The Strategy and Planning Directorate areas of responsibility include:
- Developing and reporting on the Strategic Plan 2020-2025 and performance measures.
- Advising the Principal, University Secretary & Compliance Officer and Executive Team on strategy, policy, information governance and corporate governance.
- Advising on the University's Outcome Agreement with the Scottish Funding Council (SFC)
- Providing secretariat support to a number of high-level committees, including the University’s Court, Executive Team, Audit and Risk Committee and Fees Strategy Group.
- Providing management information to enable the University Court and Executive Team to take informed decisions.
- Providing management information reports and dashboards through the SUnBIRD (Strathclyde University Business Intelligence Reports and Dashboards) system. Staff can request access by emailing sunbird-support@strath.ac.uk
- Leading on University-wide governance matters.
- Co-ordinating the University's student related returns to the SFC and Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
- Facilitating business planning and external & internal performance monitoring.
- Analysing and reporting on benchmarking data and external performance indicators.
Further information on the University committees and the Charter and Statutes can be found on our University Governance pages.
Team members
- Wesley Rennison, Director of Strategic Planning
- Michael McDaid, Head of Planning & Business Intelligence
- Peter Black, Strategic Planning Manager
- Kate Jack, Senior Strategic Planner (Maternity Leave from November 2023)
- Christine Finnigan, Senior Policy Officer
- Kirsten Fleming, Business Data Reporting Analyst
- Arizona Huby, Business Intelligence Report Developer
- Avery Learoyd, Strategic Planner
- Gerard McAtamney, Senior Business Data Reporting Analyst
- Jan McGhie, Policy Officer
- Chris Mochan, Corporate Governance Officer
- Rene Oudega, Business Intelligence Analyst
- Sarah Parry, Senior Policy Officer
- Allison Shelvey, Executive Officer
- Vacant, Head of Governance & Public Policy
- Vacant, Administrative Assistant
Information on Data Protection, Freedom of Information or Records Management can be found on our Access to Information pages.
Organisational charts
The charts linked below present the organisation of the: