Denise volunteers a new idea
22 Oct 2013
Investing in Success is a £1 million initiative to boost staff development that has resulted in a fascinating array of projects which show just how passionate our people are about their work here at the University.
The Investing in Success fund came along at just the right time for Denise Fieldhouse – she had been looking for examples of staff volunteering at the University and in her owns words: “I saw a gap.”
Staff Development Advisor Denise, who has been working at the University’s Directorate of Human Resources for 11 years, knew from personal experience as a governor at her children’s school, that volunteering could bring new skills and a sense of achievement to take your career path to a new level.
But while she could see that many academics had been able to take up development as part of their research, or identified an opportunity while doing their research, there were fewer Professional Support Services staff in that position.
“When the IIS funding came out, I saw it as an opportunity to look at volunteering being embedded in staff development for the PSS sector,” she recalls.