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My COVID-19 leadership challenge started formally on Sunday 15th March, this is when my university announced that it would be suspending on campus teaching and moving to online delivery from the week commencing 25th March. In reality it had started before this date, it was clear the crisis had been affecting the team in a […]
For me and my family, lockdown began on the third week of January. Little did I expect to still be in it many many weeks later! We started lambing back in January and finished some time in April – right around when every day began to feel the same. Lambing time means early mornings, late […]
This is the only way my colleagues have seen me over the last three months: uncomfortably close up, eyes obscured by screen glare, and all of me groaning under the weight of big headphones, and bigger hair. In spite of the weird visuals, though, I feel like working from home has ushered in a golden […]
I have two jobs, one of which I’ve just returned from furlough to, and one that has continued through lock down, working from home. When furlough started it was a relief to turn off one of my work emails to be honest. I had been looking at everything all of the time and trying to […]
I have been really impressed by the opportunities for professional development during the lock down. I have been able to attend a really useful range of online webinars and catch up on recordings from previous events. But you know what I really miss, it’s the informal learning that I was getting from sharing an office […]
When we went into lockdown in March, I was personally very anxious about what the next few weeks or months would look like. Lockdown completely up-ended my established routines. I was used to being in the office most days, working and engaging with lots of other people face-to-face and generally being surrounded by others. I […]
Until lockdown, I had no idea how much I move about over the campus so frequently, and speak to so many people in the course of my working day. I don’t really think of myself as someone who craves the company of others, but being sat at the same desk all day every day and […]
Being a mum of a two-year-old toddler and trying to work from home is definitely challenging. I am lucky though to work for Cardiff University Library Service because I feel that I can share any concerns I have with my line manager and my team, and I know that I can rely on their advice […]
As a Library Director in higher education, I found myself pondering some tough challenges during the week of 9th March. Universities were starting to announce at that point that they were moving their teaching online and stopping physical lectures. Things were all starting to get a bit real, after a few weeks of wondering whether […]
Lockdown life has been a whirlwind. As we grabbed and closed down our labs and offices we created a split second record of our thoughts on lockdown. I look with longing at the piles of books I thought I would be reading, instead I wish I had brought mini pliers for some home dentistry (don’t […]
