Welcome
Welcome to Universities Human Resources, the key organisation for human resources professionals in higher education in the UK.
Membership of UHR, by annual subscription, is open to HE institutions in the UK and Ireland, giving the HR staff in these institutions access to a wide range of networking opportunities, dissemination of good practice, development activities and a mailbase discussion forum.
More information about UHR is given in the
About UHR section of this web site. To read our most recent newsletter, click
here.
Follow us on Twitter @uhr_conf to find out the latest on the annual conference.
People Management Framework
UHR developed the People Management Framework, enabling organisations to measure the impact of their people management interventions across the organisation, over time, and to benchmark internally and externally, using KPIs and other organisational strategic objectives within it. Funded by HEFCE and UHR, and designed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) with input from over 50 HR Directors and universities and colleges in the UK, it is an exciting development that is particularly useful in a period when all organisations need to identify effective interventions to obtain value for money. Click
here to find out more.
HR Excellence Awards
We announced the winners of our 2011 awards for excellence in HR in higher education at the UHR conference, on 19 May. With a record number of entries this year, the judges were faced with a challenge themselves, choosing between many very different projects. These were the winners in the four categories:
Talent challenge: University of Sheffield for its 'Female Academic Progression' project.
Organisational resilience & staff engagement: De Montfort University for its 'Vision Cafe' project.
HR contribution to business efficiency in challenging times: University of the West of England for its 'People + Performance' project. (Also commended were the University of Cumbria for 'HR's part in restructuring the university', and the University of Lincoln for its 'Absence management and wellbeing' initiative.)
Exceptional HR achievement: City University, for 'An HR metamorphosis' (with the University of Brighton also commended for its 'Equality starts here' initiative).
Read more about the projects
here and look out for the newsletter featuring all these projects, coming out in July. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to all the other teams that entered. We hope to find ways of showcasing and sharing all the good practice of which we saw evidence over the next year, whether at regional events, national development days, or at the 2012 UHR conference in Ashford.
UHR Development Days
The next UHR development events will be the remaining two Employment Law updates, being held in Edinburgh (7 December) and Birmingham (14 December) and the 'Showcasing Good Practice' development day in London on 1 February 2012; and bookings may be made via the
Events tab.
UHR Annual conference
The
2012 conference 'Sustainability & survival - join the race' will be held in Ashford, Kent, from 15 to 18 May, with a strong Olympic theme.