Creating connections: expanding horizons for professional services

Through personal opinion, experience, and where appropriate wider evidence the piece explores the personal and professional benefits of creating connections, especially in professional service roles; the current dearth of international connectedness for professional service staff; and a possible model for encouraging greater creation and utilisation of connections for professional service staff in UKHE. The piece makes the case that creating connections, especially those that go beyond professional service staffs’ immediate areas of knowledge and experience, are vital not just for surviving the current HE climate but also for finding a way to thrive within it.