Strategic Projects Office
We provide leadership and coordination for major change initiatives across the University, through project, programme, portfolio and change management.
Our team is responsible for:
- providing portfolio management that enables the University to prioritise, balance, schedule and resource strategic change
- developing and managing the Project and Change Management Framework to ensure effective project & programme delivery
- providing oversight, assurance and reporting of the strategic projects portfolio
- providing delivery capacity for strategic programme and projects underpinned by change management
- developing capability and confidence in change, project and programme management
- being the Centre of Expertise, providing the wider University with the tools and support networks to support effective change, project and programme management. Visit our SharePoint site for information and resources
Team members
- Sharon Street, Director of Planning, Performance & Strategic Change
- Laura Clapp, Deputy Director of PPSC, Planning, Portfolio and Delivery
- Dragana Houston, Deputy Director of PPSC, Strategy, Insights & Performance
- Laura Lees, Planning, Performance & Strategic Change Department Co-ordinator and Project Officer (MCC)
- Katherine Binks, Portfolio Manager
- Lucy Allen, Programme Manager (Momentum, Capacity and Capability (MCC) Programme)
- Sarah Ibbitson, Project Manager (University Research Management System Project)
- Amy Jeenes, Programme Manager (Innovation District Programme)
- Caroline Laybourn, Project Manager (Data & Insights and Global Voice & Reputation Projects)
- Peter McSweeney, Project Manager (CRM and Website Projects)
- Harriet Smith, Project Manager (Curriculum Transformation Project)
- Amy Jefferies, Project Officer (Extenuating Circumstances for Assessment (ECA) Project)
- Michelle Hale, Programme Manager
- Anouchka Stevens, Programme Coordinator (Digital Futures Projects)
- Mark Donovan, Lead Business Analyst
- Chris Stockley, Senior Business Analyst
- Laura Chapman-Wallis, Business Analyst
- Darina Nikolova, Business Analyst
- Ruth Nwankwo, Business Analyst
- Ben Miller, Lead Change Manager
- Daisy Holden, Change Manager
- Nicola Wright, Change Manager