Consultancy work
Susannah is always open to new projects or opportunities where she can support your goals. The themes below provide you with a guide on her expertise as well as a few examples of projects she has undertaken.
Professional Services organisation: Projects have included the review of professional services teams in a large university and in a small specialist institution.
Student-facing policy and academic regulations: Projects have included policy rewrites with 8 institutions (multiple policies) and academic regulation re-writes for 4 institutions.
Policy and operational reviews: Projects have included review of the coherence of academic regulations, review of assessment operations and review of collaborative provision frameworks.
Leadership and governance reviews: Projects have included governance reviews in a large university and in a small specialist institution, as well as reviewing the structure and roles of an institutional executive team.
Readiness assessments: Projects have included assessments for degree-awarding powers, OfS registration and compliance with new OfS conditions (e.g. E6)
Drafting and/or critical review: Projects have included drafting TEF submissions, drafting Student Protection Plans, reviewing submissions for full degree awarding powers and world specialist funding bids.
OfS compliance reviews: Projects have included reviews of compliance with B, C and E6 conditions
Casework: including student complaint investigations, sexual misconduct allegation investigations, staff complaint investigations, mediation. Susannah is a trained workplace investigator (The TCM Group), trained in investigating cases of sexual misconduct (The Consent Collective) and holds a National Certificate in Workplace Mediation.
Job Shadowing HE
Susannah has researched and written over 35 episodes of the Job Shadowing HE podcast which she founded in late 2023.
Season 1: Episodes 1-12 (November 2023 to May 2024)
Mini-Series: Managing Change in HE: Episodes 1-8 (May 2024 to July 2024)
Season 2: Episodes 1-10 (September 2024 to January 2025)
Mini-Series: Leadership Reflections: Episodes 1-5 (February to April 2025)
Season 3: Episodes 1-8 (April to July 2025)