Within Planning Division, the Management Information team is responsible for providing data and analysis to support decision-making activities for the School.
Responsibilities
We promote co-ordinated management information working in several key areas:
- Undertaking census counts of the School Population for planning and resource allocation, including publicly available student data as well as internal data visualisations.
- Analysis of School activities relating to Widening Participation, Student Experience and Careers.
- Promotion of Tableau - the School’s visualisation tool - and production of resources for Tableau developers at the School, such as the Data Visualisation Style Guide for design principles.
- Joint responsibility for the Data and Management Information Strategy with DTS and leading on the development of a data platform for the School in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Management of access to Heidi Plus - an analysis resource for UK benchmarking - and promotion of external resources on UK higher education.
- Co-ordination and submission of several statutory returns including: HESES, HE-BCI and Provider Profile. Support of other statutory activities with data and analysis.
News
Recent news and upcoming work for the current academic year can be found below.
• Ellen Austin has left LSE to join UPP as a Senior Data Analyst. We want to thank Ellen for her dedication and impact, and wish her all the best in their new role.
• We look forward to welcoming Lorna Stevenson to the team as Senior Data Analyst (Education and Student Experience) from 1 August 2024.
• For the data platform DTS has created a Data & Tools Usage Survey on accessing and consuming data that will close on 12 July 2024.
Contact us
Details of staff in the Management Information team and their responsibilities are located on the Planning Division About us webpage.
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