Key areas of focus include:

• Health and Wellness
• Work-Life Balance and Support
• Mental Health and Safety
• Mental Wellbeing Resources

The toolkit includes:

• Short, engaging, and informative videos, providing practical guidance to support managers at every phase of the change process;
• Practical guides, ready-to-use templates, and resources offering step-by-step advice on managing change effectively;
• Communication guidance and advice, including tips and tools to engage teams and support open dialogue throughout the change journey;
• Curated training and development opportunities to support managers and staff experiencing change.

If you require further information or support, please contact your local HR Business Partner, or email: hrhub@qub.ac.uk.

This survey is being shared on behalf of PwC, who are conducting this research for the NI Executive’s Chief Scientific and Technology Adviser. 

The survey should take around 10-20 minutes to complete. All responses will be treated as strictly confidential and not associated directly with you, unless you provide consent for your details to be shared.

• If you have any queries about the purpose of the research, please contact Tara McBride at: Tara.McBride@executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk
• If you have any technical issues relating to survey completion, please contact: uk_pwc_research@pwc.com

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• For additional queries, please contact Dell Advantage directly at: Dell_Advantage_UKI@Dell.com
• For more information about Queen’s Rewards benefits, please contact the Rewards team at: reward@qub.ac.uk

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

This message includes:

• Our key focus on digital transformation to reduce administrative burden;
• Our commitment to ensuring manageable workloads, including a call for all academic colleagues to engage with the Simitive Academic Work Planning System;
• How we are planning the structural change required to best enable the post-VS transition;
• Interim arrangements for job evaluation and recruitment to support the timely implementation of any changes;
• The launch of a bespoke Leading Change Toolkit to help managers across Queen's lead their teams through change effectively;
• An update on job advertisements and internal mobility;
• And the launch of a new Staff Health and Wellbeing Action Plan.

If you have any further queries, please email: events@qub.ac.uk. 

Whether you're thinking of a student who championed a cause they believed in, or a creative thinker who has made a real impact through their innovation, if a story has stayed with you – big or small – we would love to hear it.

• To attend the meeting, please email: openaccess@qub.ac.uk
• If you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to provide feedback in advance, please submit your comments here.

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The draft new policy aims to provide “clearer and more consistent expectations and support best practice for different research domains and data types.” It emphasises making data as open as possible, implementing FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles, and ensuring responsible data stewardship throughout the research lifecycle. This policy will replace existing council-specific data policies in 2026, making it essential for researchers to understand its implications for funding, data management planning, and publication practices. It proposes a set of common principles and requirements for research data and metadata.

As this policy is currently under consultation, we encourage all academic staff and researchers to engage with its content and contribute to the University’s coordinated response. Your insights will help shape how the policy is implemented and ensure it reflects the realities of research across disciplines. All colleagues are welcome to contribute.

The Co-Chair role can be shared by more than two people and the roles are available for one year, with the option to extend. The roles are time-consuming, and it is recommended you talk with your line manager about recognising the extra commitment(s) in your workload. It is hoped the new Co-Chairs will take up the role in September. If you wish to discuss the role, you can also contact current the Co-Chairs:

• Gulseli Baysu: g.baysu@qub.ac.uk 
• Eyad Abu-Khiran: e.abu-khiran@qub.ac.uk 

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Kith & Kin Financial Advice Clinics 

• Face-to-face sessions: 24 June, 29 and 30 July, Main Site Tower, room 0G.009.
• Online sessions: 10, 11, 25 June.

Wellbeing - Working Through Change and Building Resilience (Online): 10.00am to 11.00am on 17 September, 22 October, 20 November, 17 December.

This challenge aims to reduce car use and encourage active travel and use more sustainable travel alternatives such as, walking, cycling, bus, and rail travel. You can even car-share or use park and ride options too.

• Find out more and register here.

As such any vehicle not displaying a valid 24-25 Permit Disc or covered by a Visitor permit will be refused access to the University car parks.

Planon

Staff will be able to view car parking functionality (including if/where they are on the waiting list and also for adding themselves to the waiting list) through the Queen’s Parking System (Planon) on Queen’s Online, from the week commencing 30 June 2025.

