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Recognising vision, innovative practice and ownership
The teams for the Ways of Working: Working Together Award have been nominated for taking ownership of their work and for showing vision and innovative practice.
The winner and finalists have played key roles in the delivery of support for coronavirus and leukaemia patients alike as well as ensuring our students are able to access the support they need at UCL.
Winner: Employment Policy Team
Employee Relations, Planning and Policy
The Employment Policy Team have contributed to our Mission by working on the Key Enabler "Valuing our Staff" in UCL's 2034 Strategy. They have responded to challenges experienced by staff and managers during COVID-19, and have ensured our policies and FAQs have addressed concerns and supported staff. This has been achieved through excellent collaborative working across UCL. In addition, they have responded to the changes in immigration legislation to ensure that staff and managers have the information and resources going forward. They have demonstrated outstanding service and commitment, juggling caring responsibilities, home schooling, and their own illness from covid.
Winner: Welcome Week Response to COVID-19 Team
UCL Student's Union
Welcoming 18,000 new students to UCL is always an organisational challenge, but also an absolute priority of Student's Union UCL each year. However, with the absence of face-to-face activity at scale this year, the Union had to radically change how we delivered the largest student induction in the UK. The way that teams from across the Union came together, each brining their unique skills and ideas, enabled us to not only deliver a wide-range of events and activities for our new students, but also to improve in many ways how we engage with large numbers of people at once.
Finalist: Biosciences Operations Team
Division of Biosciences
The Biosciences Operations team have been critical to the Division successfully returning from Lockdown 1 through to maintaining essential research work now in Lockdown 3. Without their flexibility, willingness to go the extra mile and their deep appreciation of the work the researchers do across the Divisions, Biosciences would not be able to operate in the current environment.
Coming into work when many did not want to, the team prepared our buildings for reopening with a minimum of fuss and a great deal of professionalism. Their speedy response to each new potential Covid case meant that work continued as uninterrupted as possible; their ongoing commitment to the Division is to be applauded.
Finalist: ICH Laboratory Management Team
UCL Population Health Sciences
The ICH Laboratory Management Team have been fantastically dedicated over the last year, keeping laboratories and research facilities running throughout lockdown, while managing multiple large-scale projects. They've travelled into work throughout 2020 to ensure our essential research could continue, covered on-site tasks for colleagues at home and still managed the move of over 100 staff to the Zayed Centre and the UCL Testing Site into ICH Labs.
They have delivered, consistently, and anticipated problems such as the need for additional face masks, sanitiser and wipes, before they hit us.
Finalist: Accelerate to Leadership Project Team
Organisation Development, HR and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
These colleagues have volunteered their time to work to develop, launch and support the Accelerate to Leadership Scheme. The Scheme is a positive action initiative that aims to improve ethnic diversity in senior professional services roles. The team's passion for driving forward equality and significantly shifting the dial within UCL has been fundamental in bringing the scheme to where it is now. They have been instrumental in developing a network of BAME colleagues from across UCL's Professional Services and creating sessions that will help future BAME leaders to transition into key positions.