Author
Claire Taylor
Principal Consultant
Claire Taylor is Principal Consultant at SUMS consulting. She helps universities identify effective and efficient solutions to complex organisational issues using a range of informed approaches.
With expertise in stakeholder engagement, participative process review, quantitative and qualitative benchmarking and activity analysis, Claire translates multifaceted problems into achievable work plans. She has worked in the HE sector for 12 years and has experience across the breadth of professional and administrative activity within UK universities. You can find Claire’s full bio here.
11 pieces
Newest first, since May 2018
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University leaders can be more adventurous in championing each other’s institutions
Plymouth Marjon vice chancellor Claire Taylor ponders what it would take for different universities to overcome their competitive interests to usher in a new era of mutual advocacy
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Public services are in crisis, and universities are part of the solution
Claire Taylor makes the case for a corporate social responsibility levy to fix the country’s ailing public sector
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Online learning is not the enemy
Claire Taylor and Stefanie Hartley argue that it’s not online learning that is the enemy, but a narrow view of learner diversity and learning needs.
With Stefanie Hartley
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Ask not what you might do, but why you’re doing it
Building back higher demands tough questions of the university sector, especially its leaders. Claire Taylor explores how asking Why? can help move from the operational to the inspirational.
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Just another brick in a wall
Claire Taylor and Andrea Buttle discuss how risk mitigation will impact the timetable and, ultimately, the student experience.
With Andrea Buttle
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Re-imagining decision making, after Covid-19
For Claire Taylor, we need new ways of working and new ways of making decisions to address the aftermath of Covid-19
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2020: a space (and timetabling) odyssey
A return to a socially distanced campus presents unique challenges to timetablers and estates teams. Claire Taylor and Andrea Buttle set out current thinking.
With Andrea Buttle
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Wicked problems: what’s the future of assessment?
Over-emphasis on assessment could limit students’ experience and create the conditions for essay mills to flourish. Claire Taylor and Douglas Blackstock approach the problem from different directions.
With Douglas Blackstock
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Hard-working… or working too hard?
Long working hours are endemic in academic culture, and Claire Taylor thinks that those at the top should be setting an example.
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University and Students’ Union strategies: can two hearts beat as one?
Strategic planning in universities and students’ unions usually takes place independently, but Claire Taylor, James Dawson and Sarah Ellis think more can be done to bring the processes closer together
With James Dawson and Sarah Ellis
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The possibilities and pitfalls of using TEF as an enhancement tool
Claire Taylor of Wrexham Glyndŵr University looks at TEF from a quality enhancement perspective, and considers her institutional options.