And on top that, UQ relaunched a new leadership capability framework program and has a gender equality action plan in place.
“We’ve got strategies that we’re working on to further reduce the university’s gender pay gap,” Vaughan said. “That’s been incrementally decreasing year on year but we’re continuing to look to see how we can accelerate progress in that area.”
Key trends in higher education
Vaughn described the changes that have been happening in the HR sector, particularly in higher education.
“HR teams have been on a continuous journey of evolving from a transactional-based service offering, where we make sure people get paid and do the basics, to a journey of providing more and more strategic support to the organisation,” he said.
“The COVID pandemic has almost accelerated organisations needs to draw upon insights and strategic contribution from HR. Particularly the way we’ve had to flex our workforce through COVID in terms of flexibility, but also potentially, whether we’ve got the right size of workforce as a result of what’s occurred over time.