Collaborative university-wide approach to digital transformation
Join us at Bath Spa University as part of the demonstrating digital transformation events series.
- One day
- Free
This event will be held on
22 May 2025
- Bath Spa University
- 09:30 – 15:45
About
Bath Spa University is one of the 24 pilot institutions that has worked closely with Jisc to test, affirm and contribute to the further development of Jisc’s framework for digital transformation, including the maturity model and action planning toolkit. Their holistic cross institutional project encompass many of the successful attributes to digital transformation.
The team will share experiences of how they approached this project, the challenges encountered and successes achieved so far, and the next steps in their transformational journey.
Bath Spa University had a digital transformation strategy in place that linked to its wider 2030 organisational strategy. They engaged with Jisc’s digital transformation research pilot to test and complement their own approach.
Through this work they were able to identify the good practice already underway and also conduct a gap analysis to ensure that their approach was comprehensive and complementary to their strategic aims.
Bath Spa University has undertaken a comprehensive digital transformation programme, including a move from a previous version of Blackboard to Blackboard Ultra, and a migration from Google to Microsoft 365. The university has also recently signed up to be an Adobe Creative Campus.
With significant changes underway, the team at Bath Spa wanted to review their digitally related strategic plans. The team knew that the digital organisational changes would require university-wide engagement to help successfully integrate the new digital infrastructure. They also felt this was an opportune time to refresh and further develop their digital fluency (digital capability) agenda.
At this event, we will hear from Bath Spa University’s senior leaders who will share their digital transformation strategy, how they are implementing this collaboratively with staff and students across their organisation and how Jisc’s digital transformation toolkit has supported this work.
The 2024-2025 series of demonstrating digital transformation events mirrors the holistic nature of Jisc's framework for digital transformation. It brings together senior leaders with responsibility for taking forward digital transformation within their university including senior executive/director roles in digital, student experience, education, technical, digital and IT services, libraries, estates and facilities management, registry, data management, learning and teaching, research and innovation roles.
To find out more about the focus of this event, please look at the Bath Spa University case study.
Programme
Registration and networking
Welcome and introduction
Sarah Knight, director of digital transformation, Jisc
Professor Georgina Andrews, vice chancellor, Bath Spa University
Bath Spa Story
Professor Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou, vice provost, Bath Spa University
Rachael Johnson-Duval, chief information officer, Bath Spa University
Professor Helen King, director of learning, innovation, development and skills, Bath Spa University
Sean Taylor, senior UX and digital skills developer
Rachel Garman, student experience manager (digital lead)
Breakout session one - developing a collaborative culture
Professor Helen King, director of learning, innovation, development and skills, Bath Spa University
This interactive session will provide an opportunity for you to reflect on your institutional context and to identify opportunities for developing or enhancing a collaborative culture. Using examples and lessons learnt from BSU's approach as well as your own experiences, we will explore opportunities and challenges for collaboration and any actions you can take for your digital strategy and initiatives.
Breakout session two - developing digital fluency
Dr Shaun Mudd, head of teaching expertise development
Sean Taylor, senior UX and digital skills developer
Kobe Distin, graduate digital fluency development officer
What can be learned from Bath Spa’s journey to embed digital fluency at your institution?
Breakout session three - Collaborative Pedagogy & Authentic Assessment
Dr James Baggott-Brown, Senior Lecturer and Subject Coordinator, Critical Studies, Bath Spa University
This session will share BSU’s approach to using digital tools for inclusive, authentic and constructively aligned assessment. It will explore how a module re-imagined its assessment tasks through a collaborative and co-created process with students, academics and professional services. James will share the process of designing the assessment, with students on hand to present their final year projects and share their experiences of the new approach. A reflective discussion activity will then give you an opportunity to consider how it might work in your context.
Lunch and networking
Baselining and driving change in digital transformation
The Jisc team will share an evidence-based approach to using the Framework for digital transformation and maturity model to develop a better understanding of maturity. Delegates will have an opportunity to discuss initial thinking to further develop in their home institutions.
Panel discussion
Chair – Sarah Knight, director of digital transformation, Jisc
Professor Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou, deputy vice chancellor, Bath Spa University
Rachael Johnson-Duval, chief information officer
Plenary and close
Who should attend
Our 2024-2025 series of demonstrating digital transformation events will bring together senior leaders with responsibility for taking forward digital transformation within their university including senior executive/director roles in:
- Student experience
- Education
- Digital and IT services
- Libraries, estates and facilities management
- Registry and data management
- Learning, teaching, research and innovation
Feedback from delegates who have attended our previous demonstration digital transformation events:
- “Supported by Jisc, the event featured a great agenda with a good variety of sessions."
- "The event was well-organised and efficiently run…and the content was delivered very well."
Contact us
For further information, please contact events@jisc.ac.uk.