1. Exeter Cascade project Baseline report and beyond

2. Focus and purpose of baseline Project aims to implement a range of innovative strategies which ensure that students and staff develop their digital capabilities in the context of their own disciplines Focus is on digital scholarship, collaboration across the curriculum, and postgraduate researchers as change agents Needed to find out how digital scholarship is perceived and understood, how it is practiced, and how it is supported by policy, infrastructure, and professional services

3. Methods Closely followed JISC structure and audit tools Review of existing policies, strategies and professional services, plus Online survey distributed to PGRs in five colleges: 169 responses 3 focus groups totalling 13 PGRs Interviews with 18 individual PGRs Interviews with 16 academic and 11 professional staff

4. Key messages Strategic focus on research excellence, global position Push for digital scholarship to support innovation in research, teaching, and knowledge transfer Infrastructure issues: network being upgraded, move to bring your own device/ service (BYOD/BYOS) Culture is collegial and devolved: limited control from centre Expertise: PGRs are using a wide range of technologies esp social, third-party/cloud, mobile Particularly pioneering in their approaches to data capture, data visualisation, virtual collaboration and digital networking PGRs develop expertise: thru exploration, self-reliance, peers, but need more structured support for advanced uses Potential for PGRs to be 360-degree change agents (but...) Professional/support services also have key role to play