Learning & teaching involves a lot of 'back of house' work before it gets in front of your students.
This involves you knowing and understanding how our University structures work, what our institutional strategic priorities are, and how your bit of the jigsaw fits into the bigger picture. You also need to know how these procedures impact your own personal and professional development - including how you can achieve professional recognition for your work as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy or perhaps through a teaching award.
You'll find lots of useful links in this guide but you probably won't need to look at them all now, so remember that you can find them here.
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The University of Dundee is organised into eight schools containing multiple disciplines.
What is Court? Who is the Rector? Which School does my subject lie within?...
Find everything you need to know about the Schools and UoD’s organisational structure and leadership
Information Governance is part of Culture & Information with Archive Services and Museum Services.
Policy documents, guidelines and other materials are available in the following areas:
Produced by the People Support Team, this handbook provides staff with practical information about the University for your first few days in your new role and beyond. In addition to this University level handbook, Schools and Directorates will have their own which should be made available to you when you commence your new role.
Find the current handbooks for the modules you are teaching.
Adviser of Studies Handbook 2023-24
This handbook is designed to offer a general overview of the responsibilities and challenges commonly facing Advisers of Studies, together with some practical suggestions for enhancing the effectiveness of the role.
There are several online training and policies which are mandatory to read or complete within a short time of beginning your employment at the University of Dundee.
All new staff are required to undertake this training. Core modules are augmented by specialist modules for certain workers, eg staff who work in a laboratory setting. Further information and access to the training is available here
Safety Services provide a wide range of useful information, including:
All staff must complete online training modules on equality and diversity issues.
Please note: New staff will be registered automatically within a few weeks of starting and will receive an email with their password inviting them to login to the training website.
This online course explains various cyber topics through the lens of a Higher Education Institution. Go through the case studies, examples, and information to brush up on your knowledge. When ready, undertake the endpoint assessment to test what you know. This mandatory staff module can be found in My Dundee under My Organisations and takes up to one hour to complete. Be sure to have headphones at hand before getting started if you work in a shared area.
→ Go to My Dundee to start your training
Policies and documentation you will need, including the Academic Probationer’s Pack.
Information on probation for professional and research staff
Support and guidance for staff on a range of HR and organisational topics
The OSaR process supports the University’s strategic aims of embedding and supporting a culture of performance management and improvement throughout the University to unlock the full productive capacity of staff. Staff meet with their line manager annually to review their achievements over the past year and set objectives for the forthcoming year.
Teaching Awards
Chancellor's Award
This award is the most prestigious teaching award made by the University and acknowledges senior teachers for outstanding achievement in contributions to teaching with us over a significant period of time. Read more
Honorary Graduates' Award for Inclusive Teaching
This Award is open to both teaching staff and those based in central services and recognises teaching or service delivery which removes barriers and promotes inclusion, in particular regarding people who may experience discrimination. Read more
School Awards
In addition, some Schools have their own discipline-specific good practice awards, such as the FaME (Faculty of Medical Educators) Awards. Enquire in your School for these.
Student Led Teaching Awards
Dundee University Students' Union (DUSA) run the Student Led Teaching Awards (SLTAs), where teachers are nominated by their students. Every nominee gets a commemorative mug, which is a coveted item around campus!
Other Awards
Dundee Difference Awards
In Academic Year 2023-24, the University has introduced the Dundee Difference Awards, which celebrate outstanding staff contributions in ten categories from Inspiring Colleague to Social Impact.
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The University of Dundee Archive Services hold material relating to the University and to individuals, industry and organisations in the Tayside area and beyond. They offer teaching and research support to students and academics from the University of Dundee and other institutions and are always keen to work with academics to use original material in their teaching. Their extensive collections include:
Watch this video from Sharon Kelly, Archives Services: How to Use Archives in your Teaching
Duration 15:04 Video Disclaimer Text Video and audio content at the University is delivered via YuJa and uses closed captions generated by automatic speech recognition (ASR). The ASR process is based on machine learning algorithms which automatically transcribe voice to text. This process is 75-90% accurate and consequently video and audio closed captions may include some transcription errors. It is therefore important to recognise that the “source of truth” for all video and audio recordings in YuJa is the original audio recording and not the captions. If you require accurate captions as part of your reasonable adjustments, please contact Disability Services to discuss your requirements for quality captions. |
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The organisational structure of professional services within the University of Dundee.
