University Registrars Talking About Stuff

Episode 20 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff features Steve Marshall, Secretary and Registrar at the University of the Arts London talking about lots of topical higher ed matters. Steve talks us briefly through his career and how he ended up at UAL before we explore the nature of the role of Secretary and Registrar and equivalents within universities, considering whether such roles are...

In Episode 19 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff we welcome the return of Dave Hall whose company we haven’t enjoyed since Episode 8. Much of the stuff we catch up on this time is related to Dave settling in to his new role as University Secretary at the Open University, the challenges of changing job during lockdown, the distinctive mission of his new employer (which he has now learned...

In Episode 18 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff Paul Greatrix talks to Sophie Bowen, Chief Operating Officer at Middlesex University. We learn about Sophie’s career progression from graduate trainee at the University of Birmingham to her current role and what this experience tells us about the place of generalists and specialists in university administration. Looking at the lockdown exp...

Episode 17 of University Registrars Talking About Stuff finds Paul Greatrix talking to June Hughes, University Secretary and Registrar at the University of Derby. We hear all about June’s higher education history which has been spent, unusually these days, at just one institution, her current one. Derby has changed hugely in the time June has been there and during her career she has fulfilled most...

Episode 16 in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Joanne Clague, Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at Queen’s University Belfast, about a wide range of topics both pre- and post- pandemic. We learn a bit about Joanne’s background and how she spurned auditing to pursue a varied pathway through many different areas of profe...

Episode 15 in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Steve Denton, Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at Nottingham Trent University, about a variety of big ticket items  in higher education at the moment, including, of course, matters pandemic. We look at Steve’s long career in the sector in a series of institutions where, f...

Episode 14 in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Smita Jamdar, Partner and Head of Education at legal firm Shakespeare Martineau and, on account of broad and distinguished service in higher education, very much an Honorary Registrar. We discuss Smita’s legal background and how she and her firm have responded to the diverse r...

The 13th episode in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Rachel Sandby-Thomas, Registrar at the University of Warwick about a variety of current issues in higher education, many of them Covid-19 related. Rachel fills us in on her extensive and varied career as a lawyer in the civil service before she joined Warwick and describ...

The latest episode in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Dr David Duncan, Chief Operating Officer and University Secretary at the University of Glasgow about a range of higher education topics mainly relating to the pandemic. We learn a bit about David’s career, the response of Glasgow to the lockdown and talk about future w...

A new episode in the series of podcasts featuring University Registrars talking about stuff. This time Paul Greatrix talks to Registrar and Secretary at the University of Brighton, Stephen Dudderidge about his career, the response to the crisis at all levels of his university, the need for new ways of working and for administrative agility in particular. We also discuss streamlining processes and...

Episode 10 in the series of University Registrars talking about stuff. In this edition Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talks to Nicola Owen, Deputy Chief Executive Operations at Lancaster University about her career, life under lockdown, her University’s response to the current crisis and what the future holds, both for the sector and for AHUA, the Association of Heads of Universi...

In this episode Paul Greatrix talks to Dr John Hogan of Newcastle University about the impact of cuts in the 80s, the Warwick experience (again), life under lockdown and many a financial challenge ahead for the sector

Episode 8  in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. In this instalment Dave Hall of the Open University and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk about some more highly pertinent higher education matters, this time it is largely about matters ceremonial. First off we look at the thorny issue of the award of honorary degrees and th...

Episode 7 in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. In this instalment Dave Hall of the Open University and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham discuss a diverse range of key issues from controversial speakers to reindeer on campus. Universities are expected and required to be guardians of free speech but we often find we have speaker...

This is the sixth in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. In this episode Dave Hall of the Open University and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk about the different elements of the highest level of university governance. Goings on at the governing body are largely unseen by many within universities and there is a real need to...

Episode 5 in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. Dave Hall of the Open University and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk through a number of areas of university life including the challenging issues around supporting animal research, student protests and occupations and the impact that students can have on the local community...

Episode 4  Welcome to the fourth in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. Dave Hall of the University of Leicester and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk through a number of items of registrarial interest with the focus this time very much on teaching and learning. The big issues addressed include: are we doing the right things...

The third in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. Dave Hall of the University of Leicester and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk through a number of items of registrarial interest including some of some of the more unusual aspects of the Registrar role, such as working with partners in challenging environments from Afghanista...

The second in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. Dave Hall of the University of Leicester and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk through a number of topics including job titles, from Registrar to COO to CFO and all points in between, the most enjoyable and least satisfying aspects of being a Registrar, the excitement and cha...

The very first in a series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. Dave Hall of the University of Leicester and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk through a number of topics including the role of the Registrar, some key responsibilities of the job and Dave’s career trajectory from the army and rebellion in the ranks to sabbatical officer an...