The role of HEIDS is to promote high standards in the provision and development of academic, management and administrative information systems throughout the Scottish Higher Education Sector. https://www.heids.ac.uk/ HEIDS works through regular meetings of the main community, sub-communities, and ad-hoc topic-based working communities together with formal and informal contact with other bodies, such as Scottish Funding Council, Universities Scotland, UCISA, and Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) The HEIDS Constitution (updated in June 2022) is available to downloadWho we are
What we do
The Constitution
Member Email lists
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Useful Information
Down a list of the HEIDS Representatives
Download a list of the HEIDS Liaison contacts
Download a list of the HEIDS Affiliates
Committee Members
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HEIDS Chair
- Claire Taylor
- Director, Information Services
- Edinburgh Napier University
- c.taylor3@napier.ac.uk
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Deputy Chair
- Victoria Dishon
- Head of Learner and Academic Services
- Heriot Watt University
- v.dishon@hw.ac.uk
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Secretary
- Mike Whyment
- Programme Director
- University of Aberdeen
- m.whyment@abdn.ac.uk
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