This session is part of the HESPA Showcasing Good Practice Week 2023. The aim of this week is to provide a space for our members to share with each other the work they have done which they feel has been a particular success, and to celebrate and promote the hard work of planners in the HE sector.
Speakers: Rachel Parkes, Head of Project and Programme Management, Strategic Change Department and Phil Hopwood, Director of Strategic Planning
Institution: University of Liverpool
In this session we will hear about the work being done at the University of Liverpool to develop an ambitious new strategic plan. This includes a high-level framework setting out their aspirations for the next 10 years and an associated plan to map out opportunities for growth. The project is focused on ensuring a robust strategy implementation phase to hopefully avoid a meaningless “glossy” that only appears in the VC corridor, and instead to produce a plan that scaffolds meaningful change.
The impetus for this work was the appointment of a new VC in January 2023 and the aim is to have a strategic framework ready for the new academic year. Despite the tight timescale, staff in the Strategic Change team and the Strategic Planning team have worked together on a short-term project based approach to hit their challenging deadline (hopefully! This is being written in June for a September deadline, but it is looking good so far…). A key aim was for the process to be truly collaborative and supportive of maintaining day to day operations alongside the project. We will hear how the team worked to get colleagues on board, address concerns and what lessons they have learnt along the way.
There will be an opportunity for a Q and A following their presentation.
Tagged : Events, Showcasing Good Practice, 2023
Type : Meeting
Please contact info@hespa.ac.uk for more information
