Professional services staff: supporting global and local challenges

Welcome to the fourth issue of the year. This issue provides a varied set of articles that illustrate the broad scope of issues facing professional university managers. It also sees the publication of our first book review for some time. As mentioned previously, please do consider writing a book review for your colleagues. A book review is an easier way to start sharing your writing, can gain you a book from a publisher for free and provides information to all of us on books we might like to delve into further – very important considering how much books are these days!

Before discussing some of the current issue content, I want to mention the upcoming Special Issue on ‘Managing Human Resources’...