On Wednesday 22 January, access to University House will be restricted to staff only and WMG buildings will move to a single point of access. This is in response to a planned rally on Wednesday.

Find out more about Alison and the Institute of Advanced Study.

Great news: a new upgrade to our information security operations, from our new provider TCS, marks a major step towards enhancing our cyber security by improving our proactive threat detection, monitoring, and response.

The Information and Digital Group (IDG) is moving service desk telephone support to a new provider, to extend and improve support for IT issues. You’ll still be able to access support through the same service desk phone number and online portal. Read more about the change and the benefits it brings.

How can we learn from each other – and make use of opportunities and resources on campus – to help support wellbeing in our departments? Denver Thorpe, Staff Wellbeing Co-ordinator for Wellbeing Support Services (WSS), explains.

Hope can help us to overcome obstacles – and higher levels of hope have been linked to improved resilience and overall wellbeing. Inspired by research from Warwick’s Psychology department, we dive into three practical ways you can be more hopeful, at work or home.

What can we do to try and encourage our bodies to rest, relax, and slip into a deep, rejuvenating slumber, night after night? Sleep expert Professor Michelle Miller – Professor of Biochemical Medicine, and Sleep, Health & Society Programme Lead – shares her top tips.

If you’d like to make friends and be part of a supportive mini community, there are lots of staff groups to get involved with here at Warwick – like the disabled staff network and the carers network. Take a look at the full list and read real-life stories.

Want to meet colleagues from across the University, for informal discussion and networking? Whether you work from home, on campus, or a hybrid of the two, Coffee Roulette is for you. Sign up before Friday 31 January to network.