Planning Committee

On behalf of Senate:

1. Oversee the University's strategic planning, monitoring, post-investment evaluation and associated budgeting arrangements
2. Approve and monitor faculty, Professional Services, and thematic strategies and plans, ensuring alignment to the University strategy
3. Approve the financial model, including target faculty operating margins, internal charge rates and budgetary envelope for professional support services for approval by University Executive Board (UEB)
4. Make recommendations to UEB regarding strategic initiatives and allocation of resource
5. Keep under review the University's range of disciplines and their strategies, in the context of the University Strategy
6. Annually recommend to UEB, and monitor, a five-year forecast, including a five-year capital expenditure budget
7. Consider and make recommendations on any matter of strategy or policy referred to it by Senate or UEB or any other body
8. Approve tuition fee rates and accommodation charges.

October 2023

• Professor Ken Badcock, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost (Chair)
• Professor Andy Dougill, Dean, Faculty of Sciences
• Professor Ambrose Field, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Global Strategy
• Professor Tracy Lightfoot, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Teaching, Learning and Students
• Professor Duncan Petrie, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
• Professor Karen Rowlingson, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
• Professor Matthias Ruth, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research
• Professor Kiran Trehan, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Partnerships and Engagement

Members of academic staff (two from each faculty)

• Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  • Dr Aine Sheil, Head of School of Arts and Creative Technologies
  • Professor Monika Schmid, HoD, Language and Linguistic Science
• Faculty of Sciences
  • Professor Kate Flemming, HoD, Health Sciences
  • Professor James Moir, HoD, Biology
• Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Professor Nina Caspersen, Associate Dean for Research and staff member of the Department of Politics and International Relations
  • Professor Paul Wakeling, Education

In attendance

• Tyrrell Basson, IT Director
• Nirmal Borkhataria, Interim Finance Director
• Mike Clark, Head of Academic Accounting
• Simon Donoghue, Director of Strategic Planning and Performance

2023-24

2024-25

2019-20

• 2 October 2019 (PDF , 646kb)

2018-19

• 20 September 2018 (PDF , 208kb)
• 21 November 2018 (PDF , 439kb)
• 6 February 2019 (PDF , 1,089kb)
• 14 March 2019 (PDF , 440kb)
• 24 April 2019 (PDF , 540kb)
• 30 April 2019 (PDF , 547kb)
• 5 June 2019 (PDF , 857kb)