Author
Julian Crockford
Julian Crockford is a researcher and evaluator in the Student Experience Evaluation and Research team at Sheffield Hallam University. He is also Associate Director of SEER, a specialist widening participation research and evaluation service working largely with small specialist HE providers.
11 pieces
Newest first, since November 2017
· Comment
What’s next in equality of opportunity evaluation?
A new access and participation evidence library is coming. On behalf of the Evaluation Collective, Julian Crockford is looking forward to the knowledge sharing to come
· Comment
Will the regulator’s proposals on what works work?
As the consultation on OfS’ new approach to access and participation closes, Julian Crockford wonders whether proposals on evaluation go far enough
· Comment
The HE sector should seize the day on school-university partnerships
As OfS invites variations to access and participation plans with a focus on working with schools, Julian Crockford eyes the opportunities
· Comment
Brief encounters of the evaluation kind
Julian Crockford disentangles demands for access and participation work to prove its impact and efficacy
· Comment
Is Michelle Donelan deliberately trolling us now?
Julian Crockford wonders what Michelle Dolenan’s latest intervention into the sector’s culture wars really means.
· Comment
Agile critical-reflexive students? Start them early!
For Julian Crockford, graduate skills training could start a long way before graduation, or even enrollment.
· Comment
There are false dichotomies in ministerial ideas about “true student mobility”
Do recent references to true social mobility really mean a return to the old elite system? Julian Crockford is concerned about recent ministerial statements.
· Comment
We’re not in Kansas anymore: the new standards of evidence
As a WP practitioner, Julian Crockford of the University of Sheffield reviews the new standards for evidence set by the Office for Students in their latest suite of publications.
· Analysis
Is the shift to outcomes as simple as it sounds?
Julian Crockford looks in detail at OfS’ shift to measuring by outcomes, asking if it’s really as simple as it sounds
· Comment
Reflections on five years of widening participation research and evaluation
The team from WPREU Sheffield outline a book they have published charting five years of widening participation research and evaluation work.
With Greg Brown, Rita Hordósy, Miriam Miller and Zoe Baker
· Comment
Of Magic Bullets and Black Boxes – the role of evaluation in WP outreach
A recent OFFA report evaluates the evaluation of widening participation activity in institutions. Julian Crockford asks what makes for a useful evaluation in this field.