The AUDE team are busy working behind the scenes on the 2025 Summer School residential programme. This page will be updated regularly. Please click to expand each of the sessions below and find out more about them. Please note speakers and session titles are subject to change.
Ground floor Babbage Building, University of Plymouth
Speakers: Syd Cottle, Director of Estates Management, University of Liverpool and AUDE Chair , Professor Richard Davies, Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth and Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Speaker: Trevor Wills, Director of Estates & Facilities, University of Plymouth
Speaker: Trevor Payne, Director of Estates, University of Oxford
Walk to the Leonardo Hotel from the Babbage Building, University of Plymouth is approximately a 12 minute walk/ (0.5 mile).
Leonardo Hotel
Optional meet at the hotel main reception at 19:20 to walk to the Reservoir Café as a group or feel free to head over in your own time. Reservoir Café is approximately a 12 minute walk/ (0.5 mile) from the hotel.
Reservoir Café, University of Plymouth
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Speakers: Jane Harrison-White, Executive Director, AUDE, Stephen Wells, Director of Estates & Facilities, University of East Anglia and AUDE Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group Chair and Rachael Nightingale, Head of HR Business Partnering, University of Plymouth
Speaker: Harvey Dowdy, Interim Director of Estates, Nottingham Trent University
Speaker: Dr Roddy Yarr, Director of Sustainability, University of Glasgow and AUDE Sustainability Advisory Group Chair
Speaker: Lucy Black, Associate Director – Facilities & Student Accommodation, University of Plymouth and AUDE Strategic Facilities Management Group Chair
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Optional meet at the hotel main reception to walk to the Rolle Plaza Marquee as a group or feel free to head over in your own time. The Rolle Plaza Marquee is approximately a 12 minute walk/ (0.5 mile) from the hotel.
Speaker: James Mackenzie-Blackman, Chief Executive and Executive Producer, Theatre Royal Plymouth
Rolle Plaza Marquee, University of Plymouth
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant
Speaker: Helen Wallace, Assistant Director of Estates -Space, Infrastructure & Digital, University of Exeter and AUDE Space Management Group Chair
Speaker: Richard Jordan, Director of Estates & Services, Bath Spa University
Speaker: Louisa Clarke, Verbal Communications Specialist
Optional meet at the hotel main reception at 18:30 to walk to Pier One as a group or feel free to head over in your own time. Pier One is approximately a 22 minute walk/ (0.9 mile) from the hotel. If you require transport for this evening please let the AUDE team know.
Speakers: Dominic Swift, Partner and Kiera Riddy, Associate Barrister, Browne Jacobson
Pier One, Plymouth
Evening kindly supported by Browne Jacobson
Speaker: Andrea James, Director of Estates, Facilities & Residences, Aberystwyth University
Speaker: Mark Swales FINSTLM, HE and Leadership Consultant