The Higher Education Strategic Planners Association (HESPA) is the representative body for those working in strategy and planning in UK higher education. HESPA supports strategic planners at all stages in their career to network, discuss, improve and influence.

This year the HESPA Annual Conference 2019 will be held at the East Midlands Conference Centre at the University of Nottingham, from 7th - 8th February 2019.

HESPA’s objectives are to:

• To provide an active forum for strategic planners in higher education to network, discuss, improve and influence
• To be the primary organisation dedicated to supporting the professional development and career progression of those working in strategy and planning in UK higher education
• To represent a compelling and unified voice for members, while recognising their contrasting needs and ideas
• To influence and shape the future of higher education by challenging policy and promoting awareness and understanding of strategy and planning issues locally, nationally and internationally
• To establish new and improved ways of engaging stakeholders to benefit strategic planners, their wider connections and the sector overall
• To continually learn and seek out new knowledge and understanding, including that of operational best practice, to expand and improve that of our members

HESPA has continued to grow in size and standing as a higher education membership association and is now a far reaching and influential organisation with excellent links to agencies and other sector bodies, as well as government representatives, media, think tanks and private business suppliers.

The association has over 150 institutional members from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and operates underneath the Professional HE Services (PHES) umbrella alongside BUFDG, HEPA, AUDE and UHR.

For more information about HESPA and its work, please visit the website: http://www.hespa.ac.uk/