HESPA In-person Conference 2027: Session Speaker Expression of Interest Survey

We are very pleased to invite session submissions from the HESPA membership for inclusion in our Spring, In-person Conference which will be held on the 24th and 25th February, 2027 in the Midland Hotel, Manchester. Please note that HESPA offers discounted tickets for conference speakers.

This year our theme is Strategic by Design. The future of our sector should be deliberately shaped, with an informed, strategic destination in mind. The HESPA community is well-placed to enable this future and our conference is an invitation to embrace this role. The pressures higher education faces are well-defined and so we want to ask what can we do in this context to enable informed decision making, how can we make space to act strategically and what approaches enable us to respond with agility?

How have you addressed these issues in your institution? Is there a story to tell that the HESPA community could learn from? If so, we want to hear from you! Aren't sure? Drop our director a line at jonathan@hespa.ac.uk and he'd be happy to talk it through.

We are always keen to hear from a variety of voices and aim for our events to be representative of the range of seniority, gender and background we have in HESPA's community.

This form will be open until Friday 6th November.

Thank you and we're looking forward to hearing from you,

The HESPA team

1.Name(Required.)

2.Institution(Required.)

3.Role/Title(Required.)

4.Name and organisations of co-presenters (if applicable)(Required.)

5.Draft Session Title(Required.)

6.Please provide a short, draft description of your session including audience takeaways and how it fits with our theme. (Max 250 words)(Required.)

7.Will this session have interactive elements? If so, provide some short detail (Max 100 words)(Required.)