Apologies: David Higgins

SEB Attendees: Sharon Mavin (Chair), Helen Miller, Simon Hussain, Lauren Huntington, Frank Worthington, Nils Braakmann, Anna Tilba, Andrea Whittle, Darren Duxbury, Matt Gorton, Giorgio Fazio, Chris Hicks Apologies: David Higgins

Action/Decision Owner Deadline SEB Terms of Reference to be circulated to SEB members KC Immediate Note that proposals for activities and programmes should be presented to All Immediate SEB before progressing to School committees

Student Consultation Hours/Office Hours Policy FW Immediate Clarification required on hourly paid/adjunct and pro rota staff. FW Immediate Circulate University Staff Consultation Hours/Office Hours Policy to School All Immediate Student Consultation Hours (Office Hours) to be listed on Blackboard and colleagues MyImpact

Teaching Sabbaticals – University policy to be adopted N/A N/A

Congregation attendance – LWO template to be forwarded to CH/HM to AW Immediate adapt for NUBS

PRES Results and Action Plan HM October SEB Damian Cleghorn to liaise with David Higgins to devise action plan. HM to update at next SEB

Policy - Research Group Head Annual Report – requires further DD / SM October SEB discussion. Update at next SEB

Employee Engagement Action Plan - to update colleagues at the 19th SM / HM Immediate/Ongoing October Forum and summary SEB actions to be communicated to all staff

PDR – CH to review last year’s PDRs with Sophie Mayall and provide a CH October SEB timeline for this year’s PDR process. Update at next SEB

Phd – desk situation to be reviewed HM/DD October SEB

Research strategy and progress – further discussion required. Faculty DD/SM October SEB and University Research Strategies under development Analytics of outputs for REF required by the SGHs DD/HN Immediate

Phd students who teach/mark. – University policy to be adopted. HM Immediate Please circulate to SGHs.

Partnerships Delhi MOU requires amends, as per e-mail. Item CH October SEB withdrawn, cfwd to October SEB

Programmes KC October SEB AOB – N200 redesign. Document carried forward to next SEB. SEB All members to read. members

AOB The Chair outlined her review of SEB membership, underpinned by transparency and equity. Two options were considered. 1) To increase the size of SEB to include all Directors at the second level in the structure (Directors of UG, PG, MBA, Impact). 2) To reduce the size of SEB to the first level of management in the short term while as a School we develop the strategy and identify the right structure to deliver it. Option 2 has been adopted. The Chair formally thanked Directors of Corporate Engagement, PGR and International Strategy for their contributions to SEB and assured regular communications from Directors of Research and External Relations.

SEB membership on governance structure to be updated KC October SEB

 Adrian Euler has been appointed interim Dean of Academic Affairs NU London  Deputy Vice Chancellor interviews take place on 9th October  Findings from the University World Café Strategy event will be on the web shortly for all to view  Faculty will appoint a Dean of Culture and Creative Arts as an engagement lead  A 10th School of Combined Arts is being considered with colleagues involved in consultation  Faculty visions for Arts and Social Sciences and Digital are under development  Discussions are under way at University level regarding a Newcastle Fellowship programme  Simon Pallet is working on apprenticeships and employability projects  There are changes in the Faculty strategic planning process with more UEB engagement. There will no longer be an annual staffing round but the refreshed plan will include strategic staffing proposals.  All Schools to encourage colleagues to attend the Promotions Round briefing on 6th October (venue has changed)  Student number planning is underway shortly for next year  Faculty has recruited to student number targets  Meeting discussed the NSS results and plans for improvement