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• Category: Briefing Papers
  • Freedom of speech and academic freedom – finding the balance in higher education
  • What to expect in Employment Law in 2023
  • Insight from SUMS: Curriculum Management Systems
  • What to Expect in Employment Law in Higher Education for 2022
  • How to Lead Effectively through Disruptive Change
  • Change Starts Now: Making HEIs Racially Inclusive
  • Business Continuity in a Changed World
  • Crystal Ball Gazing: What is the Future for Handling Exceptional Circumstances?
  • Working Well – During and Beyond Covid-19
  • Silver Linings: How the Response to Covid-19 Will Change Higher Education Forever
  • The changing face of HE service delivery: a ‘how to’ guide for implementing change
  • The Class of 2020: Graduating through Covid-19
  • Leading through Adversity: the Impact of Covid-19 on University Finance
  • Enabling Research, Enterprise and Innovation During Covid-19
  • 2020: A Space (and Timetabling) Odyssey
  • Harnessing the Winds of Change: Transformation During Covid-19
  • The Impact of Covid-19 on Student Services
  • Crying out for clarity: unpacking the prospect experience in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis
  • The Impact of COVID-19 on Teaching, Learning & Assessment
  • Human impact: how policy, culture and people strategies have guided HE through the Covid-crisis and point to a more agile future
  • Digital Education Options for the 2020/21 Academic Year
  • Purchasing Card Use in Universities
• Category: Coaching & Professional Development Archive
  • The importance of coaching in higher education
  • Women in Higher Education Leadership: Reflections from International Women’s Day 2022
  • Delivering Effective Change as a Programme or Project Sponsor in Higher Education
  • Talking Heads – Coaching for Academics and the Professional Services through SUMS
  • Enhancing Your Workforce Capability During Covid-19
  • Coaching: Enhancing Your Workforce Capability
  • Be All You Can Be with SUMS Professional Development Support
  • We’ve always done it this way!
• Category: Digital Transformation Archive
  • The SUMS Group hosts Cloud migration in higher education event
  • How to Avoid Costly Mistakes in Higher Education IT Procurement
  • The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Tomorrow in Higher Education
  • Creating the Right Digital Learning Strategy in Higher Education
  • Opportunities to Provide Authentic, Inclusive and Engaging Digital Assessment
  • Playing the long-game: learning from the quick wins for the long-term solution
  • Re-imagining the Prospective Student Journey: ‘What Does Good Look Like?’
  • Preparing for Success when Teaching Online: The social dimension.
  • The Digital University Part 3: New Opportunities for Growth
  • The Campus for the Future: Making the Right Investments
  • The Digital University Part 2: Putting People First
  • The Digital University Part 1: Saving Space with New Ways of Working
  • The Campus for the Future: A Student’s Favourite Study Place?
  • What is a ‘Digital Culture’, Really?
• Category: Efficiencies, Change & Transformation Archive
  • Getting your sea legs
  • The Tensions and Complexities of TOM Design in Higher Education
  • Why Every University Needs a TOM (and Who is TOM Anyway?)
  • Change Management in Higher Education: Pre-, During and Post-Pandemic
  • Race, Ethnicity and Sustainable Change in Higher Education: A Personal and Professional Perspective
  • Resource Allocation Models: The Linchpin of a Successful University
  • Getting Where You Need to Be: Target Operating Models for Universities
  • Thoughtful Change Leadership: When Communication is Not Enough
  • The Future is Inter-disciplinary: Thoughts from the HESPA Conference 2020
  • Beyond the Transformation Programme
  • Brief Insights from the AUA Managing Change in HE Open Forum: Approaching Change in a Changing Sector
  • What is a Benefit?
  • Financial Efficiencies – Is your University Fit for the Future?
  • Preventing the failure of Change Programmes
• Category: Human Resources Archive
  • Because we’re worth it? SUMS Senior Salary Benchmarking Survey
  • Intentional organisation design to support high performance
  • What to expect in Employment Law 2024
  • Being a fertility-friendly employer
  • Reinventing the HR Operating Model
  • Workforce planning: playing the long game
  • CUPA Conference Reflections: HR capabilities
  • CUPA Conference reflections: performance, development, and reward
  • CUPA Conference reflections: EVP, talent, and engagement
  • SUMS launches new Salary Benchmarking Service for the HE sector
  • Why use Psychometric Assessments?
  • Organisational Culture and Change in Higher Education
  • A How-To Guide for Effective Workforce Planning in the Higher Education Sector
  • The Spirit is Willing… The Road to Diversity in University Marketing Teams and the Toolkit to Get There
• Category: Marketing & Student Recruitment Archive
  • Engaging your academic community in academic portfolio review doesn’t have to be like herding cats
  • Academic Portfolio Reviews: Beware the long tail!
  • You Say You Want a Revolution: Reflections from University Marketeers
  • Student recruitment and conversion in a post-pandemic world: reimagining the prospective student journey
  • Tackling the Growth Paradox in Universities: How Marketing Holds the Key
  • No Room for Complacency in the University Sector
• Category: Mental Health & Wellbeing Archive
