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1. Contact – Faces of Merseyside

   Get in touch with the Faces of Merseyside project via Face Lab.

2. Alcohol and drug support - staff wellbeing hub

   The effects of alcohol and drugs can be a problem for physical and mental health, as well as cause problems at work. See advice on how to reduce your alcohol intake or support for yourself or family members.

3. Elder Dempster Lines

   Elder Dempster Lines was one of the UK’s largest shipping companies. As part of the Homeward Bound project, we’ve spoken to a number of Elder Dempster’s former employees and passengers, recording their ‘real’ stories and experiences. You can listen to their Elder Dempster stories here.

4. ES1 assessment of contractors

   The University has checks in place to ensure that all contractors who provide services to us should not in fact be treated as if they were an employee and have PAYE and National Insurance withheld on payments made to them.

5. Interviews and memoirs – Elder Dempster

   As part of the Homeward Bound project we’ve collected 25 oral testimonies from Elder Dempster Line’s seafaring and office staff. Listen to the interviews.

6. Your financial wellbeing

   Financial wellbeing is just as important as physical wellbeing. Stress caused by money worries can impact your health in many ways, both physically and mentally.

7. Continuous Improvement workshop

   Continuous Improvement seeks to make constant improvements to processes and practices by reducing inefficiencies and wastes.

8. Reducing deadline bunching

   This guidance outlines the detrimental impact of assessment bunching on students and offers suggestions on how this can be managed in programmes.

9. Sharing Practice – Sway, Using visualisation tools to enhance student engagement in assessment tasks

   To mark the movement of the School of Education to the Faculty of Arts, Professional & Social Studies (APSS) this blog post highlights the practice of Sarah Tickle from the School of Justice Studies and her use of Microsoft Sway.

10. Book in review: Using Simulations for Education, Training and Research (Dieckmann (ed))

    Simulation-based educators should read this book, particularly those who are involved in designing programmes of training or who are responsible for designing the simulator environment and purchasing equipment.