What influenced your decision to be a part of this project the most?
One of the parts of my job I enjoy the most is working on process improvements, and the opportunity to work on a university wide process improvement project is exciting. Having spent 8 years at The University of Glasgow I have seen how the difficulties around timetabling affect my colleagues, and the overall student experiences year on year. I've worked in 3 different institutions since working in L&T admin and have used 3 different timetabling systems during this time so I feel as though I'm well suited to help deliver an improved system that works for both staff and students.
What are you most looking forward to tackling during this project?
I'm excited to make some big swings with the transformation team. I would like to be able to cut the fat out of the current processes we have in place and automate all of the time-consuming simple tasks. I'm looking forward to trying some drastically different approaches and analysing why they may or may not work.
What do you think will be the biggest challenges in this project?
Timetabling at UofG comes with a lot of complications, so there is not a simple solution. The non-prescriptive nature of our programme structure allows for a bespoke experience for each student, this means creating an individualised timetable for each student so we have to consider a massive number of variables. I feel as though some of the systems outside of CMIS that hold course and programme data will limit the enhancements we are able to make to the process, so the challenge will be making the greatest improvement with the data we have.