  • SUMS’ final report published from our evaluation of Office for Students’ statement of expectations
  • Tackling Sexual Violence, Harassment and Mental Health in Higher Education.
• Category: New and Post-Pandemic Ways of Working Archive
  • Post-Covid Workplace Culture – Top Ten Tips for Defining Your ‘New Normal’ Ways of Working
  • To Boldly Go… Space the Final Frontier: What New Ways of Working Mean for Campus Life as We Know It
  • Video Killed the Radio Star: How Hybrid is Changing Ways of Working
  • Ways of Working: Delivering Effective and Energising Virtual Workshops
  • Post-Pandemic Ways of Working
• Category: Procurement Services Archive
  • From Pasta to Procurement: A Student’s Journey to Understanding the Need for Responsible Procurement in Higher Education
  • Managing Risk in Higher Education
  • Ensuring Content is Accessible to Students during COVID-19
  • Expecting the Unexpected: A Lesson from the Coronavirus Outbreak
  • Helping University Procurement Departments Prepare for Brexit
• Category: Space Management & Timetabling Archive
  • Higher Education Timetabling & Procurement event success
  • Stick or twist? Is it time to change your Timetabling System?
  • Aligning Learning and Teaching Space for a Better University Experience
  • The Campus of the Future: An Interplay Between Virtual and Physical Environments
• Category: Strategy, Planning and Transformation Portfolios Archive
  • Integrating climate into strategy and planning: Where are we? Where are we going?
  • Civic mission: impossible? Complex, yes – but worthwhile for your institution and its stakeholders
  • Turning partnerships into outcomes or… Influencing the Influencers
  • Delivering Strategy: Why You Need a Holistic Approach
  • Developing An Effective Strategy in Higher Education: The Critical Stages for Success
• Category: Student Journey Archive
  • Harnessing the Revolution: How Service Design Can Transform Higher Education
  • Understanding the Apprentice Lifecycle in Universities
  • COVID-19 and Distance Learning
  • Tackling the Tough Issues: Widening Participation, the Student Voice and Student Service Provision
  • A How-To Guide for Universities: Responding to the OfS Call for Effective Access and Participation Plans
• Category: Sustainability Archive
  • Beyond the lecture hall: the surprising environmental role of universities
  • Making strides on your journey to Net Zero
  • Creating Sustainable Universities by Taking a Whole Systems Approach
  • Net Zero Carbon Goals: Is Business Travel Taking You In The Wrong Direction?
• Category: Teaching & Learning Archive
  • An Apprenticeship Lifecycle Tailored to Your University
  • eExams: Evolution or Revolution?
  • Are 2-Year Accelerated Degrees Viable?
• Category: Uncategorised
  • Looking for answers to your international student recruitment conundrums? Look beyond the numbers to soft intelligence.
  • SUMS Group successfully adds student representation to its Board
  • Understanding the benefits and costs of what universities do
  • Designing a better future for HE: SUMS Consulting Annual Review 2023
  • COP28 and the hidden impact: getting to grips with Scope 3 in higher education
  • The important roles of Professional Dialogue and Dialogic Leadership
  • HEPI Comparative Study of Higher Education Academic Staff Terms and Conditions
  • New Head of Procurement joins SUMS Group
  • An unlikely cash drain – are procurement thresholds costing universities?
  • New Head of Marketing and Communications joins SUMS Group
  • Student Number Controls: friend or foe?
  • People Focused Priorities in 2023
  • SUMS Group Appoints New Head of SUPC
  • How 5 Simple Questions Can Develop Your Staff and Enrich One-to-Ones
  • SUMS Group’s Strategic Partnership with EAUC
  • Job Opportunity – SUMS Group Data Analyst
  • SUMS’ Sector Evaluation of Harassment and Sexual Misconduct for the OfS concludes further regulation is needed
  • SUMS Consulting Annual Conference 2022 – Postponed
  • SUMS Group’s Commitment to Responsible Procurement
  • Job Opportunity – Associate Consultants in Wellbeing and Mental Health Services
  • Registration of Interest for Upcoming Roundtable Events
  • Hear from Leaders in Higher Education on International Women’s Day
  • SUMS Consulting Appointed to Evaluate the Impact of OfS’ Statement of Expectations
  • The SUMS Group Partners with EAUC to Deliver In-Depth Expertise in Sustainability to the Education Sector
  • Your University Transformation Portfolio: Align, Prioritise, Focus
  • Win-Win-Win: Why Your Team Should Consider Hosting an Intern
  • SUMS Summer Showcase 2020-21
  • A Look in the Rear View Mirror: Top 5 Insights from SUMS Consulting
  • Universities as agents of social change: what are we really doing to make sure Black lives matter?
  • Webinar Series: Student recruitment and conversion in a post-pandemic world: reimagining the prospective student journey
  • SUMS Builds Team to Support UK Universities
  • Silver Linings Playbook – Opportunities to Transform the Sector During Covid-19
  • A Message from our CEO, Bernarde Hyde
  • COVID-19 Update for SUMS Members and Clients
  • Value for Money for Students: Understanding a Student’s Motivations in the Extinction Rebellion Era
  • SUMS Annual Conference 2019 – The Growth Paradox in Higher Education
  • Ensuring Universities are Fit for the Future with SUMS
  • Understanding Augar
  • Horizon Scanning: Complete the Sector Survey on Your Institution’s Approach
  • Horizon Scanning – SUMS Collaborative Study

