The HEaTED regional network provides a forum for discussion and communication between technicians, technical managers and staff developers. It promotes training events, the sharing of knowledge, skills and best practice amongst technical staff and increased awareness of the opportunities and facilities provided by HEaTED and member institutions.

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Agenda:

12.00 – Registration, lunch and networking

12.50 – Welcome to Stirling University, James Dick/Lorna Prince

13.00 – Welcome and Icebreaker – Val Gordon, HEaTED’s Scotland Regional Network Coordinator
  
13.20 – The Technician Commitment Initiative (TCI):  What has HEaTED done to support TCI signatory members so far? Suhel Miah, HEaTED Programme Manager

13.30 – Breakout Session 1: TCI action plans and implementation

Where are the similarities and the differences? How will it be implemented? Who is leading efforts and how in your organisation? Who do you need in the working group to make things happen?

14.30 – Break and refreshment

14.45 – Break out Session 2: How can HEaTED help implement our TCI plans?

15.30 – Looking ahead at the next Scotland RNM

15.45 – Evaluation

15.50 – Final Summary

16.00 – End

Outcomes

The outcomes of this event are to:

• Identify and develop an action plan for personal/team CPD needs 
• Make productive connections through networking in the region  
• Share ideas and seize opportunities to develop technical services 
• Discover training and development events for the technical workforce

Technologist month is aimed at celebrating the hard work that technologists carry out on a day to day basis within research facilities. It will be held over the Month of March 2019 in the lead up to IAT congress. We would like establishments to participate by holding events of some description at their establishments to celebrate the technologists working there. We would like to reach out to all establishment holders in order to promote this event and get them on board by participating. Please see the attached letter describing in more detail what we are trying to achieve.

Technicians Commitment
With the University’s increased focus on research and teaching quality, coupled with our determination to increase our graduate employability, the role of technicians has never been more important.

In recognition of this, earlier this academic year the University signed up to the Technician Commitment Initiative, a UK university and research institution initiative. In signing the Commitment, the University has pledged to take action against the key challenges that are faced by technicians across the UK, and specifically within the higher education sector.  Read more here.

Technicians Forum event

In order to build an active community of University technicians, and to hear your views on what the next steps should be, we would like to invite you to attend a dedicated Technicians Forum event  on Tuesday 28 August, from 9.30am – 1.30pm.

To attend the event please, complete the short online form.

If you are unable to attend this and have any comments or suggestions please email technicianscommitment@stir.ac.uk.

 

Dear HEaTED Member,

HEaTED has received many requests for help with organisational and individual performance assessment. In response to this and a wider UK need, we have developed HEaTED’s Competency Assessment Toolkit for Technical Staff – CATTS.

CATTS provides a benchmarking tool for all professionals (regardless of specialism or discipline) of their current competencies, development areas, and future direction.

We are delighted to inform you that the CATTS is now available for our member institutions to purchase! Click here to be taken to the booking form.