University Registrars Talking About Stuff

A series of podcasts in which two Registrars (or similar) talk about higher ed stuff. Hosted by Dr Paul Greatrix, the podcast has a lot to offer for everyone working in universities and colleges.Higher education is a wonderful and frightening world and university Registrars (and others) have much to say about most of it. Across the 50 episodes in Season 1 and into Season 2 there is much to enjoy and learn from a wide range of sector leaders in the UK and beyond.

Recent Episodes
  • S2 Ep19: Episode 19: ‘I wish I knew then what I know now’
    May 12, 2025 – 01:06:34
  • S2 Ep18: Episode 18: Law and Leadership in a Cold Climate
    Apr 17, 2025 – 43:03
  • S2 Ep17: Episode 17: Bridging the Atlantic with Strategy and Data
    Apr 9, 2025 – 42:09
  • S2 Ep16: Episode 16: Knowing Me, Knowing You
    Oct 29, 2024 – 38:32
  • S2 Ep15: Registrarologue #6: Bonus content - Cut Regulation, Save Money
    May 12, 2024 – 11:26
  • S2 Ep14: Episode 14: A lifetime in academia and music
    Jan 6, 2024 – 33:39
  • S2 Ep13: Episode 13: From Teenage Kicks to University Secretary
    Sep 18, 2023 – 39:36
  • S2 Ep12: Registrarologue #5: Bonus content – Too Much Information?
    Aug 18, 2023 – 12:24
  • S2 Ep11: Episode 11: Data, Drums and Other Diversions
    Aug 7, 2023 – 33:05
  • S2 Ep10: Registrarologue #4: Bonus content - The unbearable heaviness of regulation
    Aug 4, 2023 – 09:12
  • S2 Ep9: Registrarologue #3: Bonus content - Graduation Time!
    Aug 2, 2023 – 10:18
  • S2 Ep8: Registrarologue #2: Bonus content - That Sinking Feeling
    Jul 28, 2023 – 05:37
  • S2 Ep7: Registrarologue #1: Bonus content - Cats on Campus
    Jul 28, 2023 – 07:59
  • S2 Ep6: Episode 6: Golden Governance and the Registrarial Bucket List
    Mar 17, 2023 – 34:47
  • S2 Ep5: Episode 5: University governance - mysterious, omnipresent and sexy?
    Mar 9, 2023 – 38:16
  • S2 Ep4: Episode 4: Sporting Scenes, Sector Challenges and Royal Remains
    Mar 3, 2023 – 34:34
  • S2 Ep3: Episode 3: Transformation, More Transformation and Tortoise Time
    Feb 25, 2023 – 47:37
  • S2 Ep2: Episode 2: From HEFCE heaven to good governance (and bidets)
    Feb 16, 2023 – 39:50
  • S2 Ep1: Episode 1: Leadership legacies and avoiding the chasm of emptiness
    Jan 13, 2023 – 41:15
  • S1 Ep50: Episode 50: Acronymphilia - from FEC to HERA to UUK
    Jan 9, 2023 – 40:09
  • S1 Ep49: Episode 49: Spoons, Zombies and Fancy Gowns
    Nov 30, 2022 – 37:16
  • S1 Ep48: Episode 48: "A newspaper for people who work in universities"
    Oct 17, 2022 – 52:18
  • S1 Ep47: Episode 47: From Collaborative Cornwall to Wonderful Wales
    Oct 11, 2022 – 34:10
  • S1 Ep46: Episode 46: From fighting fees to supporting good governance
    Sep 27, 2022 – 45:29
  • S1 Ep45: Episode 45: London Universities 0 - University of Hull 4
    Sep 21, 2022 – 35:16
  • S1 Ep44: Episode 44: Building a new university overseas, quality matters and Bob Dylan's graduation robes shock
    Sep 6, 2022 – 36:10
  • S1 Ep43: Episode 43: Warming up an HE cold spot and supporting a challenged generation of students
    Aug 23, 2022 – 29:53
  • S1 Ep42: Episode 42: Emergency services, student occupations and intelligent regulation
    Jun 13, 2022 – 35:58
  • S1 Ep41: Episode 41: From farmer's boy to vice-chancellor, an extraordinary Higher Ed journey
    May 26, 2022 – 37:00
  • S1 Ep40: Episode 40: Geology, gloom avoidance and government lobbying
    May 3, 2022 – 35:17
  • S1 Ep39: Episode 39: From UK universities to Universities UK and back again
    Apr 26, 2022 – 34:45
  • S1 Ep38: Episode 38: Developing a new university in Finland and real international higher ed
    Apr 19, 2022 – 35:57
  • S1 Ep37: Episode 37: From Scotland to the world and back again
    Mar 19, 2022 – 33:42
  • S1 Ep36: Episode 36: The strategic deployment of steel toe-capped boots and a hard hat in higher ed
    Mar 12, 2022 – 33:46
  • S1 Ep35: Episode 35: Scandinavian perspectives: a view from Sweden's Longest University
    Feb 28, 2022 – 42:39
  • S1 Ep34: Episode 34: Changing places - from the RAF to the University of Sunderland
    Jan 9, 2022 – 33:21
  • S1 Ep33: Episode 33: State of the nation - university estates, hybrid working and much much more
    Dec 5, 2021 – 35:11
  • S1 Ep32: Episode 32: Going Dutch - Higher Ed developments in the Netherlands and beyond
    Nov 7, 2021 – 39:48
  • S1 Ep31: Episode 31: The Tyne of his life - Newcastle's Registrar on the big admin issues, then and now
    Oct 23, 2021 – 46:19
  • S1 Ep30: Episode 30 - The Registrar's baton, life down under and farming futures
    Sep 3, 2021 – 35:34
  • S1 Ep29: Episode 29: From fish research to the dark side, civic harmony and regulatory relief
    Jul 18, 2021 – 32:13
  • S1 Ep28: Episode 28: Career reflections, Covid consequences and a very long Corridor
    May 29, 2021 – 35:52
  • S1 Ep27: Episode 27: Convening power, planning for the long term and growing future HE leaders
    Mar 22, 2021 – 31:37
  • S1 Ep26: Episode 26: Quality counts, the work of the QAA at home and abroad and the value of HE
    Mar 7, 2021 – 38:51
  • S1 Ep25: Episode 25: Finland, Pharmacies and the Future for Higher Ed in Europe
    Feb 28, 2021 – 38:47
  • S1 Ep24: Episode 24: collaboration, inclusion and optimism for the post-Covid HE sector
    Feb 21, 2021 – 30:30
  • S1 Ep23: Episode 23: The latest episode of University Registrars Talking About Stuff - Higher Ed in that London, preparing for a meteorite strike and an end to ministerial edicts
    Nov 29, 2020 – 32:18
  • S1 Ep22: Episode 22: the Oxford experience, the importance of relationships and pulling together to deliver success (and possibly a vaccine) in the Covid response
    Nov 22, 2020 – 30:41
  • S1 Ep21: Episode 21: From the Civil Service to Sheffield Hallam, avoiding us and them and moving out of the covid crisis to address the civic challenge for our universities
    Oct 24, 2020 – 32:47
  • S1 Ep20: Episode 20: Gifted amateurs, lockdown art and design, UAL’s delayed term start and new ways of working for professional services.
    Sep 28, 2020 – 28:31
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