Eventbrite Events

• SUMS Associate Day - April 2024
• SUMS Annual Conference 2024
• Timetabling & Procurement - Lunchtime Series: Procurement Best Practice
• Timetabling & Procurement - Lunchtime Series: EventMap
• Timetabling & Procurement - Lunchtime Series: TimeEdit
• Timetabling & Procurement - Lunchtime Series: Infosilem Berger-Levrault
• Timetabling & Procurement - Lunchtime Series: Semestry
• SUMS Consulting Senior Salary Benchmarking Service information webinar
• Timetabling & Procurement - Lunchtime Series: Celcat
• ‘Empowering Wellness’ webinar series with UHR
• Timetabling & Procurement - Lunchtime Series: TechOne Syllabus+
• SUMS Organisation Design Community of Practice Group
• The Cloud in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities
• SUMS Associate Day October 23
• Sustainability in Strategy and Planning
• Academic Registrars and Heads of Student Support Community of Practice
• SUMS Change Management Community of Practice Group
• SUMS Annual Conference 2023: The university of the future
• SUMS Organisational Design Community of Practice group
• SUMS Webinar:Tackling underrepresented roles and vertical segregation in HE
• Organisational Design Community of Practice (ODCOP) for strategic leaders and practitioners
• SMS Roundtable: Strategic Workforce Planning
• SUMS Associate Day
• Change Management Group
• On-Demand Recordings - SUMS Annual Conference 2021
• SUMS Roundtable: Strategic Workforce, Talent and Succession Planning
• SUMS Commercial Community of Practice Group
• EVENT POSTPONED - A SUMS Roundtable: Early Engagement for Effective Change Management
• SUMS Annual Conference 2022: The Sustainable University

Services

• Sustainability
• Strategy, Planning and Transformation Portfolios
• Human Resources (HR)
• New and Post-Pandemic Ways of Working
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategies for Universities
• Procurement Services
• Digital Transformation
• Marketing & Student Recruitment
• Teaching & Learning
• Research & Enterprise
• Space Management & Timetabling
• Efficiencies, Change & Transformation
• Student Journey
• Coaching & Professional Development

