Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Provost at The University of Buckingham, and founder of the Spinnaker Group reflects on 'the work the group has done and its impact to date'.
Back in 2017, I founded the Spinnaker Group to share good practice among colleagues with strategic responsibility for teaching, learning and student experience in institutions across the sector.
At that time there was nothing else that enabled dissemination of institutional research and to build understanding on important L&T and student experience issues that was not mission-group specific, so a forum bringing UK-based colleagues together to discuss ideas and outlook specifically on the student journey was much needed.
The group has generally operated under the radar, in the sense that we meet around twice a year, at a volunteer member’s institution, or virtually, together with a simple web page, but nothing more overt than that.
