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  • Leading with Impact – how universities can maximise their impact on place

    10 May 2023 by Richard Calvert

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Richard Calvert, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University. In this article, he explores the challenge of understanding how we make a difference to the towns and cities where we’re located and argues for a sharper and more strategic approach to measuring and maximising…

  • How are HE leaders responding to generative AI?

    9 May 2023 by Mary Curnock Cook CBE and Nic Newman

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mary Curnock Cook CBE, chair of the Jisc-Emerge HE Edtech Board, and Nic Newman, Founder and partner at Emerge Education. Given some of the recent media coverage of the rise of generative AI and its potential impact on universities, especially around assessment and…

  • Great Expectations: Myth and the Student Experience

    5 May 2023 by Jon Down, Ellie Garraway

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Jon Down, Director of Development and Ellie Garraway, CEO, of Grit Breakthrough Programmes. Grit delivers intensive personal development and coaching programmes in universities across the UK. In his recent HEPI blog, Leo Hanna outlined the dangers of students’ expectations not matching up to…

  • The Necessary Imagination: a new educational dialectic

    3 May 2023 by Professor Andy Salmon

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Andy Salmon – Pro-Vice Chancellor External, Bath Spa University ‘The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.’ Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination This short article is designed to provoke thought. Using the century…

  • Assessing individual research performance

    2 May 2023 by Roger Watson, Dean Korošak, Gregor Štiglic,

    This HEPI guest blog was kindly written by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China, Dean Korošak, Vice-Rector for Science and Research, University of Maribor, Slovenia and Gregor Štiglic, Vice-Dean for Research, Associate Professor and Head of Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor,…

  • Building collaborative leadership across the centre-local divide

    26 April 2023 by Professor Helen Laville

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Helen Laville, Provost at Kingston University, and is part of a series of HEPI / NCEE blogs on entrepreneurial leadership. In my last role as a PVC Education, I instituted a series of meetings with the departments across the university. In the…

  • The UK Student Housing Shortage – A push to partner 

    24 April 2023 by Sam Bailey-Watts

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Sam Bailey-Watts of FRAH Consulting  An overview  The UK media outlets filled many column inches through September and early October 2022 as the scale of the student housing shortage, in some cities and towns in the UK, became apparent.   It had been widely…