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Enables more students to achieve their study goals

Enables more students to achieve their study goals

Arts-based Collaborative Digital Eco-Pedagogies for Teaching about the Climate Crisis and Intersecting Global Challenges in Higher and Distance Education

Project leader(s):  Maria Nita Yoseph Araya

The project aims to start a cross-faculty conversation about the current use of novel reflective, digital, public engagement and teaching methodologies in Higher and distance education (Cooke, Araya, Bacon, et al. 2021; Walsh and Powell, 2019).

Embedding Inclusivity in Economics Curriculum Development

Project leader(s):  Kevin Deane Susan Newman Lorena Lombardozzi Francis Garikayi

The discipline of Economics in the UK has a significant diversity and inclusivity problem. Women, black students, and students from working class backgrounds are under-represented in higher education and academia.

Exploring and Testing Anti-Racism and Decolonising Pedagogy in Online-Forum Learning

Project leader(s):  Alessandra Marino Gunjan Sondhi Karl A. Hack Suki Haider

The purpose of the project is to create spaces to test what an anti-racist pedagogy entails in the context of decolonization.

Integrating OUAnalyse into DE100 to Aid Retention and Progression

Project leader(s):  Cathy Schofield Tracey Elder

OUAnalyse predicts on a weekly basis whether, or not, a student will submit their next assignment.

The Next Chapter: Understanding the Career Aspirations of Students on the MA in Creative Writing, and Developing Teaching and Assessment to Support Them

Project leader(s):  Heather Richardson Ed Hogan Claire Blanchard Lindsey Smith

Creative Writing MAs in traditional bricks and mortar universities such as University of East Anglia and Lancaster are highly selective in their intake and attract students who intend to pursue literary writing as a career.

Exploring Students’ Experiences of Full Time and Flexible Study Intensity on English and Creative Writing Qualifications

Project leader(s):  Hannah Lavery Natalie Lewis Clare Spencer Derek Neale Liz Ford

There is data suggesting that a significant success rate gap exists between students studying on our English and Creative Writing undergraduate degrees at full-time and part-time intensity.

Developing Academic Integrity in Postgraduate Students

Project leader(s):  Sue Nieland Paige Cuffe

This project will explore the development of postgraduate students’ understanding and practice of academic integrity, that is of good academic conduct, focusing particularly on the module Principles of Social and Psychological Inquiry.

Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder): Understanding Students’ Requirements

Project leader(s):  Jo Horne Rhiannon Edwards Angela Eyre

Students with a Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD), such as dyslexia and/or dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder; DCD), are more likely to leave Higher Education without completing their course and with poorer grades than their typically developing peers (Sumner et al., 2021).

Understanding African Postgraduate Student Experience

Project leader(s):  Cristina Santos Kevin Deane Frangton Chiyemura Maureen Mackintosh

The higher education sector has recognised and aims to address recruitment, retention, and award gaps of BAME students.

Evaluating the Impact of ‘You Can Do It!’ Catch-up Sessions

Project leader(s):  Zoe Doye Ieman Hassan Joanna Robson Judith Wilson-Hughes

We have been trialling tutor-led module-wide ‘you can do it’ catch-up sessions on three modules within SSGS (DD102 – 20J and 21B, DD206 – 20J and DD308 – 20J).  DD206 and DD308 ran these sessions initially, with DD102, co

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