Trust underpins a whole range of relationships in higher education: between leaders and staff, educators and students, and between institutional actors and communities and stakeholders outside the institution; as well as the relationship between higher education and the public. But sometimes it doesn’t – trust appears fragile, fragmented, or absent. Who can be trusted in higher education, and on what grounds?

Discussion sessions will take the form of a brief initial provocation followed by open debate and sharing of views from those attending.