakfast available from 9.15am. The venue, based on Queen's main campus, will be confirmed following registration.

• Wednesday 2 July: 'The significance of understanding others - how important is this for leaders in developing relationships?'

Please register for either or both events here as soon as possible.

Queen’s staff can now access up to 20 per cent savings on a wide range of Dell products through Dell’s Exclusive Discount Scheme.

This Dell Advantage offer is available to all staff with a Queen’s work email address until August 2025. After this date, staff will need to request new vouchers, limited to two requests per year.

Queen’s has achieved the Fairtrade University Award, which gives recognition to institutions that have embedded ethical and sustainable practices through their curriculum, procurement, research, and campaigns.

• Read more about the award recognition here.

The current Co-Chairs of iRise – the University's Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network – are completing their term. Expressions of Interest are now invited for the two Co-Chair positions, which opens a development opportunity for new colleagues to be involved in the network.

• Staff interested in the roles are asked to please complete this Microsoft form before close of business on Friday 1 August.

A reminder that staff leaving the University must return all university-issued IT equipment prior to their employment end date. This includes, but is not limited to: 

• Laptops, desktops, and monitors 
• Mobile devices, such as phones or tablets 
• Peripheral hardware, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, mice, docking stations and power supply 
• Storage devices such as external hard drives or USB drives 

The equipment should be returned to the IT Helpdesk or to a designated IT Officer.

This is your final opportunity to nominate a deserving Postdoc for the PDC Postdoc Awards 2025. These awards aim to recognise postdoctoral contributions to research, citizenship and outreach, and support.

All staff are encouraged to nominate Queen's postdoctoral researchers who have excelled in their contributions to each of these categories. Nominations close Monday 7 July, at 11.59pm.

• Find out more on the PDC Postdoc Awards webpage, including award categories, eligibility and the nomination process.

Applications are invited for the Queen’s University Teaching Awards 2025. The closing date for receipt of applications is 4.00pm on Thursday 31 July 2025. Queries can be directed to Liz McDowell on e.mcdowell@qub.ac.uk.

• Full details are available on the Centre for Educational Development (CED) website.

Recent posts from Queen's Policy Engagement (QPol):

• Cold public attitudes in the face of the climate crisis, by Professor Katy Hayward, Dr Jonny Hanson and Dr Paula Devine
• The new African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, by Dr Ronagh McQuigg
• The Serendipity of Science: COVID's Silver Lining, by Professor Mark Lawler
• Saving the National Cancer Plan: The triumph of evidence over opinion by Professor Mark Lawler

The Conversation is a news website featuring articles by academics, often republished to global media outlets. Articles by Queen's academics published in The Conversation have been read by 12.5 million people internationally.

Read the latest:

• Is your cat vocal or quiet? The explanation could be in their genes, by Dr Grace Carroll
• Iran air strikes: Republicans split over support for Trump and another 'foreign war', by Richard Hargy
• Another public inquiry into institutional abuses – why they so often fail to deliver justice for victims, by Anne Marie McAlinden

Read the latest staff news stories on the Staff News and Community Gateway:

• Queen's researcher co-winner of ‘Outstanding Pharmacy Early-Career Researcher Award’
• Queen’s Reboot Café wins Innovation in Student Experience Award at the CUBO Awards
• Queen’s Professor hosts international critical care trials conference in Belfast
• Queen’s recognised for commitment to Fairtrade standards with Fairtrade University Award
• Queen’s academic awarded prestigious Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship

Queen's Staff Blog provides a space for staff to share their reflections, knowledge and experiences, and build a connected University community. 

Recent Staff Blogs:

• BLOG: Carers Week Reflections: My Experience as a Staff Carer at Queen's. Jill Kilner, Senior Technician, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, shares her personal experience of caring for both her mum and dad, and the invaluable support she has received through Queen’s Carers Network, CONNECT.
• BLOG: Carers Week Reflections: My Experience as a Staff Carer at Queen's. Dr Abbie Edgar, Researcher Development Consultant in the Thomas J. Moran Graduate School, shares her personal and heartfelt reflections on her role as a carer for her mum, and the support she has received from Queen's Carers Network, CONNECT.
• BLOG: Going to greater heights for Friends of the Cancer Centre. Professor Peter Robertson, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion), shares with us his experience of a charity skydive and the vital work of Friends of the Cancer Centre.

The brand new Lanyon magazine is now available. In the new-look magazine, we talk to Gary Neville about life off the pitch, celebrate 180 years of Queen’s having an impact across the world, take a peek at the lives behind research, and hear from our graduates about what makes Queen’s so special to them.

• A limited number of hard copies will be available but, in the meantime, staff can read the magazine here.

Joining Queen's as a student and then as a lecturer in French, Dr Poppy Boyd now works as a Language Support Officer and is one of the Staff Forum representatives for the Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility Directorate. 

• Profile: Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility Directorate Staff Forum Representative, Dr Poppy Boyd.

Queen’s University is launching a new award/s to encourage early career clinical academics to develop confidence in working at the interface of academia, industry, and healthcare.

Applications are invited from early career researchers who have demonstrated the value of industry collaboration in advancing their work and ‘making NI a region of choice for clinical trials’.

• Applications must be submitted here by 12.00pm on Tuesday 26 August.

Staff are invited to view the summer edition of the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work newsletter here.

If you would like to be added to the School's newsletter email distribution list, please email sseswmedia@qub.ac.uk.

• Watch the AI Hub's AI Case Studies of Queen's staff.
• View and use AI Self-Help Guides on the AI Hub;
• Find recordings of the AI Hub's AI Building Blocks sessions;
• Listen to Jisc's Beyond the Technology Podcast, featuring Queen's.

Additionally, a set of new resources located on the AI student support page have been developed to offer practical support:

Details of ongoing works being carried out across the University campus can be found on the Estates Directorate webpage.

This week’s new and returning films at Queen’s Film Theatre, your cinema on campus.

• Lollipop
• LUMI Presents: Internet Horror
• After the Credits: Film Discussion Group
• David Lynch: Eraserhead

The Naughton Gallery invites staff to its latest sports exhibition, 'CRYIN' AT THE GYM'. All are welcome. Admission is free.

The Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11.00am to 4.00pm.

Colleagues are invited to the launch of the MA Poetry Pamphlet 'Let the Legend Name the Place', taking place on Thursday 3 July in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Seamus Heaney Centre. Doors open at 6.00pm, with readings from the pamphlet taking place from 7.00pm. Copies of the pamphlet will be available to purchase at the event, with profits going to Fighting Words NI.

• Find out more and register for free here.

Learning and Development's July programme of events is now available. From Learning for all, Leading and Managing and Queen’s, LinkedIn Learning, Nature Masterclasses, and Recruitment and Selection Training, there are courses to suit everyone.

• AI in Research Writing
• Gemini in Google Docs
• How to lead through a downsizing or restructuring programme
• Advanced Python: Top tools for Data Science and Engineering

Applications are invited for the SEDA Leading Education for Sustainable Development in the Curriculum programme. The programme is open to Module Co-ordinators or Programme Directors, or members of staff who have significant influence over the curriculum development and design of credit-bearing courses. The programme will run from September to December 2025. Places are limited to 15.

• Find out more and apply via iTrent.

The comprehensive Preparing for Queen’s resource (formerly Getting Started at Queen's) is now live on the My Queen’s website, supporting both prospective and incoming students as they consider or prepare for university life at Queen's.

Staff are invited to explore and share the resource now to help their students get started.