University College Dublin

‘HR & L&D team of the year’

UCD’s HR Strategy Growing through people has driven an ambitious, interdependent and innovative programme of activity. In partnership with the university community and through a co‐create philosophy, the UCD HR team cultivated the conditions for transformational culture change which directly supports the university’s mission and develops UCD as a great place to work and thrive.

The judges found this was an outstanding example of a team working together to deliver HR Transformation. The team, all personally impacted by the change, are now 2 years in and have achieved 31 of 38 projects, and recognise that the work will take another 2 years to embed. The team demonstrated a lot of stakeholder engagement, created a new HR service delivery model, leading an outstanding transformation in a tough sector.

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This category was kindly sponsored by Titan Wellness.

Highly commended

ESB Engineering / Major Projects

‘Building a brighter future with students of Grange Community College’

The judges wanted to call out a remarkable project full of passion and enthusiasm that made a unique contribution to the local community. It showed how HR not only champions better workplaces but a strong team that worked together to have a durable social impact and make a unique contribution to the local community.