Online Course
Space Management Basecamp
Level 2
Explore space strategy and policy best practice. Learn how to strengthen relationships with deans, academics and other colleagues who are crucial to the space planning process.
This live, interactive course – developed with AUDE – is for you if you’re an experienced space manager looking to take your strategic skills to the next level.
A supportive space to supercharge your skills
Deep-dive into strategy and policy development
You’ll analyse your existing strategy and policy and identify ways you can improve it.
Then learn how to make sure people stick to it!
Get your academics on your side
Discover frameworks for working collaboratively, managing expectations and multiple requests, so that colleagues understand and support what you do.
See how others manage their space
Explore the challenges other universities face when it comes to strategy, policy and stakeholder relationships – so you can borrow ideas and see where you’re already ahead of the curve.
Leave with a plan
Finish the course with a solid plan to develop and roll out a space strategy and policy that aligns with your university’s wider goals
Is this course for me?
If you’re a space manager with some experience, who wants to get to grips with some of the ‘bigger picture’ stuff around strategy and policy, then yes! That includes things like being able to influence both space strategy and policy, how to manage expectations and negotiate with academics, heads of schools and other stakeholders, and how you can use space planning to help achieve your university’s wider goals.
“A useful, focused and practical course. It's given me practical strategies that I have already started using, and increased my confidence as a space manager."
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Overview
Why learn with us?
Small cohorts
You’ll be in a small, supportive group with no more than 8 learners. So we can adjust content to your needs and give you the time and space to network, share experiences and problem-solve together.
No death by PowerPoint
No one wants to sit through boring slides. We believe in a hands-on, active approach. It’s all about helping you find solutions that work for you, not preaching to you about how it “should” be done.
Learning that fits round you
The course is spread out over two and a half weeks and taught online – giving you space to fit your learning in around your busy role.
We know our stuff
Our experts have 75 years’ of higher education experience between them, and we’ve delivered courses for space managers at more than 25 universities.
We’re CPD accredited
Walk away with 28 CPD points toward your own Continuing Professional Development when you complete the course.
No fiddly software to install
The course is hosted on a cloud-based, secure platform that doesn’t require you to download a thing.
The details
Dates for your diary
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The Facilitators
David Reanney
Space Management Facilitator
With over 15 years of experience within a space planning context, David has a particular interest in the nexus between scheduling, space management and forecasting. During this span David has moved his practise in planning from a highly effective operational focus, to an increased delivery in tactical and strategic outputs and integrating this into capital and service planning.
Terry Roche
SPACE MANAGEMENT FACILITATOR
Terry is a highly experienced strategic facilities planner with a 30-year career working with Universities in the UK, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. He has been responsible for numerous innovations in the way organisations plan their Estate to meet strategic objectives with a strong focus on resource optimisation.
Peter Howells
Space Management Facilitator
Peter has nearly 20 years experience in strategic asset management and capital development in the Higher Education sector, having worked with a number of Russell Group and Post-92 institutions. He has a particular passion for digital innovation & smart technology and how the space and time dimensions collide to inform the sustainable management of property portfolios.
Dave Beavis
Space Management Facilitator
With 14 years of space management experience at a Russell Group institution, Dave understands the strategic importance of robust space data and how it underpins key activities within HE estates. As founder of the Higher Education Space Management Group, he led on the creation of operational tools which are now used by many HE institutions, and was recently chair of the AUDE SM group, involved in actively responding to strategic space challenges facing HE.
Take your skills to new heights!
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