Poster sessions

The posters will be displayed along the far wall opposite the doors in the Exhibition Hall. 

There will be the opportunity to speak to the presenters during the poster session on Wednesday evening between 1700 - 1830 the winning poster as voted for during the session will be presented with a prize.

Develop Me!
Graham Hill, University of Bradford
The Develop Me! provides links and resources help students to:

• Feel more confident about being at University.
• Meet and chat with other students at the University of Bradford.
• Identify their levels of confidence in different skill areas.
• Articulate what evidence they have for the skills they feel confident in.
• Define an action plan to develop the skills they feel less confident in.
• Access online and face-to-face development activities.
• Review their progress.

http://www.brad.ac.uk/developme/


ITIL for the HE Community
Val Blackett, Caroline House, and UCISA ITIL Project Steering Group
UCISA learnt, via the Top Concerns Survey, that many institutions are interested in ITIL.
This poster illustrates deliverables from the first phase of the UCISA and JISC funded project - ITIL for the HE community: Introduction, ITIL Management Overview, 13 university case studies and report from Service Catalogue workshops.


CampusM: Our Campus in Your Hands
Chris Sexton, University of Sheffield
CampusM is a mobile application that enables students to receive University of Sheffield information direct to their mobile phone. It gives them access to information about upcoming events; displays campus maps and lets them view their own timetable. The application features a friend locator and users can also browse their library records and look up staff and student contact details from the University directory. Students also use the application to receive the latest news and important alerts, and they can see where there are free PCs on campus.
CampusM is currently available on the iPhone and iPod touch, and during April 2010 the application will be available to a large range of other mobile phones.


UCISA Corporate Information Systems Group (CISG)
Heidi Fraser-Krauss, Chair of UCISA-CISG
A group drawing on the experience and shared knowledge of staff in the areas of Business and Corporate Information Systems UCISA-CISG comprises one person representing Corporate Information Systems interests for each UK Higher Education Institution that is a member of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). That person is nominated by the member institution either at the point of initial UCISA membership, or when renewing membership, and would normally be the most senior member of staff who is specifically tasked with managing Administrative and/or Corporate Information Systems within the member institution.
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg.aspx

UCISA Infrastructure Group (IG)
Geoff Bouch, Chair of UCISA-IG
Come along to the UCISA-IG poster session to give us your views on what activities IG should focus on over the next year.
The Infrastructure Group (UCISA IG) is the focal point for activities that sit between the hardware and application programs. The group liaises with the suppliers of these technologies to the sector. Where these areas overlap (and interface) with activities of other UCISA groups and committees the IG works with these other groups to provide more effective support for the UCISA membership.
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/ig.aspx

UCISA Networking Group (NG)
Ian Griffiths, Chair of UCISA-NG
Monitoring and promotion of the communications network, associated network services and network security. The group's remit is to consider all aspects of networking and network security within the academic and research community and to give advice to UCISA and to the JISC and its relevant sub-committees on strategic matters affecting the community. (The term 'networking' includes telephony as well as data.) The UCISA-NG group works closely with JANET (UK), which has representation on the committee.
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/ng.aspx

UCISA Procurement Group (PG)
Lesley Beddie, Chair of UCISA-PG
An advisory body to develop value for money in ICT purchasing. The group exists to promote and develop value for money in the procurement and maintenance of computing hardware, software, services and associated products in the higher education community and to track technological developments in the ICT marketplace.
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/pg.aspx

UCISA Staff Development Group (SDG)
Trevor Potten, Chair of UCISA-SDG
Information and activities on the training and personal development of staff. The UCISA Staff Development Group exists for the purpose of enhancing technical skills and personal development of all staff involved in the support and delivery of information systems (IS). It seeks to achieve this by providing a forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the provision of IS training and staff development within the constituency that UCISA represents The UCISA-SDG collaborates with other bodies involved in staff development and the delivery of training in IS-related areas, and with the other UCISA groups. It also provides a base for further co-operation between HEIs where appropriate, particularly in relation to best practice.
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/sdg.aspx

UCISA Support Services Group (SSG)
Amber Miro, Chair of UCISA-SSG
The purpose of UCISA-SSG is to help UCISA members get the most from information, technology-enhanced learning, and computer mediated communication systems.
Our remit includes:

• consideration of the 'customer experience' in all our activities
• reaching out to non-management IT staff, to share experience and good practice
• organisation of events such as workshops and conferences across a diverse range of user support areas
• working closely with other UCISA groups were we can contribute our particular understanding and expertise of IT customer support

http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/ssg.aspx

HESA Mind Map
Rachel Shapton, Head of Data Management at HESA
HESA sits at the centre of a complex web of stakeholders and processes. Adopting one of the most commonly-used business analysis tools, this poster uses a mind map to encapsulate the breadth and range of HESA's activities and interactions.

