HEPI Annual Review, 2020/21

HEPI Annual Review, 2020/21 Summary The Higher Education Policy Institute is a charity that was established in 2002 ‘to promote research into and understanding of all aspects of higher education and to disseminate the useful results of such research for the education of policy makers and the general public in the United Kingdom’. [...] HEPI was the runner up for the Social Policy Award and the Director was shortlisted for the inaugural Think Tanker of the Year Award. [...] Our published output was lower than in the previous year, reflecting lower staffing during the pandemic, but the number of publications was the same as in 2017/18 and higher than in every other year: HEPI produced 34 pieces of original research in 2019/20; 25 in 2018/19; 26 in 2017/18; 18 in 2016/17; 16 in 2015/16; 15 in 2014/15; 10 in 2013/14; and under 10 in each previous year. [...] • the HEPI Annual Conference on ‘Learning from the Crisis’, sponsored by Lloyds Bank and UPP, including speeches from the Secretary of State for Education and the Chief Executive of the Office for Students; • the HEPI Policy Briefing Day, including sessions on policymaking, gender and higher education in the media; • a half-day conference with HEPI Partner Elsevier on ‘The Research Landscape’ with. [...] Over the 2020/21 year as a whole, we scored just under 620,000 hits, which is 22% higher than in the previous year, continuing the previous pattern of strong annual growth and reflecting particular interest in posts around the 2020 school-leaving results: there were 510,000 hits in 2019/20, 300,000 in 2018/19, 230,000 in 2017/18, 160,000 in 2016/17 and 130,000 in 2015/16.