ACADEMIC Workload Management: Changing Cultures

Transcript:ACADEMIC Workload Management: Changing Cultures:
ACADEMIC Workload Management: Changing Cultures National Academic Workload Management Conference – 12 December 2-13 Terry Threadgold Cardiff University Some Essentials (in retrospect) Senior academic leadership Team work and administrative support across the institution (HR, Finance, Planning, Research and Consultancy and IT) Data collection systems able to be linked with an all-university system for allocating and recording workload. Consultation (with staff and union), taking time to listen and to move towards guidelines and consistency. Benefits A robust evidence base for costing and pricing academic work and managing resource: clarity about what resource is actually needed to deliver what is being delivered and then decisions about priorities. Transparency, equity and positive performance management lined up with strategic goals and direction. Working with ‘managed time’ to set clear expectations within that framework. The added benefit of TRAC compatibility and accurate reporting to government and funders. Specific Issues at Cardiff Russell Group, research intensive with a medical school and more vocational teaching then many RGs (e.g., Social Work, Centre for Professional Legal Studies, Journalism, Nursing and Midwifery, Dentistry, Optometry, Pharmacy) Academic contract: 35 hour week. 1510 hour ‘managed’ year. Need to workload plan/allocate for T and R, T and S and R contracts as well as clinical staff jointly managed with the NHS. The Journey So Far 2010 scoping exercise to see what 27 schools were already doing. 2011 Project group: work with five schools with already well developed models (including research but none including engagement/impact/consultancy/knowledge transfer; no T and S pathway) to map workload categories to TRAC list and develop a draft framework: published Jan 2012. 2011 TT as PVC began to work with Finance on TAS and TRAC return. Meetings with 27 HOS annually on TAS results 2011-2013: translating TRAC for Academic staff especially re: institution/own funded research, scholarship, Other and General Institutional Support. The Journey (2) Draft Framework published Jan 2012, asked for volunteers for a project to pilot it in 2012-13. 14 schools took part. 10 developed full models. A project group including the leads in each of the 14 schools, met six-weekly during the pilot year to share issues and good practice. T and S pathway in place and 3 schools worked in detail on managing workload in this context. We were still not too prescriptive and allowed schools working to the framework and in consultation with their staff to tell us what tariffs had been agreed (surprising amount