HE Festival of Data

A limited number of tickets are still available for the HE Festival of Data, hosted by the University of Huddersfield on 19 September 2019. The festival is an excellent chance to come and find out about what is happening across the sector in terms of good practice when working with large datasets, and communicating complex data to diverse audiences, a task we all have to regularly undertake.

The theme of this year’s festival is harnessing data, and we have engaged a range of speakers who will be presenting throughout the day on a variety of topics.

 

Itinerary of the day


9.30 Registration


Morning Presentations (10.00am-1.00pm)


Mario Ferelli

Mario is the former Director of Analytical Services at HEFCE and former Operational Research Consultant at the Office for Students (OfS). After working in Funding and Analytical Services at HEFCE for 28 years, Mario now is an independent consultant.


Andy Youell

Andy is the former Director of Data Policy and Governance at HESA, and former Director of the Higher Education Data & Information Improvement Programme (HEDIIP). He now provides consultancy advice to universities, governments and related organisations across the world.


Tea Break


David Kernohan

David Kernohan is an Associate Editor of Wonkhe. Until June 2016, he worked at Jisc as a programme manager and senior codesign manager, after being seconded from HEFCE in 2006. David’s areas of expertise include teaching quality enhancement policy, funding policy, sector agency politics and history, research policy, and the use of technology and data in Higher Education.


Alison Jones

Alison has over twenty years’ experience of working in Higher Education, including working as Director of Planning and Governance at the University of Bradford and Head of Strategic Planning at Leeds Metropolitan University. Alison is currently Director of Planning at Oxford Brookes University and Chair of HESPA.


Jackie Njoroge

Jackie is Deputy Chair of HESPA, and has been Director of Strategy at University of Salford since 2016. Prior to this, she led the Strategic Planning and Management Information team within Manchester Metropolitan University, with a mandate to help change the strategic planning direction of the University.


Afternoon Workshops (2.00-4.00pm)

  • Jisc: Analytics Labs, Interactive Insights and Learning Analytics
  • Texuna: Integrating BI tools with NSS data
  • Liz Bennett (University of Huddersfield): Students’ Learning Responses to Dashboard data


Afternoon Poster Presentations (2.00-4.00pm)

  • University of Cambridge – Tableau for presenting research activity, finance data and KPIs
  • University of Manchester – Power BI for monitoring progress against the targets set in APP
  • University of Brighton – Dashboard for Athena SWAN applications
    Kings College London – Data Communication using Microsoft Azure and Power BI
  • Oxford Brookes University – Learning Analytics in Partnership with Texuna
  • University of Birmingham – Tableau for access and participation data
    Staffordshire University – Power BI and Microsoft Power Apps for personal tutor dashboards
  • Advance HE – Reporting to institutions of PRES, PTES and UKES

 

The event ends at 4.00pm.

 

Delegates will be able to book onto the afternoon workshops in advance (limited number of places available). Details of how to book onto these workshops, as well as registration details and how to find us will be circulated on an email the week before the event.

Tickets are usually priced at £120 each, however we are offering two complimentary tickets to every University of Huddersfield school/service. Please get in touch with the Planning Team directly for more information.