Facilitated by Jisc
The group focuses on ensuring the licensing of enterprise and education solutions will meet the strategic and institutional priorities of UK further education and skills, higher education and research, both now and in the future.
This includes:
- Consideration of digital transformation of education, research and digital estates, collective and shared licensing and procurement models
- Standards and interoperability for digital, data and technology
- Business risk
- The efficiency agenda
Members play an essential role in ensuring negotiation, procurement and communication strategies reflect the diversity of the sector, the marketplaces they are operating in and that the value of collective negotiation is achieved across enterprise and education‑focused solutions.
The group will facilitate debate and action within the sector and the vendor marketplace to help implement solutions to challenges in licensing enterprise and education solutions, fostering digital transformation of education and research. This includes providing and soliciting evidence and expertise to inform policy development.
Members
Membership of the group reflects diversity within the sector and recognises the importance of involving senior leaders from UK institutions to achieve affordable, sustainable, and innovative agreements.
- Professor John Latham, vice-chancellor, Coventry University (chair)
- Tyrrell Basson, chief information officer, University of York
- Steve Bowden, director of learning and information services, University of Chester
- Mark Bramwell, chief digital and information officer, Said Business School, University of Oxford
- David Conway, director of technical services, University of Sunderland
- Nathalie Czechowski, chief information officer, University of South Wales
- Sarah Davies, director of education innovation Bristol Institute for learning and teaching, University of Bristol
- Jon Dunster, director of IT services, Chichester College group
- Mark Emerson, Colchester Institute
- Libby Homer, chief student experience officer, Buckinghamshire New University
- Janet Lord, faculty director of education, deputy pro-vice-chancellor for the faculty of health and education, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Gavin McLachan, vice principle and chief information officer, and librarian to the university, University of Edinburgh
- Dr Jim Nottingham, director of digital and IT services, University of the Creative Arts
- Greg Stonehouse, chief technology officer, Bishop Grosseteste University
- Alice Whilby, pro vice-chancellor (education and student experience), University of Northampton
- Emma Woodcock, chief information officer, York St John University
Professional bodies
- Miriam Deakin, director of strategy, insight and member engagement, UUK
- Deborah Green, chief executive, UCISA
Invited representatives
- Michael McLaughlin, head of category - Information services, APUC (procurement bodies)
Membership information
The combined membership of the group will be representative of all UK universities and the diversity of size, income, approaches, ambitions, strategies, students, researchers and staff etc contained within those institutions. The membership should have wide geographical coverage.
There will be continued engagement and consultation with AOC, SFC and CETR to ensure that the interests of FE institutions are represented in relation to the group’s area of work. This will be additional to having FE representative members on the group.
Memberships of other Jisc groups will be taken into account when selecting institutions to reasonably avoid duplication of individuals and institutions. Exceptions to this approach include where chairs of the expert level groups should sit on the linked strategy group and members providing a link between expert level groups.
There will be up to 19 representative members as follows:
- Chair – VC
- Up to 10 members from UK higher education institutions in enterprise related roles (CIO and similar)
- Up to 5 members from UK higher education institutions in education related roles (PVC, director of education and similar)
- Up to three members from UK further education institutions (director of IT services, digital transformation and similar roles)
There will be members from professional bodies as follows:
- UCISA – CEO (or delegate)
The combined membership of the group will be representative of all UK universities and the diversity of size, income, approaches, ambitions, strategies, students, researchers and staff etc contained within those institutions. The membership should have wide geographical coverage.
There will be continued engagement and consultation with AOC, SFC and CETR to ensure that the interests of FE institutions are represented in relation to the group’s area of work. This will be additional to having FE representative members on the group.
Memberships of other Jisc groups will be taken into account when selecting institutions to reasonably avoid duplication of individuals and institutions. Exceptions to this approach include where chairs of the expert level groups should sit on the linked strategy group and members providing a link between expert level groups.
There will be up to 19 representative members as follows:
- Chair – VC
- Up to 10 members from UK higher education institutions in enterprise related roles (CIO and similar)
- Up to 5 members from UK higher education institutions in education related roles (PVC, director of education and similar)
- Up to three members from UK further education institutions (director of IT services, digital transformation and similar roles)
There will be members from professional bodies as follows:
- UCISA – CEO (or delegate)