After many weeks travelling around the country and to Europe, this week was another week with nothing booked into the diary in terms of events or conferences. This gave me the opportunity to focus on research into the European Higher Education Interoperability Framework (EHEIF) use cases as well as more work on a possible Jisc version of the SURFEduHub.

I finalised the first draft of some position papers on the EHEIF which puts them in the UK context and what it means for Jisc and some of the work we are involved in.

These are very much first draft, or even pre-draft documents. The aim really was to research what I didn’t know, I didn’t know. Now I have resolved the unknown unknowns, the next step will be research these, but also to validate the position papers with the relevant teams within Jisc.

This week I have been working with the consultancy team, supporting them with various pieces of work, helping them (or will be helping them) to quality assure future consultancy projects. This was the same team I worked with last year on the strategic outline cases we worked on at Jisc for the UUK Transformation & Efficiency Taskforce.

Had quite a few discussions this week on the student data model project I have been working on. I do find it useful to discuss the challenges and issues and to see what insights others have in this space.

Also had my quarterly review, which went well, so pleased with that.

I managed to get to the office twice this week, and was able to have some unplanned conversations with others, who were also in the office.