Love our academic-related, professional services staff - more than just a lecturers' union

Branches continue to be encouraged to elect an ARPS rep onto the branch committee, and hold meetings of ARPS members to discuss their concerns, and consider actions that would address them.

Resources developed to help with this work include:

• recruitment materials
• the ARPS manifesto [318kb]
• a model branch survey (contact Jenny Lennox)
• and the model branch claim [311kb].

Hear from UCU president, Vicky Blake on what the union is doing to support ARPS members:

See our new ARPS recruitment and organising video:

We ran a health and safety briefing on preparing for a mass return to campus.

We also held three focus groups to look at specific issues for IT, library and student support and counselling members:

• Focus group notes - IT members [658kb]
• Focus group notes - library members [655kb]
• Focus group notes - student support and counselling members [629kb]

Finally we hosted a webinar looking at the outcomes of research conducted into 'professional services staff during the Covid-19 pandemic', where we were joined by Professors Richard Watermeyer and Tom Crick who have conducted the research and took us through the outcomes. You can watch this back below.