UCISA Award for Excellence 2009 Winner - iBorrow: A Large-scale Self-service Student Laptop Loan Scheme
Ian Ellery, Canterbury Christ Church University
During 2008/09 Canterbury Christ Church University embarked on a project to create a large £35M new library and student support centre and key to this was provision of innovative ICT for student use. As part of the design process, the University was keen to provide as much mobile IT as possible, as well as normal fixed PCs.
The iBorrow project had two clear objectives:

• To make available 200 laptop computers for self-service loan for use within a new £35M library and learning centre. With the creation of flexible learning spaces containing different types of furniture these would allow students to work in ways and places of their choosing.
• To use Wi-Fi positional tracking and anonymous user data to collect a range of empirical information relating to how mobile technologies are being used within a learning centre. To then analyse this data to determine how a diverse student corpus (incorporating mature, part-time, work-based cohorts) engage and interact withdifferent spaces and technologies as part of their learning within the building.

UCISA Staff Development Group Best Practice Award 2009 Winner - RedWelly Staff Development Project
Trudy Newton, University of Derby
Derby’s Red Welly project demonstrates an innovative approach using a Ground Force style renovation of four garden/outside spaces near the campuses in Derby and Buxton as part of their staff development programme. The project, which involved sixty staff, aimed to develop collaboration across the Department, enable individual self-awareness in terms of preferred behaviour and communication style, to create an environment where each team member is dependent on each other to achieve a result with a specific outcome and as a result to develop networking skills.
The University has established a set of core values, which focus on working together and the University’s place in the communities around its campuses. This project ties in with these values by combining learning and development with delivering an end project, which has benefited the local community. The project has delivered real benefit to the Learning and Information Services department. Individuals not currently in management positions demonstrated both project management skills and leadership qualities that are transferable to the workplace. Above all it generated a greater sense of team identity, more understanding of the challenges faced by others, and recognition that all are working towards the same goals.

Building a New Data Centre and Moving Services Without Anyone Noticing
Pauline Woods-Wilson, Lancaster University
Lancaster University has invested in a new Building comprising 5 Data Centre rooms to house central IT services and High End Computing for Research, plus office accommodation for 90 Information Systems Services staff. It has also refurbished a secondary Data Centre elsewhere on campus as a fail-over site. Investment in Server Virtualisation, a new Storage Area Network and a new Campus Fibre ring around campus has greatly eased the Decant of IT services from the old Computer Centre to the new Data Centre rooms.

Oxford on iTunes U
Melissa Highton, University of Oxford
The University’s website on iTunes U http://itunes.ox.ac.uk launched in October 2008, is an easily searchable, attractively designed and free-to-use website that brings the University to life through the use of audio and video, rather than the traditional web media of the written word and photographs. All the material offered via iTunesU is free-to-download. The range of audio and video recordings reflects the breadth of high quality teaching and research across the University. The service is very popular, attracting a global audience of the intellectually curious who subscribed to, and downloaded, over 2 million items in just over a year.

The Mobile Campus Assistant Project
Nikki Rogers, University of Bristol
The Mobile Campus Assistant project has created a demonstrator mobile-friendly web application (see http://mca.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/) that makes time and location sensitive information available to University of Bristol students via their mobile and GPS-enabled smart phones. It enables students on the move to get quick answers to questions such as

• Where is my nearest wireless hotspot?
• Which library is currently open?
• When is the next bus to the halls of residence?
• Where is the nearest available PC?
• What events are happening today?

Source code for the software is also freely available online for anyone to use, together with prototype applications for iPhone and Android users.

ESISS (EMMAN Shared Information Security Service)
Peter Darby, EMMAN
ESISS provides a complete portfolio of Information Security services to the UK academic sector. These services are designed to reduce the risk of significant information security breaches and reduce the associated costs of prevention, management, remediation and audit activities. Information Security is a rapidly evolving pressure for organisations. By pooling the sector requirements into a shared service, we can offer a better capability than each individual organisation is likely to be able to provide in isolation