05 December 2018 
Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager
While we know our members have busy day jobs, it’s worth making time for a little bit of extra-curricular reading. You never know what dusty synapses might fire up; what useful connections or comparisons you might be able to make with your own work.
For this week I haven’t strayed too far from the HE Finance tree, but I particularly enjoyed an article on Wonkhe from an ‘Imp’ in the ‘Machine’ at Teeside University, Mariana Hilditch. It’s a brilliant medium read about the essential role of ‘data wranglers’ at UK universities. There are some great takeaways for finance managers: you need to know where your ‘Hidden Data Factories’ are; you probably need to know a lot more about Data Futures; and you might want to recruit more English / Arts graduates.
If you’ve read anything off-piste recently but found it surprisingly useful for your role, drop Matt an email and he’ll share it in a future Digest.
