Facilitated by Jisc
The group focuses on ensuring the licensing of enterprise solutions will meet the strategic and institutional priorities of UK FES, HE 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 the value of collective negotiation is achieved.
The group will facilitate debate and action within the sector and the vendor marketplace to help implement solutions to challenges in licensing enterprise 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
- David Conway, director of technical services, University of Sunderland
- Nathalie Czechowski, chief information officer, University of South Wales
- Oliver Davy, chief digital officer, University of Derby
- Jon Dunster, director of IT services, Chichester College group
- Mark Emerson, Colchester Institute
- 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
- Emma Woodcock, chief information officer, York St John University
Professional bodies
- Deborah Green, chief executive, UCISA
- Dan Hurley, deputy director, policy, UUK
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 14 representative members as follows:
- Chair – VC
- Up to 10 members from UK higher education institutions (CIO and similar roles)
- 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 14 representative members as follows:
- Chair – VC
- Up to 10 members from UK higher education institutions (CIO and similar roles)
- 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)