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Consultancy and enhancement services

We help higher education organisations be the best they can be by unlocking the potential of their people.

Creating world-class providers

Advance HE is a unique agency helping higher education be the best it can be. We are member-led, not-for-profit and globally connected, with members in 27 countries. Our renowned experts focus on the areas of leadership and governance, teaching and learning, research, and equality, diversity and inclusion, looking across and beyond the HE sector to share practice and insight. We work closely with our members and clients to understand the challenges faced and the opportunities presented to improve and enhance how things are done.

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Supporting institutions to achieve their strategic goals

Our work can help you:

  • Keep pace with—and think beyond— changing financial and regulatory contexts through effective strategy and approaches to access, teaching, research, student experience, leadership and governance
  • Compete for and retain both students and staff by sustaining an inclusive culture, delivering support and enabling belonging in order to be ‘first choice’ as a provider or employer, especially during a cost-of-living crisis
  • Focus on sustainability from environmental, economic and social perspectives delivering a more joined-up and holistic approach from lecture hall to boardroom, and more effective ways to demonstrate value and impact to wider stakeholders.
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Strategy and Change

We support institutions, faculties and schools to develop sustainable transformation strategies which impact strategic goals positively.
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Teaching and Learning

We develop systems, curricula and practitioners to deliver teaching excellence for student success.
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We support institutions to tackle inequalities and develop systems that promote equity and success for all.
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Leadership and Management

We equip current and future leaders to lead with confidence, agility, innovation and inclusivity.
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Governance

We support boards and governors to be effective and tackle the challenges faced in a highly turbulent sector.
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Research Culture

We develop institutional and individual behaviours, values, expectations and attitudes that support research success.
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Our Team

Working with us means drawing on the expertise of highly experienced colleagues who are active leaders in their fields with significant track records in supporting institutions to deliver their objectives.

Victoria Holbrook

Assistant Director, Consulting, Governance and Insights
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Advance HE
Victoria Holbrook
As Assistant Director, Consulting, Governance and Insight, Victoria leads the development of Advance HE’s consultancy and insight to meet the strategic change needs of members and clients in their rapidly evolving operating environments, including our sector-leading work supporting governance effectiveness, and student surveys.

Charles Knight

Assistant Director, Knowledge & Innovation
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Advance HE
Charles Knight
Charles is an academic leader with a proven track record of delivery in the areas of learning teaching and enterprise. Before joining Advance HE, he was Associate Dean (Student Experience) at Salford Business School where he worked with colleagues to introduce a series of innovative practices including short technical qualifications, block teaching and an increased emphasis on the use of simulations and experimental learning.

Dr Colette Fletcher

Head of Governance & Consulting
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Advance HE
Dr Colette Fletcher
Colette joined Advance HE in May 2023. As the Head of Governance & Consulting, she is now responsible for leading Advance HE’s existing governance advisory portfolio and developing the wider consultancy business. She is passionate about advising and supporting senior leaders in UK HE on governance and other critical issues and supporting the boards of higher education providers to be as effective as possible.

Amanda Aldercotte

Head of Knowledge and Research
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Advance HE
Amanda Aldercotte
Amanda has led Advance HE’s research team since November 2017 and over the course of the last three years has helped establish the team’s unique position as qualified researchers working within the realms of higher education and equality, diversity and inclusion.

Jonathan Neves

Head of Business Intelligence & Surveys
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Advance HE
Jonathan-Neves
Jonathan joined Advance HE in 2015, bringing with him 16 years’ experience in customer insight and market research. Jonathan graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in Geography, and is a full member of the Market Research Society. Heading up the insights and student surveys portfolio at Advance HE, Jonathan is co-author of the Advance HE-HEPI Student Academic Experience Survey report, and is responsible for the overall strategy for the UK Engagement Survey as well as the Postgraduate Taught and Research Experience Surveys (PTES and PRES). Jonathan has also worked across the sector collaborating on the use of the UK Engagement Survey within Learning Gain pilots.

Dr Kay Hack (PFHEA)

Lead Consultant (Education)
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Advance HE
Dr Kay Hack
Kay leads a team of senior consultants to deliver a range of services to the HE sector to support strategic leadership and change in HEIs.

Fiona Lennoxsmith

Lead Consultant, Leadership, Organisational Development and Research
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Advance HE
Fiona Lennoxsmith
Fiona Lennoxsmith is Lead Consultant, Leadership, Organisational Development and Research at Advance HE, where she leads a team of senior consultants to design and facilitate innovative leadership interventions, programmes and thought leadership for the Higher Education sector.

Clare Pavitt

Lead Consultant, EDI
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Advance HE
Clare Pavitt
With a career spanning central and local government, the voluntary sector, broadcasting, the police service and higher education, Clare has more than 30 years’ experience supporting organisations on their equality, diversity and inclusion journeys.

Dr Lindy-Ann Blaize Alfred

Lead Consultant, EDI
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Advance HE
Dr Lindy-Ann Blaize Alfred
Dr Lindy-Ann Blaize Alfred is a Lead Consultant, EDI at Advance HE. A Senior Fellow, Lindy-Ann brings over three decades of experience in a range of education sectors both nationally and internationally.

A vast pool of experienced associates

Advance HE works with a vast pool of experienced high-level associates across all areas of our work. Many hold or have held significant posts in the sector and understand the context of the regulatory landscape and current best practice. We ensure that our associate pool is diverse, including people with lived-experience and who have sensitivity to a range of issues.

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Project Success Stories

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