The most exciting event in the UK HE calendar; a festival of ideas and cutting edge debate about the future of universities. With five different stages, our non-stop programme hosts over 50 sessions over two days.

At Wonkfest we have headline acts and top wonks on our main stage. There are expert discussions, debates and conversations throughout the programme and masterclasses, interactive workshops and training to help you realise the potential of your inner wonk.

Look out for the smaller areas running sessions where you can head to fill up on tips, tricks and toolkits from wonks for wonks.

With an abundance of interesting things to do and see, we think it will be the best two days out of the office that you’ll ever have.

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Event partners

30th May 2019

By jynk-wonkfest-admin

Thank you to our event partners who help us bring the festival to life.

The Guardian

The Guardian Higher Education Network provides the latest news, comment and analysis for university professionals from the world’s leading liberal voice.

AULA

Aula is a communication platform for education. We bring engagement to the core of the digital student experience by replacing learning management systems.

Unite Students

Unite Students is the UK’s largest and most established manager and developer of purpose-built student accommodation. It provides a home for around 50,000 students, in more than 140 properties, across 24 leading university cities across the UK. Unite works in partnership with more than 60 Higher Education institutions and since foundation in 1991 has housed more than 600,000 students.

Interfolio

Interfolio offers the first faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of academic work, from hiring to annual review, committee work, research, activity reporting, and more. With over 250 clients, Interfolio leads the market in innovative technology designed specifically to benefit both institutions and their academic staff.

KPMG

As a leading advisor to the University sector, KPMG brings together many years’ universities experience, a global perspective and good practice from other sectors to support our University clients. We bring this wide perspective to our 120+ university clients as well as experience from our work in Education more broadly: be it government; schools and colleges; as an employer ourselves or our extensive work on the wider skills agenda. It is this depth and breadth of experience that sets us apart.

Nous Group

Nous Group is an award-winning management consulting firm with over 300 staff across the UK and Australia. Nous partners with public, private and member-based organisations to develop strategies, solutions and capabilities that improve performance and influence positive outcomes for them, their customers and the communities in which they operate.

Global Academy Jobs

GA Jobs work together with Wonkhe to provide the latest career opportunities for the Wonkhe community as well as international jobs from global higher education.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

For over 50 years, The Chronicle of Higher Education has independently and intelligently delivered higher-education news and information to the faculty and staff of our world’s colleges and universities.

Microsoft

We are passionate about the power of education to elevate and engage, and in no other sector do we see a better chance to live up to our mission statement to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. We are delighted to be able to bring a global perspective, critical thinking, best practice and countless examples of working across many industries to today’s challenges that our sector is facing.

DataHE

We work with our clients to help them use data better in their strategy, and to leave them with a sustainable internal data capability matched to their needs. We use our expertise to help our clients form questions of the data that will get to the heart of their strategic choices. We then create the right data and right analysis pathway to get the answer, letting the data bring clarity.

EAB

EAB are data enthusiasts and dreamers, researchers and problem-solvers, technologists and innovators. Our firm has a 40-year tradition of delivering exceptional service, insight, and results. Every day, we harness the collective power of 1,500+ schools, colleges, and universities to uncover proven solutions and transformative insights and apply these insights through a customized blend of research, technology, and services.