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Phishing involves attackers posing as legitimate sources to trick people into revealing sensitive information like passwords or account details.

When the PAB is used, the offending message is removed from your inbox and sent directly to the Cyber Security team for review. This button is not intended to replace the abuse@qub.ac.uk email address, but work alongside it. Thank you for staying alert and helping to keep Queen’s University Belfast secure.

• Visit the Help Hub for more information about where to report suspicious emails.

All attendees must register in advance and bring student ID on the day.

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This is an unmissable opportunity for all final year students and recent graduates from any university to connect with top employers offering graduate roles and training programmes starting September / Autumn 2025.

To ensure an inclusive environment, a designated, ‘Quiet Time’ will take place from 2.30pm to 3.00pm, during which attendee numbers will be restricted, lighting dimmed and noise levels reduced.

On the day of the Fair there will be free return bus services from Ulster University's Magee, Derry~Londonderry campus and Coleraine campus, to take any students who wish to attend the Fair from these locations to Queen's.

If you have any questions or require access to a promotional toolkit, please contact Queen's Careers Marketing Team at careers-marketing@qub.ac.uk. 

This fair is held in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University, and sponsored by Alternative Heat, with nijobfinder as media partner.

To contribute an article to Queen's Policy Engagement, please email Kevin at qpol@qub.ac.uk.

• How dogs and cats are evolving to look alike and why it's humans' fault - new research / Cachorros e gatos estão evoluindo para ficarem parecidos entre si, e isso está sendo feito pelos humanos, by Dr Grace Carroll
• What have the Democrats achieved in Trump's first 100 days?, by Dr Richard Hargy

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The Conversation is a news analysis and opinion website with content written by academics working with professional journalists. It is an open access, independent media charity funded by more than 80 UK and European universities. View Queen’s academics’ articles on The Conversation here.

During this training session the editor will discuss The Conversation’s unique, collaborative editorial process, give tips on style, tone and structure (with examples), look at how to pitch (with examples) and look at different approaches and article types. You will also have the opportunity to discuss your research with the editor and pitch potential story ideas.

* There are a limited number of places for this session. If you sign up and then are no longer able to attend, please cancel your registration so that your place can be re-allocated to a colleague on the waiting list.

For more information on the female-only session, please contact Zara McBrearty in Queen's Communications Office on email: z.mcbrearty@qub.ac.uk. 

This event will answer any questions you might have about XR (a catch-all term encompassing Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality) immersive technology and provide inspiration for how you might incorporate it into your practice. Attendees will also hear about a new training programme on XR for performing arts to be launched this autumn.

• Full details can be found here.
• Colleagues interested in applying can do so here.

Ahead of applying, the two following online drop-in sessions will be held to answer any questions. Join via the links provided.

• QUB Specific: Friday 6 June, 12.30pm to 1.30pm.
• International: Wednesday 11 June, 12.30pm to 1.30pm.

Alternatively, colleagues can contact Emma McKenna at: science.shop@qub.ac.uk.

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* CERL gives students academic credit for working on collaborative, community-based projects – a win for both student learning and social impact.

Through four international, interactive webinars, and flexible self-directed learning, participants will explore CERL principles and design a project for use in their own course.

No prior soil knowledge is required – just an interest in community engagement and sustainability. A certificate can be provided on completion.

• New senior appointment: Director of Estates
• Transcript: Video message from the Vice-Chancellor (May 2025)
• Queen’s becomes Ambassador in Council’s Belfast Business Promise
• Five-star Queen's café wins catering accolade

• Lecture: What Feminists Reveal When They Investigate Masculinities: The Case of Military ‘Manpower’, Tuesday 17 June, 6.00pm to 7.30pm, Canada Room and Council Chamber, Lanyon Building
• Conference: Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June, 9.30am to 4.30pm, The Great Hall

• QUB Fulbright Presentations 2025: Dr Alana Dagenhart and Dr MK Foster: This public event offers the opportunity to hear from our two distinguished Fulbright scholars, and to celebrate this longstanding exchange programme which continues to enrich our academic community in English at Queen’s. Dr Alana Dagenhart will present on: 'Art, Poetry, & Belfast: How Place Informs Poetry Writing and Being in the World'; Dr MK Foster will present on: 'Apocalypse Found: Excavating the Flood Epic in Northern Ireland'.
• North at 50 Conference: In association with Trinity College Dublin, The Seamus Heaney Centre will host a three-day conference from 5 to 7 June 2025 to commemorate Seamus Heaney’s poetry collection North, 50 years after its publication in 1975.

