The HEDG Autumn Meeting 2025 will be held on Friday 14th November from 09.45- 15:00, the meeting will be delivered online, and if you are unable to attend, you can nominate a deputy. Please note there will also be an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to review the HEDG Constitution, and this will be member only.

This event is free.

Meeting Overview
The theme will focus on Sustaining Scholar Activism, and we aim to give time and space to our community of strategic educational leaders to tap into their power to reform HE for the benefit of our learning communities. We will find connection with our regular 'whats on top' activity; be inspired by national, regional and institutionally specific initiatives reshaping the sector for the better; and close with personal reflection before joining our HEDG Extraordinary General Meeting to review the HEDG Constitution. Join us to tap into and reconnect with what kind of scholar activist and educational leader you would like to be.

HEDG Autumn Meeting draft Agenda, (Including the EGM)

09.45	Welcome and introduction: Turn on, tune in and reignite your fire for HE Professor Jenny Lawrence, PFHEA, NTF, CATE and Sarah Wolfenden, SFHEA
09.55	What’s on top? Sarah Wolfenden, SFHEA, Brunel University, hosts our popular small group discussion and practice sharing.
10.40	Comfort Break
10.50	The New Power University: the potential for positive change Professor Jonathan Grant, King Abdulla University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, shares how his thinking has progressed since the 2021 publication of ‘The New Power University: The social purpose of Higher Education’.
11.30	Comfort Break
11.40	HEDG Shaping the Sector UUK and HEDG Professor Jackie Potter, PFHEA University of Chester HEDG and the Office for Students Quality Consultation Dr Claire Gordon, PFHEA and Professor Letizia Gramaglia, PFHEA, NTF, CATE
12.00	Lunch break and conversation: HEDG Synergies Connect, commune and see where this informal conversation takes us.
12:45	Practitioner, Professor, Researcher, Reformer Emeritus Professor Jackie Carter, NTF reminds us to value activism by reflecting on women’s atypical career stories found in ‘Practitioner, Professor, Researcher, Reformer: Women’s atypical Stories’ (To be published on the 13th November 2025).
13:45	Comfort Break
14.00	Poetry in Promotion, Professor Jenny Lawrence, PFHEA, NTF, CATE Reconnect with your love of Higher Education and reflect on the kind of scholar activist and educational leader you would like to be – through the medium of poetry! Have note pads ready!
14.30	Extraordinary General Meeting Dr Paul Chin, University of Bath, PFHEA. HEDG Chair.
15.00	Close

Place: Online – the link will be circulated before the event

HEDG Website: https://www.hedg.ac.uk/hedg-meetings/