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Technical Staff Development
UCL employs over 1,000 highly skilled technical staff with a diverse range of expertise, essential to delivering the university’s research, education and knowledge transfer mission. We are committed to supporting UCL technical staff community and ensuring visibility, training and career development for all technicians working in all disciplines across UCL.
Laying the foundation for this work, in 2018, we signed up to the Technician Commitment - a sector wide campaign led by a steering group of sector bodies, with support from the Science Council and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation’s Technicians Make It Happen campaign. Much progress has been made since then, including the creation of the UCL Technical Skills Development Hub which offers a range of learning and development opportunities.
Check the timeline below for highlights to date + read on to find out more.
- Timeline 2018-25
2018-19 - UCL signs the Technician Commitment (TC)
- Technical Managers Group (TMG) is established
2020-22 - Technical Staff Survey
- Technical Community of Practice (CoP) is created
- Employer Champion Award
2022-23 - Transition to 'business as usual'
- Inaugural Technical Showcase
- Planning stage for the Technical Skills Development Hub (TSDH)
- Publishing of the Technical Survey
2024 - TSDH as the institutional home for the TC
- Career Framework is launched
- Growing communications and opportunities
2024-27 - Actioning the priorities identified through the Technical Survey Report
Technical Skills Development Hub
The Hub provides support and central oversight of technical career development, technical skills management, and the attraction and retention of technical talent. It facilitates bidirectional communication between UCL’s strategic leadership teams, technical managers, technical professionals, and external stakeholders.
If you are a technical professional at UCL, get involved!