This is part two of our podcast with AHUA members. In it, Paul Greatrix, Registrar at the University of Nottingham, interviews fellow university leaders about the challenges of the start of term, and how they and their institutions are coping.

On the podcast Paul asks his group of Registrars and Chief Operating Officers to share:

• How they’ve coped personally with the last few months and what interesting things they’ve discovered about themselves
  
• How they would define the last few months and what has stood out for them
  
• As students return, what their institutions have been doing that has been particularly successful, and made the most difference
  
• How new approaches to teaching have been received
  
• What their campuses currently look and feel like
  
• Whether student numbers have held up
  
• How students have reacted to being back on campus.
  

About the speakers

• Paul Greatrix is Registrar at the University of Nottingham
  
• Steve Knight is Chief Operating Officer at the University of Sunderland
  
• Louise Nadal is School Secretary at the LSE
  
• Eileen Schofield is University Secretary and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Stirling.
  

In our second podcast with AHUA members, Paul Greatrix, Registrar at the University of Nottingham, interviews fellow university leaders about the challenges of the start of term, and how they and their institutions are coping.

On the podcast
Paul asks his group of Registrars and Chief Operating Officers to share:

• How they’ve coped personally with the last few months and what interesting things they’ve discovered about themselves
• How they would define the last few months and what has stood out for them
• As students return, what their institutions have been doing that has been particularly successful, and made the most difference
• How new approaches to teaching have been received
• What their campuses currently look and feel like
• Whether student numbers have held up
• How students have reacted to being back on campus.

About the speakers

• Paul Greatrix is Registrar at the University of Nottingham
• Steve Knight is Chief Operating Officer at the University of Sunderland
• Louise Nadal is School Secretary at the LSE
• Eileen Schofield is University Secretary and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Stirling.
  

In this first AHUA members’ podcast, Niamh Lamond, Chief Operating Officer at Ulster University, Patrick Hackett, Registrar, Secretary and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Manchester, and Paula Sanderson, Registrar at SOAS are interviewed by Paul Greatrix, Registrar at the University of Nottingham, about the issues and challenges of dealing with C-19 and of coming out of lockdown.

Paul explores with the group what they’ve learned about themselves while working from home, how they’ve found the experience more generally, both for themselves and their institutions, how confident they are about opening in a planned way, and how they envisage their teams working post pandemic.

The group also considers the future of the sector and the role they would like to see government play in supporting HE both through the pandemic and beyond.

Covering a wide range of issues, the interviewees throw light on the complexity of leading in uncertain times and their experiences – both positive and negative – of managing staff and students in a time of crisis.