Staff News

Staff News

REPORT BY ALISON BURMBY, HR MANAGER

Colleges to host students for the Cambridge FoundationFollowing the success of implementing the online holiday system, the College has introduced a new training platform called iHasco for all staff and stipendiary Fellows. The system contains a wealth of topics with over 120 courses available ranging from Health and Safety Courses and HR courses to Equality and Diversity and Business Compliance modules.

The College has also continued to provide in-house training for staff with sessions on Data Protection Awareness, Improving Race Inclusion and Wellness & Motivation.

The staff team has as ever shown their positive, can do ‘Lucy’ response to the Pandemic. On site teams worked tirelessly, continuing to provide an excellent service for students, and responded incredibly well to the new ways of working, sometimes with full PPE and often in bubbles or alone. Similarly our office based staff quickly adjusted to working remotely transitioning to this new way of working with ease and professionalism. We were grateful for the additional government support provided by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (or “furlough”) which enabled us to protect employment for our staff as we look ahead to the future. The College is incredibly thankful to each and every member of the team who contributes in such positive ways to the running of the College. We are grateful to you all.

ARRIVALS:

• As Executive Assistant, Natasha Stokes provides administrative support to both the President and Development Director

• Dr Rihad Khalid, with support from the Isaac Newton Trust, joined as Research Fellow

• Dr Alex Freer joins as Director of Studies and College Teaching Officer in English from Trinity College, Cambridge. Alex studied his PhD at the University of Cambridge

• Dr Elizabeth Fistein and Dr Howard Nelson both join our Tutorial Team

• Working to deliver a high quality, Life Sciences and Technology Programme in collaboration with participating local companies, Rachael Burcher joins as Science & Technology Careers and Enterprise Programme Coordinator

• Lili Schwoerer joins the College as Research Project Coordinator for the Student Lived Experience Project.

• Hayley Hilson joins the Admissions Team as Outreach Officer

• Poorna Mysoor joins as Director of Studies and College Teaching Officer in Law. Poorna has significant experience working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Faculty in the University of Oxford and is also a Tutor in Land Law at Queen’s College, Oxford.

DEPARTURES:

• Hayley Welch, Executive Assistant, left the President’s Office

• Isobel Maddison has left her role as College Teaching Office in English after 13 years in the post. She remains an Emeritus Fellow.

• Summer Creedy, Amy Williams and Matthew Everett left the Housekeeping Team, while Bibiana Balogh’s maternity cover came to an end. Nazare Neves has retired and we wish her the very best in her retirement.

• Neil Knight left his role at the Porters’ Lodge after 7 years at the College

• Kitchen Porter, Marcin Krzak, left the Catering Team to work on his own business

• Lucy Bunker, Undergraduate Admissions Officer left the Admissions Team.

CHANGES:

• Jude Arnold and Alicia McGonigle were promoted to Housekeeping Supervisors and Shaun Bestwick as Domestic Porter Supervisor

• Development Coordinator, Ella Barrett, was made a permanent member of staff

• Carol Peresson changed position and is now Student Finance Accountant (Undergraduate)

• Caitlin Law has been promoted to Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Officer