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We needed to offer better wellbeing and workload support

The University-wide Academic Career and Reward Framework project's dedicated workstream on academic workload aims to achieve a better balance of activities for academics, promote and encourage departments to engage with workload models, and enable appropriate reward and recognition across that balance of activities.

The University invested in an Employee Assistance Programme which allows staff to access support and benefits like counselling and legal support.

The Thriving at Oxford programme delivered a wellbeing week with a multitude of events. Survey data related to wellbeing, including mental health, provided insight that shaped the Thriving at Oxford Action Plan 2024/25 and is being used in the development of the new Work-related stress policy, which will play an important part in how we tackle workload and other causes of work-related stress

The 2025 survey

The Staff Experience Survey 2025 is launching in March.

Keep a look-out in the Weekly Bulletin for updates and further information.

Survey impact on our EDI actions

Responses from the previous Staff Experience Survey were used to develop the themes and actions for the new Athena Swan / EDI action plan. Within the new plan, there are multiple actions which will be monitored for success via responses to the next survey.

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