“…Whilst geographers have considered knowledge circulation within the established domains of academia (Jöns, 2008(Jöns, , 2009Larner, 2015;Taylor et al, 2008) and law and advertising (Faulconbridge, 2007a(Faulconbridge, , 2007b, the sharing of knowledge amongst this subset of non-academic HE professionals, to facilitate their role as intermediaries between academic and donor, has received far less attention. Given the recent transformations in the UK -most notably, English -HE policy landscape, and the increased necessity for universities to engage in philanthropic fundraising in order to fulfil their institutional mission (Huggins and Johnston, 2009;Warren et al, 2014), this represents a significant omission. In this paper, we commence by highlighting the related literatures on the changing geographies of professional networks and learning, and on neoliberalisation and competition among UK universities.…”