Loughborough UCU

Tag: Staff Survey

  • Staff Experience Survey

    We encourage all members to complete the 2025 Staff Experience Survey.  While we recognise the limitations of the survey, many of which you have raised with us in previous years, it remains a key tool that the University uses to assess how well it’s performing as an employer. 

    We are therefore keen to ensure that all voices are heard for the most rounded results.  Look out for an email from People Insight, and make your views clear.

  • Report from LUCU Staff Survey

    Thank you for engaging with LUCU’s follow-up staff survey, which closed in July. This was run at the request of members, to build on the University’s staff survey and deepen our understanding of the experience of working at Loughborough. This will help the branch to focus on what matters to staff most.

    Of those who filled out the survey (response rate: 21%), results suggest that while colleagues are relatively satisfied with their autonomy and relationships with line managers, other issues such as pay and benefits and rewards and recognition have less positive results. Findings also suggest mixed feelings toward wellbeing support and some of the University’s structures.

    We will share these results with the University and have now been invited to feed into the University’s next Staff Survey – and will be able to draw on feedback on the Staff Survey itself when doing so. Thank you once again for taking part and helping us produce these useful outcomes.

  • A Short Survey from Loughborough UCU

    As you will know, Loughborough University carries out an annual survey of staff members. In its summary of the latest results, the University notes that “Loughborough exceeds the higher education benchmark in eight out of the nine themes, with ‘Autonomy’, ‘Enablement’, and ‘Leadership’ significantly exceeding the benchmark.” The summary also notes that the University made its most substantial improvements under “Wellbeing” and “Reward and Recognition”.

    Some staff, however, have expressed frustration with the survey question wordings, noting that the questionnaire results do not seem to reflect day-to-day experiences working at the University. We have received several complaints, for example, about the claimed improvements in “Reward and Recognition” in a context in which pay has decreased 30% in real terms over the past decade. 

    As a follow up to the latest staff survey results, Loughborough UCU is therefore launching its own short survey to help us to better understand the lived experiences of staff at the University.

    The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete, and the results will help inform LUCU’s work to improve working conditions at the University. The survey is open to all staff, so please do pass this article on to non-members as well. 

    Note that the survey results will be anonymous and no identifying information will be collected – though you may be prompted to log in to your university Microsoft account if you aren’t already signed in. This is just to make sure that no one accidentally submits twice.

    Fill out the survey here, by 30th June, and help us feedback to management.

  • LU Staff Experience Survey

    The LUCU Committee would like to encourage members to complete the Staff Experience Survey.

    Although there can be some scepticism about staff satisfaction surveys, the University views the survey as a key means for taking a staff “temperature check”.

    We are therefore keen to ensure that a representative set of experiences and views are reflected in the survey. The higher the response rate, the more meaningful the results will be and the easier it will be for us to lobby management on the issues raised. We therefore also encourage you to respond as honestly as you feel able to, without identifying specific issues that are personal to you. Using the free text sections is a good way to highlight concerns that aren’t covered elsewhere.

    If you haven’t yet filled in the survey, you should be receiving reminder emails from People Insight that include your personal link. Responses are anonymised by People Insight before results are fed back to the University and your School or Service.

    The survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete and closes on the 15th of December.

    LUCU Committee