• Good One
• The Flats
• The Phoenician Scheme
• Darling
• Ocean with David Attenborough
• NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
• Along Came Love
• Cal
• The Ballad of Wallis Island
• The Encampments
• Seamus Heaney: North at 50

Staff tickets are priced at £7.50. Staff and students aged 26 and under can join LUMI to get tickets for £5.00 every day, all year round.

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This exhibition is the seventh instalment in The Naughton Gallery's acclaimed sports exhibition series. From fractured sculptures to bold photography, intricate collage to playful interventions, the exhibition explores how sport intersects with identity, community, and resistance. Whether tackling themes of gender, race, politics, sexuality, or fandom, the featured artists use the aesthetics and iconography of sport to ask urgent questions about contemporary life.

Highlights include depictions of an all-female skate crew in Ethiopia, a confrontation of homophobia within football, and a psychological journey across the Merseyside football divide. Olympic athlete Florence Griffith Joyner and NBA stars emerge as icons of athleticism and style, while also revealing the layered expectations placed on Black bodies in the public eye. Elsewhere, Gaelic football becomes a site of political memory, and a basketball game turns sculptural with every point scored.

This exhibition continues until 7 September 2025.

Reboot is an award-winning, five-star gaming café based on the Lisburn Road at the end of Elmwood Avenue.

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Many carers may not realise their role as a carer and are missing out on essential support and those who do identify as carers may struggle to communicate their responsibilities to staff. Through this training, we aim to increase awareness of student carers at the University and assist staff in providing, or signposting, relevant support.

This training will cover:

• the definition of a carer;
• how to identify a carer;
• barriers faced by carers and how to best address them.

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• How Queen’s Staff are using AI: Explore a range of case studies that showcase innovative applications of AI across Queen’s to inspire new approaches in your own field of work.
• AI Self-Help Guides: The AI Self-Help Guides are here to support your journey into AI. These guides are designed to help you use AI to save time and to understand the impact of AI on your assessment. Find more AI guides and resources on the AI Hub.
• Beyond the Technology Podcast: Queen's progress in digital transformation has been featured in a Jisc podcast episode exploring how AI is transforming education: Beyond the Technology: AI, Innovation, and the Future of Learning at Queen’s University Belfast.
• The AI Hub's AI Building Blocks training series explores the fundamentals of AI and its applications across higher education.

This programme includes four interactive workshops and three informal peer catch-ups, all designed to help you build confidence, better understand the role and develop your leadership style – without any assignments or submissions. Sessions will be a mix of in-person and online.

Workshop Dates and Themes

• 25 June 2025 – Introduction to the Role of Director of Education
• 22 July 2025 – Demystifying the Hidden Efforts
• 13 August 2025 – Strategic Leadership in Practice
• 30 September 2025 – Managing in a VUCA Environment
• Peer Catch-ups – Dates agreed with the group

For queries, please contact Olivia Hamill at: o.hamill@qub.ac.uk.

Please feel free to contact the University Safety Service at safety@qub.ac.uk should you have any queries or training requirements.

This survey is completely anonymous (no personal details or IP tracking), and is flexible and voluntary – participants can start and exit anytime.

Any questions can be directed to Maebh Crosbie at: crosbima@tcd.ie.

• People with Down Syndrome, aged 6-50 years.
• People aged 50-80 years, with Mild Cognitive Impairment or early Alzheimer's Disease.

If you, or your friends or family, would like to take part or hear more about the research, please contact Dr Aoife Hunter: a.hunter@ulster.ac.uk / 028 7012 3416.

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Individuals will be invited to come to the Northern Ireland Clinical Research Facility (Belfast City Hospital) for some vision tests and photographs of the eye, along with some straightforward memory and behavioural tests. With their consent, tear, saliva, and blood samples may also be collected. Travel expenses will be reimbursed, and support will be provided for the study visit.

This study is funded by Alzheimer's Society.