Getting to know Corporate Services Group

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Did you know that Corporate Services Group (CSG) is the University’s largest of professional services group, with more than 3,000 colleagues across 13 departments?

CSG provides essential, behind-the-scenes services that support and shape life at the University. It plays a key role in ensuring that we remain a great place to work, study and research, thanks to a wide range of expertise across the following departments:

  • Accommodation, Catering & Events
  • Bioresearch & Veterinary Services
  • Data-Driven Innovation
  • Edinburgh Innovations
  • Edinburgh Research Office
  • Edinburgh University Press
  • Estates
  • Health & Safety
  • Human Resources
  • Social Responsibility & Sustainability
  • Strategic Change Service
  • University Sport & Exercise

To help showcase the impact Corporate Services colleagues have, the latest group newsletter – CSG Connect – seeks to tell the collective story of the group through the eyes of 13 colleagues.

Read CSG Connect

Five colleagues sit around a meeting table. One is presenting a laptop and the others are laughing at what's on screen.
The University’s EDI team (clockwise L-R): Sara Medel Jimenez, Sebastian Bromelow, Federico Marchiolli, Ellie DeLappe, and Caroline Wallace.
Staff member practices CPR on a dummy, with a Health and Safety presentation in the background
Sarah from Health & Safety provides First Aid training for University staff
A group photo of the Data Driven Innovation team
The Data-Driven Innovation team is based in the recently opened Edinburgh Futures Institute
Server holds wine glass up to inspect it, inside the Brasserie restaurant
The Brasserie Restaurant at Pollock is part of Accommodation, Catering & Events
Staff member walks through Pleasance gym
Aisling is part of Sport & Exercise reception team at the Pleasance
The Department of Social Responsibility & Sustainability hold up the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals
The Department of Social Responsibility & Sustainability hold up the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals
A group of colleagues sit around a table in conversation, in front of a projector. Another colleague writes on the whiteboard.
The Student Enterprise team in Edinburgh Innovations coordinating another year of vibrant activity
Four colleagues stand in front of a book case which is topped with a sign reading Edinburgh University Press. One colleague holds up a journal.
Edinburgh University Press’ philosophy publishing team talk about its latest books
Two female cleaners laughing
Michele, Cleaning Supervisor (L) and Audrey, Cleaner (R), both from Estates
A group of colleagues in conversation
Strategic Change manages the University’s portfolio of large change projects
A woman talks to another in front of a world map
Aynslie from Occupational Health within Health & Safety provides advice to a colleague travelling overseas