Featured below and attached are two documents from the Convention for Higher Education on the future of higher education (HE) in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. The documents resulted from two online events at which more than 500 colleagues had registered. They outline some key principles that should underpin the reshaping of the sector over the coming period. They provide the foundation for a much more detailed plan that will be drawn up over the next two months through future online events.

Researchers within our Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) have developed a new programme of work in response to COVID-19, which has been driven both by their knowledge of data availability and by discussions with civic partners about knowledge gaps or analytical requirements.