AUA Good Practice Guides
ATEM regularly buys consignments of the Good Practice Guides published by the Association of University
Administrators (United Kingdom and Ireland).
These are available to members from the ATEM Secretariat
at a cost of $10 each including freight and handling. They can also be bought over the counter at the Annual Conference.
The books are well written, helpful and concise, averaging between 20-30 pages in length.
Currently in Stock in Australia
- Milestones Along the Critical Path: Project Management in Higher Education
by Tony Barton (a design and project engineer in the European
construction industry with special experience in higher education including being head of an academic department), and Paul Temple (a partner
with Universitas Higher Education Management Consultants and previously head of the planning division at the University of London).
- Just a Minute: A Guide to Committee Servicing
by Jean Grier (Assistant Secretary in the Faculty of Social Sciences
at the University of Edinburgh, who has recently worked with the Higher Education Staff Development Agency on a training package for staff who serve committees).
- Can I Quote You on That? A Guide to Working With the Media
by Frank Albrighton (a senior External Relations staffer at the
University of East Anglia and then the University of Birmingham, and an Editor of the CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement) and Sarah
Watts (Press Officer with the University of Southampton, and before that, a news and current affairs producer with the BBC).
- Supporting Research: from proposal to publication
by Steff Hazelhurst, (Unit Manager of the Thomas Coram Research Institute of
Education at the University of London).
- Managing Change: A guide for those working in higher education
by Kathy Fowler (College Registrar in the College of Physical
Sciences at the University of Aberdeen).
- An Accident Waiting to Happen: a guide to Health and Safety
by Sue Robinson (Facilities Manager at the University of Bradford).
- What is it you do again?
A guide to departmental administration
- A Sense of Freedom: Committee servicing and the freedom of information acts
by Jean Grier, University of Edinburgh

Also Available in the UK
- Managing People: a helpful guide for everyone with a supervisory or managerial role3.
- Open Daze: a guide to organising Open Days and other public events
- Developing People: on organising staff development programs, self-development and encouraging participation among the reluctant
- Interviewing People: advice on planning and conducting interviews
- Figuring It Out: an administrator's guide to some simple statistical techniques and the presentation of results
- Cheques and Balances: a guide to the presentation of business plans with a glossary de-mystifying the terminology
- Alma Matters: A guide to alumni relations and their development
- The Time of Your Life: a guide to time management
- Supporting Research: highlighting the complexity of the research manager's function
- I Know it's Here Somewhere: a guide to filing
- Striking a Bargain: a concisely presented guide to preparing for negotiations
- An Auditor Calls: a guide for budget holders, explaining the role of internal audit
- Going Places: everything you always wanted to know about study visits
- Wringing the Changes: practical advice of how to manage change
- Time for Lunch: managing stress at work
- Problems? No Problem!: A practical guide to problem solving
- Weathering the Storm: a practical guide to crisis management
A full set of Good Practice Guides currently in stock is available for $AUD175; and the partial set Nos 21-28 listed on the web site
below is available for $AUD65 from:
The AUA National Office
The University of Manchester
Manchester UK M13 9PL
United Kingdom.
www.aua.ac.uk/publications/gpg