At AUDE27 (The University of Edinburgh, 12-15 April) we’ll be summoning up some independent fighting spirit. It can be easy to feel a little daunted by the sheer scale of the challenges we face – on financial sustainability, on energy and net zero, on the funding gap between the services we provide and the income we can earn for our work as universities, on the apparent impossibility of catching up with backlog maintenance. And many others. We won’t be asking you to don your kilt and come over all ‘Braveheart’ at our annual conference. But we will be asking you, in three enjoyable and challenging days with your peers amongst the AUDE community, to tap into your fighting spirit so we can jointly plot some roads ahead.

This AUDE event does not form part of the UDF programme of events.