Your Voice Matters
05 Mar 2025
Listening to – and acting on – colleague and student feedback
As part of the ongoing development of our Manchester 2035 strategy, we are introducing a new approach to colleague and student feedback with the launch of the Your Voice Matters campaign.
In 2024, we trialled a continuous listening approach to collect feedback from colleagues and students. For colleagues this involves moving away from large surveys conducted every few years towards shorter, more regular surveys, including our Wellbeing pulse survey in March/April 2024, and our joiner, one-year, and leaver surveys in July 2024.
Building on this, we will be running an annual Colleague Engagement Survey which will provide the opportunity for colleagues to have their say about how it feels to work here, how we do things and how we can work together to bring our Manchester 2035 strategy to life.
Your Voice Matters hub
We have created a new hub on StaffNet that brings all of our colleague listening activities together. As well as surveys there are lots of opportunities to feedback and share ideas including our townhall events with President and Vice-Chancellor Duncan Ivison, local open meetings in Directorates and Faculties, and through our various Staff Networks.
The hub will feature stories about how your feedback is being used to inform projects or changes, however big or small. We will also include updates on those harder to solve issues where work is being done to address them but where it may take more time to change. If you have a story you want to feature on the Your Voice Matters hub please email: colleague.experience@manchester.ac.uk
Colleague Engagement Survey 2025 – Tuesday, 25 March-Tuesday, 22 April
On Tuesday, 25 March our new survey for colleagues will open – this is an important way for all colleagues to share how engaged they feel in the work they do, what they value most about working here and where things could, and should, be better.
Survey results will be shared openly with colleagues and data and insight will be used to inform our Manchester 2035 strategy and futures plans around people, culture and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
A group of People, Talent Development and EDI Partners, alongside nominated leaders from each part of the University, will work together to develop both University-level and local actions.
You can find more information about the survey and our approach to colleague voice on the ‘Your Voice Matters’ hub.