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From Scottish country dancing to investing in friendships, our latest alumni webinar shone a light on a topic growing in importance: our mental health and the things that impact it. .

Monday 8 May is a designated Bank Holiday, and annual leave in SuccessFactors has been updated to reflect this. Depending on your working arrangements, you may need to take action on SuccessFactors. .

To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, we're planning to share a photo gallery of our colleagues who have met the King. If you’d like to get involved, please send us your photo and a few lines about your experienceLink opens in a new window, by Friday 28 April.

Sign-ups are now open for the first student-led ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Film Festival! All staff and students are invited to enter – no matter your level of skill, the team wants to see your short films around the theme of ‘belonging’. Participants will also have the chance to join workshops led by a range of experts, from local filmmakers to big industry names like Disney. – and make a note that your film will need to be submitted by Sunday 21 May. 

In February 2023, the University and College Union (UCU) announced that it would ballot its members to allow industrial action to continue in universities for the rest of the academic year. The ballot closed on 31 March, and yesterday (Monday, 3 April), UCU announced that members have secured a mandate for further strike action.

At present, no details have been shared, but we will continue to keep staff updated as further announcements are made.

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°Â±ð’r±ð currently working through a series of changes to how we collect and return our student data to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Read this update to learn more about ·É³ó²¹³Ù’s changing and why, and what it means for departments.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Business School’s Distance Learning MBA has today been crowned the , beating some of the world’s leading online MBA programmes to top the QS Online MBA ranking.

Researchers in WMG have teamed up with the National University of Radio Electronics (NURE) in Ukraine to develop artificial intelligence that will help treat those wounded by shrapnel. This new state-of-the-art technology will allow medics to spot life-threatening wounds that might not be obvious to the naked eye, so that they can determine which patients require immediate treatment.

Did you nominate a colleague who’s made a significant difference to the support of students through personal tutoring? This year’s shortlist for the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE) has been announced – see who’s been shortlistedLink opens in a new window.