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• Category: Briefing Papers
  • What to Expect in Employment Law in Higher Education for 2022
• Category: Uncategorised
  • Registration of Interest for Upcoming Roundtable Events
  • Creating Sustainable Universities by Taking a Whole Systems Approach
  • 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
  • Harnessing the Revolution: How Service Design Can Transform Higher Education
  • Organisational Culture and Change in Higher Education
  • Insight from SUMS: Curriculum Management Systems
  • Women in Higher Education Leadership: Reflections from International Women’s Day 2022
  • Hear from Leaders in Higher Education on International Women’s Day
  • SUMS Consulting Appointed to Evaluate the Impact of OfS’ Statement of Expectations
  • A How-To Guide for Effective Workforce Planning in the Higher Education Sector
  • Aligning Learning and Teaching Space for a Better University Experience
  • Race, Ethnicity and Sustainable Change in Higher Education: A Personal and Professional Perspective
  • The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Tomorrow in Higher Education
  • Job Opportunity – SUMS Group Data Analyst
  • Creating the Right Digital Learning Strategy in Higher Education
  • The SUMS Group Partners with EAUC to Deliver In-Depth Expertise in Sustainability to the Education Sector
  • Resource Allocation Models: The Linchpin of a Successful University
  • The Spirit is Willing… The Road to Diversity in University Marketing Teams and the Toolkit to Get There
  • Your University Transformation Portfolio: Align, Prioritise, Focus
  • Win-Win-Win: Why Your Team Should Consider Hosting an Intern
  • Delivering Effective Change as a Programme or Project Sponsor in Higher Education
  • Post-Covid Workplace Culture – Top Ten Tips for Defining Your ‘New Normal’ Ways of Working
  • SUMS Summer Showcase
  • 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
  • A Look in the Rear View Mirror: Top 5 Insights from SUMS Consulting
  • How to Lead Effectively through Disruptive Change
  • Getting Where You Need to Be: Target Operating Models for Universities
  • Understanding the Apprentice Lifecycle in Universities
  • Change Starts Now: Making HEIs Racially Inclusive
  • Business Continuity in a Changed World
  • You Say You Want a Revolution: Reflections from University Marketeers
  • Crystal Ball Gazing: What is the Future for Handling Exceptional Circumstances?
  • Opportunities to Provide Authentic, Inclusive and Engaging Digital Assessment
  • Thoughtful Change Leadership: When Communication is Not Enough
  • Working Well – During and Beyond Covid-19
  • 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.
  • Student recruitment and conversion in a post-pandemic world: reimagining the prospective student journey
  • Silver Linings: How the Response to Covid-19 Will Change Higher Education Forever
  • 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
  • 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
  • Talking Heads – Coaching for Academics and the Professional Services through SUMS
  • 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
  • Enhancing Your Workforce Capability During Covid-19
  • SUMS Builds Team to Support UK Universities
  • Silver Linings Playbook – Opportunities to Transform the Sector During Covid-19
  • Ensuring Content is Accessible to Students during COVID-19
  • COVID-19 and Distance Learning
  • A Message from our CEO, Bernarde Hyde
  • COVID-19 Update for SUMS Members and Clients
  • The Future is Inter-disciplinary: Thoughts from the HESPA Conference 2020
  • Value for Money for Students: Understanding a Student’s Motivations in the Extinction Rebellion Era
  • Expecting the Unexpected: A Lesson from the Coronavirus Outbreak
  • Coaching: Enhancing Your Workforce Capability
  • 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
  • SUMS Annual Conference 2019 – The Growth Paradox in Higher Education
  • The Digital University Part 1: Saving Space with New Ways of Working
  • Tackling the Growth Paradox in Universities: How Marketing Holds the Key
  • Beyond the Transformation Programme
  • The Campus for the Future: A Student’s Favourite Study Place?
  • Tackling the Tough Issues: Widening Participation, the Student Voice and Student Service Provision
  • Helping University Procurement Departments Prepare for Brexit
  • Ensuring Universities are Fit for the Future with SUMS
  • The Campus of the Future: An Interplay Between Virtual and Physical Environments
  • Brief Insights from the AUA Managing Change in HE Open Forum: Approaching Change in a Changing Sector
  • Understanding Augar
  • What is a Benefit?
  • Financial Efficiencies – Is your University Fit for the Future?
  • What is a ‘Digital Culture’, Really?
  • Horizon Scanning: Complete the Sector Survey on Your Institution’s Approach
  • Horizon Scanning – SUMS Collaborative Study
  • Purchasing Card Use in Universities
  • A How-To Guide for Universities: Responding to the OfS Call for Effective Access and Participation Plans
  • Tackling Sexual Violence, Harassment and Mental Health in Higher Education.
  • Preventing the failure of Change Programmes
  • Be All You Can Be with SUMS Professional Development Support
  • We’ve always done it this way!
  • eExams: Evolution or Revolution?
  • No Room for Complacency in the University Sector
  • Are 2-Year Accelerated Degrees Viable?

Services

• 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

• SAVE THE DATE - SUMS Annual Conference 2022: The Sustainable University
• 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

• Penny Dale
• Liang Yew-Booth
• Charlotte Armstrong
• Paula Dalziel
• Emily Hughes
• Tom Baines
• Alan Roffey
• Chris Berry
• Tom Owen-Smith
• Richard Dale
• Lucy Smith
• Ruth Buckingham
• Emma Ogden
• Rachel Kelly
• Lindsey Lockey
• Aysha Hayward
• Amy Bray
• Colin Davies
• Adam Brown
• Gretel Stonebridge
• Aya Ferguson
• Jess Tuthill
• Neelam Khosla-Stevens
• Martin Hamilton
• Lynn Robinson
• Keran Williams
• Liz Walkley
• Professor Mike Thomas
• Henry Gun-Why
• Steve Clark
• Helen Masson-Jones
• Sally Turnbull
• Peter Tinson
• Debbie England
• James Bance
• Matthew McCallum
• Ellie Highwood
• Paul Sayles
• Jeannette Strachan
• Nathalie Mortimer
• Tina Yu
• Will Naylor
• Wendy Allerton
• Nick Skelton
• Felicity Gasparro-Cooper
• Graeme Sloan
• Elaine Warrener
• Helen Noyes
• Helen Baird
• Michael Pearson
• Joel Arber
• Iain Littlejohn
• Linda Crotty
• Judith Russell
• Alison Percy
• Dr Alison Oldam
• Alison Price
• Marion Hutchins
• Grace Parsons
• Jayshree Vadgama
• Claire Tudor-Morgan
• Susannah Randall
• Sameer Lakhani
• Jon Darch
• Graham Hill
• Claire Nuttall
• Helen Carasso
• David Becker
• Andrea Buttle
• Fola Ikpehai
• Claire Taylor MBE
• Bernarde Hyde

Insights

• 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

Team

• Consulting Team
• Support Staff