Events

• SUMS Annual Conference 2024
• SUMS Annual Conference 2022: The Sustainable University
• EVENT POSTPONED - A SUMS Roundtable: Early Engagement for Effective Change Management
• A SUMS Roundtable: Enabling Academic Leadership Through a Development Framework
• A SUMS Roundtable: Strategic Workforce, Talent and Succession Planning
• Office for Students: Preventing and Addressing Harassment and Sexual Misconduct - Roundtable 4
• Office for Students: Preventing and Addressing Harassment and Sexual Misconduct - Roundtable 3
• Office for Students: Preventing and Addressing Harassment and Sexual Misconduct - Roundtable 2
• A SUMS Roundtable: Enabling Impact through the Race Equality Charter
• Office for Students: Preventing and Addressing Harassment and Sexual Misconduct - Roundtable 1
• SUMS Commercial Community of Practice Group
• Academic Registrars and Heads of Student Support Community of Practice Group
• SUMS Change Community of Practice Group
• SUMS Commercial Community of Practice Group
• A SUMS Roundtable: Mental Health & Wellbeing Support in Higher Education
• Post-Pandemic Ways of Working in Higher Education: Routes to Success
• Thinking About a New Timetabling System? Bringing Together Perspectives on Procurement
• Why the Right Procurement Benchmarking is Key to Finance and Procurement Leaders
• Academic Registrars and Heads of Student Support Community of Practice Meeting
• SUMS Annual Conference 2021: Creating Campus Communities
• Virtual Facilitation: Delivering Effective and Energising Workshops Online
• Ensure Your University is Fit for the Future with SUMS Consulting
• Academic Registrars and Heads of Student Support Community of Practice
• Change Management Community of Practice Group
• Academic Registrars and Heads of Student Support Community of Practice
• Space Management Community of Practice
• Timetabling Community of Practice
• Silver Linings: Recovery Strategies for Educational Institutions
• Marketing Community of Practice Group
• Change Management Community of Practice
• Academic Registrars Community of Practice
• Change Management Community of Practice
• WEBINAR: #ChangeStartsNow: making HEIs racially inclusive
• Digital learning strategy: long-term opportunities for universities
• Online learning: how do we ensure students achieve their potential?
• Online learning: what different techniques can we adopt to engage students?
• Techniques for successful online learning: how do we rethink course design?
• An Analysis of Change Maturity in the Higher Education Sector
• WEBINAR: Playing the long-game: learning from the quick wins for the long-term solution
• WEBINAR: Proposed solutions: the quick wins
• WEBINAR: Cutting through the COVID noise: the need for transformation today
• WEBINAR: Timetabling Community of Practice
• WEBINAR: Balancing Cost Efficiency with the Human Impact
• WEBINAR: Developing Personal Resourcefulness in the Higher Education Setting, During COVID-19 and Beyond
• WEBINAR: Change Management Community of Practice
• WEBINAR: Change Management Community of Practice
• WEBINAR: Change Management Community of Practice
• SUMS Annual Conference 2020: Opportunities to Transform the Sector
• Postponed - Change Management Community of Practice Group
• Timetabling Community of Practice Group
• Marketing Directors' Community of Practice Group
• Change Management Community of Practice Group
• Academic Registrar Community of Practice Group
• Space Management Community Practice Group
• SUMS Annual Conference 2019: The Growth Paradox in Higher Education
• AUA - Managing Change in Higher Education Open Forum
• Change Management Community of Practice Group
• Academic Registrar Community of Practice Group
• Marketing Directors' Community of Practice Group
• Change Management Community of Practice Group
• Capacity Planning: Matching Resources to Teaching Requirements
• Change Management Community of Practice Group
• SUMS Annual Conference 2018: Global Perspectives on Achieving Growth

