“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
Its purpose is to assist staff and students in anticipating, avoiding, preventing and resolving disputes.
See our model Facilitated Discussion toolkit.
A process in which disputing parties seek to improve understanding and build agreement with the assistance of a trained mediator working with the disputing parties an impartial third party.
A practice that is voluntary and aims to offer disputing parties the opportunity to be fully listened to, to hear each other's perspectives and to allow them to decide how to resolve their own dispute.
In terms of the University of Dundee/Dundee College Collaboration Agreement, Dundee College contributes to the edr Strategy Group, assists with and contributes to edr development events and mediators' CPD. The University also offers edr services to the College.
The edr Conference, "The Value of Resolving Disputes", took place on Tuesday 10 November 2009, 10.30am-3.30pm at West Park Conference Centre. Visit Conference Site >>
Scottish Mediation Network (SMN) is working to embed mediation into the way that conflict and disputes of all forms are handled in Scotland.
See powerpoint presentation by Fiona O'Donnell to CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) about edr at Dundee.
See our External webpage for more mediation webpages.
A meeting of the edr Strategy Group was held on Wednesday 5 December. See our Practitioners' Group webpage for further details.
A meeting of the HE/FE Mediation Forum was held on Friday 9 November 2012 at City of Glasgow College.
View our edr Strategy document 2011-2014.
Early Dispute Resolution (edr) Developments - Annual report to the Human Resources Committee and University Court, May 2012.
Dates for Practitioners' and Strategy Group meetings are now available along with details of topics for each meeting.
The University of Dundee's edr team and Marshalls ACM have designed a 10 minute online quiz to provide tips for ways of engaging with difficulties in the workplace. Available for all staff to try.
Two OPD training sessions for staff have been produced by our edr Workshop Skills Group. These sessions will be held on 17 and 31 January 2013. For more information contact the OPD Office.
The next retreat for our trained mediators will be held on 27 and 28 February 2013 at Dundee College.
21 and 22 November 2013 at the Gardyne Theatre, Dundee College
Find out more about the edr Outline Strategy, the formal launch of the edr Initiative, Training Resources and the edr Strategy Group.
The value of the use of mediation is principally a quicker, simpler and more cost-efficient way to solve disputes. It allows for taking into account a wider range of interests of the parties, a greater chance of reaching an agreement which will be voluntarily respected
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