Data consultancy
Tailored, expert consultancy to enhance your data capabilities and support you at every step of your data journey.
Harness the potential of your data
Data can be one of your organisation’s most powerful assets, supporting key priorities such as strategy and planning, student engagement and wellbeing and operational efficiency. However, achieving this potential comes with considerable challenges.
As the digital and data body for education and research, we are dedicated to advancing the sector’s data capabilities as well as driving sector insights.
Building on our data maturity framework, and HESA data and learning analytics expertise, our data consultancy offers targeted support for organisations at all stages of the data capability journey.
Tailored data expertise
Our consultancy provides access to a dedicated team of data experts who can provide expertise and additional resource when and where you need it most.
They can help with student engagement analytics, tackle specific data issues or take a broader view of your data needs to help you achieve your strategic objectives.
Project examples
- Data maturity assessment and strategy: establish your baseline data maturity, identify areas for improvement and define your data or reporting strategy and roadmap.
- Learning analytics readiness: guidance on strategy, policy, process, communications, data protection and technical readiness to support the implementation of learning analytics or attendance monitoring.
- Learning analytics evaluation and transition: review your existing learning analytics or attendance monitoring processes, provide recommendations and support technical and change processes for the transition to a new solution.
- Analysis and visualisation of higher education data: services include analysis and research using a range of higher education data, complex data linking and tracking, tailored labour market intelligence reports and data visualisation and reporting support.
- Data exploration workshops: guidance in analysing your HESA data or exploring problem spaces with data.
- Develop student, staff and stakeholder insight: expert support with our online surveys, including survey officer training, questionnaire design, benchmarking and survey response analysis.
Benefits of the service
- Extending your team’s capabilities: Our consultancy acts as an extension of your in-house teams, bridging gaps, offering specialist insights, actionable strategies and a fresh perspective when and where you need it
- Develop data capability: Improve your organisation’s data maturity, no matter where you are on your journey
- Maximise value from data: Receive specialist support to turn higher education and labour market data into actionable insights
- Tailored solutions: Benefit from customised support to address the unique needs and challenges of your organisation
- Implement learning analytics with confidence: Assess your organisation’s readiness, navigate complexities and address concerns
- Tap into expert insights: Leverage our HESA data expertise and access to the most up-to-date industry intelligence
Eligibility
This service is for higher education providers, colleges and organisations working with or researching higher education.
How does data consultancy work?
From the moment you reach out to us for your data consultancy needs, we’re on hand. Here’s what you can expect from us:
- Reach out to us and we’ll direct your enquiry to the relevant consultancy team.
- One of our consultants will discuss your requirements, purpose, and goals.
- We’ll provide a proposal to deliver your solution and set some milestones.
- Once you’re happy, we’ll sign a contract together and begin the consultancy project.
- You’ll meet with your consultant(s) regularly, either online or in person, including regular reviews and feedback to ensure the project direction aligns with your requirements.
Following the consulting period, we’ll arrange follow-up check-ins to see how you’re getting on.
Contact us for tailored support
To discuss how our consultancy can support your data capability, contact your relationship manager.
ISO certification
This service is included within the scope of our ISO9001 certificate.
