Although postgraduate development will be taken from appraisal forms and stored research students have access against individual records. The RIS Converis system captures to an electronic PDP system, research activity and there is potential to use this to inform there is no equivalent system PDP; however, at present there is no mechanism for this. for staff to enable them to record personal/career Online capture of appraisal and training and development development activity. It is records in CORE will be introduced by Dec 2016. This will be recommended that the underpinned by a new University Staff Training & proposed Cardiff People Development Policy which will highlight both staff and system is configured in such a management responsibilities. way as to allow staff to record professional and career Review of effectiveness of training and development recording HR/OSD March Training and development activity. system for research staff to be carried out by HR/OSD, in 2018 development for consultation with CURSA, once sufficient data available. research-only staff will be recorded on CORE. The effectiveness of using this system will have been assessed, with input from CURSA, and recommendations made to rectify any issues identified. E Equality and Diversity CROS 2015 - Cardiff respondents generally reported Q4 2016 Availability of an online favourably in this area, though more detailed analysis showed training module that, as with the UK data, female researchers are in slightly addressing (A3) The University’s Equality ‘Unconscious less agreement that the Institution is committed to E&D or Bias’. At present the and Diversity Committee is
Although postgraduate research students have access to an electronic PDP system, there is no equivalent system for staff to enable them to record personal/career development activity. It is recommended that the proposed Cardiff People system is configured in such a way as to allow staff to record professional and career development activity. development will be taken from appraisal forms and stored against individual records. The RIS Converis system captures research activity and there is potential to use this to inform PDP; however, at present there is no mechanism for this. Online capture of appraisal and training and development records in CORE will be introduced by Dec 2016. This will be underpinned by a new University Staff Training & Development Policy which will highlight both staff and management responsibilities. Review of effectiveness of training and development recording system for research staff to be carried out by HR/OSD, in consultation with CURSA, once sufficient data available. HR/OSD March 2018 Training and development for research-only staff will be recorded on CORE. The effectiveness of using this system will have been assessed, with input from CURSA, and recommendations made to rectify any issues identified. E Equality and Diversity (A3) The University’s Equality and Diversity Committee is CROS 2015 - Cardiff respondents generally reported favourably in this area, though more detailed analysis showed that, as with the UK data, female researchers are in slightly less agreement that the Institution is committed to E&D or Q4 2016 Availability of an online training module addressing ‘Unconscious Bias’. At present the
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