Consultants

• Sarah Browning
• Margaret Park
• Glen Noble
• Neil Smith
• Jenny McNeilis
• Charlotte Livingston
• Steve Hope
• Laura Cream
• Gary Hughes
• Mark Edwards
• Ben Fisher
• Rob Parsley
• Jo England
• Jenise Chisholm
• Laura Hunt
• Katrina Bell
• Aya Ferguson
• Kelly Prince
• Jacob Crittenden
• Dewi Day
• Christine Fraser
• Christian Cull
• Kuldip Sandhu
• Dawn Coupe
• Nanna Blomquist
• Ann Cummings
• Reina Tan
• Christian Hesselhoj
• Jennifer Sloan
• Cara Attenborough
• Renée Lobban
• Izzy Mackenzie
• Angela Kennedy
• Ryan Stanbrook
• Brock Johnson
• Hannah Pudner
• Tim Kaner
• Susan Clarke
• Leon Smith
• Andrea Bolshaw
• Nina McDermott
• Clare Sion
• Jayne Billam
• Sylvie Perez Johns
• Philippa Hewett
• Catherine Lorigan
• Steph Morris
• Sarah Gibson
• Darren Edhouse
• Dr Louise Ellis-Jones FRSA
• Hannah Borkin
• Anne Johnson
• Neil Casey
• Prof Dr Petra Molthan-Hill
• Rob Cheeseman
• Peter Phelps
• Patrick Bailey
• Rosemary Horry
• Paul Roberts
• Mark Charlton
• Kirsti Norris
• John Thorne
• Harriet Waters
• Andy Nolan
• Dr Andrew Reeves
• Dawn Munro
• Alex Favier
• Emma Sawula
• Steve Barber
• Paul Boustead
• Helen Bolton
• Dr Rhiannon Birch
• Katherine Powlesland
• Lorren Harvey
• Ropinder Heer
• Moss Garde
• Jacqueline Cripps
• Jane Ball
• Kay Renfrew
• Sam Thorne
• Lucy Dixon
• Linda Thompson
• Professor Bernie Morley
• Penny Dale
• Dr Liang Yew-Booth
• Charlotte Daniel
• Paula Dalziel
• Emily Hughes
• Chris Berry
• Dr Thomas Owen-Smith
• Richard Dale
• Lucy Smith
• Ruth Buckingham
• Emma Ogden
• Aysha Hayward
• Amy Bray
• Colin Davies
• Adam Brown
• Gretel Stonebridge
• Jess Tuthill
• Lynn Robinson
• Keran Williams
• Steve Clark
• Sally Turnbull
• Debbie England
• Matthew McCallum
• Ellie Highwood
• Paul Sayles
• Nathalie Mortimer
• Tina Yu
• Will Naylor
• Nick Skelton
• Felicity Gasparro-Cooper
• Graeme Sloan
• Helen Noyes
• Helen Baird
• Joel Arber
• Judith Russell
• Dr Alison Oldam
• Alison Price
• Jayshree Vadgama
• Claire Tudor-Morgan
• Susannah Randall
• Sameer Lakhani
• Jon Darch
• Graham Hill
• Claire Nuttall
• Helen Carasso
• David Becker
• Dr Fola Ikpehai
• Claire Taylor MBE
• Bernarde Hyde

Insights

• Developing a programme for reducing scope 3 carbon emissions
• Spurring transformation and culture change for a sustainable university
• Transformational change through co-creation of a Target Operating Model
• Creating an Academic Development Framework
• Moving Away from Internal Recruitment Scrutiny Panels
• Apprenticeships Lifecycle
• Cutting Travel Carbon Emissions for a Sustainability-Focused University
• Designing the Right Target Operating Model for Your University
• Race and Ethnicity Strategy Review
• Re-Imagining Ways of Working
• Strategic Review of Mental Health Provision and Services
• Supporting University Consolidation Processes
• Adding Strategic Value Through Transformational Change to Procurement and Planning
• The Importance of Strategic Workforce Planning
• The Co-Evolution of Pedagogy and Learning Spaces for a Better Student Experience
• What to Expect in Employment Law in Higher Education for 2022
• Reviewing Student Administration
• Benchmarking: Professional Services Efficiencies
• Brand Evolution to Meet New Strategy
• Improving Mental Health Services for Students
• Business Continuity in a Changed World
• Change Starts Now: Making HEIs Racially Inclusive
• Handling Exceptional Circumstances
• Leading Effectively through Disruptive Change
• Working Well - During and After Covid-19
• Digital Education Options for 2020/21
• The Impact of Covid-19 on Student Services
• Silver Linings: How the Response to Covid-19 Will Change Higher Education Forever
• Professional Development Support
• Student Journey Mapping
• Creating a User-Centric Website
• Understanding Change
• Identifying Efficiency Opportunities
• Benchmarking and International Student Recruitment
• Redesigning the Curriculum
• Delivering External Relations for an Ambitious University
• Driving a Service Excellence Culture
• Working with Agility
• Planning for the Future in New Library Development
• Calculating the Cost of Payment Acceptance
• Building International Strengths
• Developing a Systematic Approach to Stakeholder Engagement

Event Categories

• Community of Practice Groups
• Conference
• Meeting
• Webinar

Team

• Consulting Team
• EAUC Sustainability Associates
• Support Staff