Upcoming events

The Continuous Improvement Community of Practice (CI CoP) is an active and welcoming learning community open to all University staff at any stage of your Continuous Improvement (CI) journey. 

The CI CoP runs two types of events, CI Stories and CI Lunch and Learns, every term. These events are always recorded and are available to watch on-demand.

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Next event - Tuesday 25 November, 11am-11.45am

Details coming soon.

Upcoming events

From draft to delivery - manage your Power BI updates with confidence, no code required -  Thursday13 November, 12.30-13.00

Join Elena Jarii from Research Services to explore Power BI Deployment Pipelines - a built-in, no-code feature that helps report developers move content from draft to delivery. See how Power BI Deployment Pipelines can help build, test and release reports and updates without disrupting end users or duplicating work, keeping shared reports stable. Register

The Growing Good Governance Community of Practice (GGG CoP) brings together academic and professional services staff who are involved in governance related work across Oxford. The GGG CoP runs regular lunch and learn sessions focusing on different aspects of governance at Oxford.

Online Teams events

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University Governance - How Congregation, Council and main committees are structured and interact

Head of Governance, Lara McCarthy will introduce and hand over to a number of Council and main committee secretariat who will discuss how their committees interact.  Sarah Cowburn (Council), Louise Hasler (GPC) and Kris Tiffen (PRAC). There will be time for questions and observations afterwards.

Professional Services Together is the ambition for how we work as professional services in support of the University’s academic mission. Come along to learn what this means for you!  You'll leave the session armed with new knowledge that you can implement straight away.

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Tuesday 25 November, 11am-12pm

The Induction runs termly and is open to professional services staff who are new to the central University or an academic division, department, college, or faculty. It is held termly and is an in-person event.  

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Please visit the Professional Services Staff Events webpage for more information and to register your interest in attending a Professional Services Staff Induction event.

The Professional Services Conference is an annual event for professional services staff across the University. 

All members of staff in administrative, technical and professional roles are invited to attend. 

Next event

The next Professional Services Conference will take place in September 2026. You can catch up on some of the sessions from the 2024 and 2025 conferences on the past event recordings webpage.

The Registrar's Update takes place twice a year and is a hybrid event open to professional services staff across the University. 

Next event

The next Registrar's Update will take place in Hilary term 2025. In the meantime, you can catch up on the most recent Update (September 2024), a link to this recording is also available on the past event recordings webpage.