The most recent release of the HESA Staff record open data concerns the 2022-23 academic year.
It was a year that started with the brief and fiscally calamitous Liz Truss administration, and ended with rapidly climbing inflation – so the attention of universities was very much centred on rising costs, and the affordability of every aspect of provision.
Widespread (though not national) industrial action on pay, pensions, and conditions will also have played a part in staffing changes during this period.
In the majority of these charts we examine academic staff numbers only – HESA Staff data is optionally submitted by providers in England and Northern Ireland, and is therefore less usable for analysis.
