The role of HEIDS is to promote high standards in the provision and development of academic, management and administrative information systems throughout the Scottish Higher Education Sector. https://www.heids.ac.uk/ HEIDS works through regular meetings of the main group, sub-groups, and ad-hoc topic-based working groups together with formal and informal contact with other bodies, such as Scottish Funding Council, Universities Scotland, UCISA, and Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL)Who we are
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Committee Members
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HEIDS Chair
- Claire Taylor
- Director, Information Services
- Edinburgh Napier University
- c.taylor3@napier.ac.uk
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Vice Chair
- Victoria Dishon
- Head of Learner and Academic Services
- Heriot Watt University
- v.dishon@hw.ac.uk
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Secretary
- Mike Whyment
- Programme Director
- University of Aberdeen
- m.whyment@abdn.ac.uk
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by Rob Howe, Emma Heron, and Muhammed Hafiz, University of Northampton Presented at UCISA, January 14th, 2025
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