Member projects will run throughout the membership year. Projects are listed below; for projects that are not yet live, you can register your interest to receive updates when they launch.
The annual projects are designed to be relevant to all members, no matter where they are located or what kind of institution they represent.
Explore the projects, and the resources, created in other membership years.
Membership Benefits 2023-24
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Advance HE organised inspiring talks that have given me new ways of thinking. Its panelists have made me question my beliefs and I feel that I have a much richer and deeper understanding of the topics that were presented within higher education. Highly recommended!"Feedback from an event attendee in 2023
Member Projects
Fit for the Future: Adapting practice for the new paradigms of higher education
The HE landscape is shifting and diversifying to meet the changing needs of students and employers. Post-pandemic changes to student expectations, experiences, and prior learning combined with external factors necessitate changes to how higher education is structured and provided.
Providing diverse HE models can help ensure that personalised, quality learning opportunities are accessible to all. This member benefit will be exploring how we can adapt key areas of our education practice to these new modes of higher education.
Providing diverse HE models can help ensure that personalised, quality learning opportunities are accessible to all. This member benefit will be exploring how we can adapt key areas of our education practice to these new modes of higher education.
Generative AI: Beyond Assessment
Large Language Models and other forms of AI are influencing ways of working and will revolutionise how we approach research, collaboration, teaching and learning. There is a recognised need for a considered, less polarised exploration of the issues and opportunities AI presents for regulators, institutions, staff and students alike.
This member benefit takes us beyond current debates on AI and assessment to consider in-depth other ways the technology will impact higher education and the communities we serve.
This member benefit takes us beyond current debates on AI and assessment to consider in-depth other ways the technology will impact higher education and the communities we serve.
Creating a culture for Strategic EDI Change
Leading and achieving meaningful transformation and lasting change in inclusivity requires a multifaceted approach involving a deep understanding of the organisation’s culture, its values, and its stakeholders.
Developing institutional confidence and cultural competence to achieve success is a significant undertaking and requires a shared commitment and leadership from across communities.
This member benefit looks at creating and implementing a clear vision and mission for real change.
Developing institutional confidence and cultural competence to achieve success is a significant undertaking and requires a shared commitment and leadership from across communities.
This member benefit looks at creating and implementing a clear vision and mission for real change.
Growing the HE workforce of the future
Looking to the future of the higher education sector, it is vital to consider the workforce that will drive its success.
This requires a strategic approach to ensure institutions can identify, recruit, develop and retain the necessary talent in their academic, professional and ‘third space’ communities.
This project provides insight into emerging trends, understanding potential new roles, the people development required, and the impact on promotion and recognition structures.
This requires a strategic approach to ensure institutions can identify, recruit, develop and retain the necessary talent in their academic, professional and ‘third space’ communities.
This project provides insight into emerging trends, understanding potential new roles, the people development required, and the impact on promotion and recognition structures.
Other projects
Not all of our member projects run on an annual basis. As we are reactive to our member's needs, member projects might start during a year or run across multiple years.
Freedom of Speech Governance Event
This interactive online event, delivered in association with CUC, AHUA and UUK for colleagues to understand the latest updates to Freedom of Speech regulation and identify and manage related risks strategically.
HE Governance and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
An interactive event to explore how AI impacts higher education by sharing insights and questions with others involved in governance.
Academic Assurance
This is the collaborative project between Advance HE, UUK, CUC and GuildHE which aims to convene the sector to understand shared challenges and approaches to academic assurance.
Assessment and Feedback Superchargers
Access the resources to run your own Assessment and Feedback Superchargers workshop. The workshop is designed for disciplinary programme teams who are seeking to redesign assessment and feedback to promote student learning, engagement, and satisfaction.
Developing Leadership that Sustains, Aligns and Engages
The Advance HE 2023 leadership survey report highlighted some clear synergies, and some startling divergences between the perspectives of ‘me as a leader’ and ‘my experience of being led’. This event seeks to explore the divergences and consider how opportunities to maximise engagement and alignment.
Measuring Educational Gain
These interactive sessions will focus on understanding the concept of education gains, it's role in TEF and consider the challenges around implementation and evaluation. This will be an opportunity for small and specialist provision, college-based higher education and traditional University Institution to work collaboratively to explore this further.
Measuring What Matters
This project explores how higher education governing bodies are currently measuring and articulating performance in order to better evidence the value that they create for all stakeholders.
Identifying, developing and supporting Academic Leadership: An Evidence Informed Review Of Good Practice
Led by Geraldine Harrison, Advance HE Associate in collaboration with Universities HR, this review explores how HEIs can support Academic Leadership.
Student Needs Framework
The Student Needs Framework provides a foundation for considering the re-design of student support services across higher education providers. The project also includes case studies to illustrate how the Framework is being used in practice.
If you cannot see the form below in your browser you can also access the form here to register your interest in the Member Projects for 2023-24.