I actually got to our Bristol office this week, after spending what felt like the most of June travelling across the UK and Europe. Over the last few weeks I have been to Brussels, Belfast, Brighton, Nottingham for work. In addition I have been visiting University open days, so have also travelled to Bristol, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Worcester, Oxford as well.

It’s nice to get to the office and work, as well as meet people. I don’t really like going to the office if I have numerous online meetings, as I could be anywhere and stuck in an office looking at a screen to me isn’t really a real reason to be in the office. Though it has to be said the air-conditioning was welcome in all this heat we’ve been having.

This week saw the presentation of the almost finished strategic outline cases to the UUK Transformation & Efficiency Taskforce at their final meeting. This has been a huge task, but realty interesting piece of work.

It’s that time of year when I need to undertake some mandatory refresher training. This time it was Data Protection & Data Governance, and Information Security.

I took a volunteering day, it’s nice that Jisc allows staff to take time off for volunteering.

A lot of the week I was finalising a proposal (with NREN colleagues) on NREN support for pan-European student mobility.