This session is part of the HESPA Showcasing Good Practice Week 2023. The aim of this week is to provide a space for our members to share with each other the work they have done which they feel has been a particular success, and to celebrate and promote the hard work of planners in the HE sector.
Speaker: Dr Brooke Storer-Church, Director of Strategic Academic Engagement
Institution: Birmingham City University
In this session, we hear from Dr Brooke Storer-Church about her new role as Director of Strategic Academic Engagement, including how this new position came to be, why it was needed at Birmingham City University and what Brooke (formerly Head of Skills at OfS) has been up to so far.
Working broadly to shape and deliver an refreshed academic strategy, Brooke has been charged with improving internal awareness of the context in which BCU are operating and encouraging colleagues to think more strategically when taking decisions about provisions, partnerships, student support, etc. In her first year, she’s led BCU’s new APP development, implemented a new 5-year planning process with faculties, and kicked off a review of home partnerships while working to expand her network in this new post.
There will be ample opportunity to ask questions so please feel free to pick Brooke’s brains on her experience in the role so far!
Tagged : Events, Showcasing Good Practice, 2023
Type : Meeting
Dr. Brooke Storer-Church joined BCU in Sept 2022 as the Director of Strategic Academic Engagement, advising and working with the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) on academic strategy broadly. Currently, she is leading the development of BCU’s ‘Wave 1’ Access and Participation Plan and overseeing the implementation of a new 5-year planning process for faculties and professional service departments. Prior to joining BCU in Sept 2022, Dr. Storer-Church was the Head of Skills at the Office for Students, with responsibility for developing and managing strategic activities across a wide range of policy areas including technical education, digital skills, healthcare education, graduate outcomes, knowledge exchange and regulation. Her work there included developing impact measures for student involvement in knowledge exchange activities, overseeing multiple large-scale funding programmes including those to improve outcomes for local graduates and to increase degree apprenticeship providers in England, developing transformational change programmes to increase the number of AI specialists in the labour market, and working with the Department for Health and Social Care on establishing the emergency register to enable final year nursing and medical students to enter NHS service in the first phase of the pandemic. Brooke holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bristol and resides in Bristol with her husband, 2 children and dog.
Please contact info@hespa.ac.uk for more information
