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New intake of participants welcomed into Analytics Labs

After a very successful recruitment drive for new Analytics Labs participants we have been delighted this week to host the start-up event for the January 2020 intake at our Churchgate House offices in Manchester. We have 28 participants from across the UK higher education sector who will be working in three teams – two looking […]

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New Analytics Labs team opportunities for January 2020 start

Are you interested in International Competitiveness or Widening Participation? Would you like to get ‘hands-on’ with data and explore the possibilities within an experimental environment whilst widening your network of contacts within the sector? If so, Analytics Labs may well provide the professional development opportunity you’re looking for. What is Analytics Labs? Analytics Labs is […]

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An update on Analytics Labs, its benefits and how to get involved

There have been some recent exciting developments around Data and Analytics at Jisc including the integration of HESA’s data and analytics team into Jisc – further information here – Combined data analytics expertise to benefit higher education sector – 17 September 2019. In light of these developments and the opening up of new opportunities for […]

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Research Success Spinout Analytics Lab team – starts 6 June – applications now open!

New opportunity – please note that the deadline is looming. Do you work in UK Higher Education? Are you interested in Research? Spinouts? Data visualisation? Would you like to get ‘hands-on’ with data and explore the possibilities within an experimental environment whilst widening your network of contacts within the sector? If so, Analytics Labs may […]

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A welcome return to Manchester for another inspiring Analytics Labs Showcase event

This week we hosted another of our regular Analytics Labs Showcase and Start-up events in Manchester. The event was attended by over 90 people including Labs participants and invited guests. Our audience included colleagues from the Department for Education and Universities UK. Once again, the demonstration by outgoing Labs participants of proof of concept Analytics […]

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News on outgoing, incoming and upcoming Analytics Labs activity

This is something of a bumper post on recent developments in Analytics Labs. We have news on: Analytics Labs activity – outgoing and incoming teams and upcoming recruitment activity. An opportunity for previous Labs participants to join our new Alumni group. Outgoing Analytics Labs teams We had a very successful Showcase event in Manchester in […]

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A re-cap on Analytics Labs, its benefits and how to get involved

How would your university benefit if you were able to: Improve staff skills in the area of data and analytics Access a wide range of quality controlled national data presented for higher educational purposes Gain experience in using relevant cutting-edge software tools and techniques Extend your professional networks through collaborative working with peers from around […]

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Have you participated in Analytics Labs or one if its previous incarnations? Like to stay in touch? Join our new Alumni group

We have been running Analytics Labs (previously known as Heidi Labs) since late 2015 and since that time we have had 290 participants join us from 109 UK Higher Education Providers (including 11 Alternative HE Providers). Previous participants have contributed so much to the development of Analytics Labs and future development of community dashboards. We […]

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Analytics Labs recruitment – update

We’ve already received some excellent applications for the upcoming Analytics Labs and have been able to begin to shape up the order in which themed labs will run. We’ve also received feedback on the original deadline so we extended it. A re-cap on Analytics Labs, its benefits and how to get involved How would your […]

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Update: additional themes and dates available for Analytics Labs – interested? Apply now!

We have an update on our latest call for applications for Analytics Labs. We are delighted to announce that we have new themes available to applicants: Wellbeing Lab – we are seeing increasing interest in student wellbeing within the sector (various sources including BBC, Universities UK and WonkHE). Outputs might include benchmarking, resource planning and […]