The Secret Life of Students 2022 resources

Doing diversity differently

Opening: Doing diversity differently means doing away with sticking plasters

Student futures are about belonging

Wonkhe and Pearson surveyed more than 5,000 students on belonging and inclusion at university. Their findings are summarised in the slides here and in this article on the Wonkhe site.

From Pearson:

To take part in further discussion about belonging and inclusion, join the group on HE Innovate (Pearson’s online community of practice). We’ll share updates on the ongoing research with Wonkhe, our partner students’ unions, and details of any related events.

To learn about how Pearson products and services can help you to scale blended learning and support students please visit our website.

From the UPP Foundation Students Futures Commission:

As the work of the Students Futures Commission culminates with a final report, Mary Curnock Cook calls on the sector to take up the challenge and secure students’ futures post pandemic. Also, slides covering key themes for student futures manifestos.

Is the culture war a generational conflict?

Take another look at the slide deck from Bobby Duffy, professor of public policy and director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London, and author of Generations – does when you’re born shape who you are?

Doing diversity differently in research and practice

Here are projects that are breaking radical new ground in tackling some of the most difficult challenges in student life including access and participation and diversity on campus – turning the tables on power and strategy – and taking a “diversity first” approach in the student interest:

• The Big Change – Manchester Metropolitan University with Counterculture LLP (and the video we didn’t get to see, along with the website)
• Crits and inclusive learning at University of the Arts London (see the research report)
• Do students from different ethnic backgrounds experience university differently? If so, in what ways? – Herts SU(see the research)

Careers 2032 – preparing for the next decade of careers support

• Slide deck from Charles Handy, University Partnerships – Handshake UK
• Slide deck from Zuleikha Chikh – President, UCLan Students’ Union

From Handshake:

We hope you enjoyed “Careers 2032 – preparing for the next decade of careers support.” The Careers2032 report produced in partnership with AGCAS, the Institute of Student Employers, Wonkhe, and Handshake examines the future of student and graduate career development and recruitment.

These videos show how our partners at the University of Liverpool, Falmouth University and University of Cambridge are using Handshake to engage more students, drive more opportunities for their students and empower their careers services team via powerful technology.

If you’d like to continue the conversation with Handshake, we’d love to hear from you! Email us at ukpartnerships@joinhandshake.com

Making good digital decisions –how can technology deliver on its promise to transform student learning?

Drawing on Wonkhe/Kortext research with higher education leaders, this session explored the ways that technology can serve the wider goals of high quality and flexible student learning experience: slide deck

Engagement data to student success – learning analytics in the real world

In 2021-22 Wonkhe and Solutionpath are convening an action research set bringing together professionals from six institutions each exploring a different aspect of how engagement data is used in day to day practice in universities. This slide deck outlines the work in progress on how HE professionals can engage in diverse ways with student engagement data, and the experience and value of researching practice to enhance student support.

From Solutionpath:

Here is StREAM which provides educators with student engagement insight at cohort, course, module and individual level in a single platform.

Ready, Steady No – who do we think they are?

This session explored the idea of “becoming” a student and dug into some of the ways in which both universities and their staff, and students themselves, can be supported to ensure that students swim rather than sink: Slide deck

An institutional infrastructure for student wellbeing 

Slide deck from Santosh Carvalho, Transformation Director EMEA, Salesforce.org on student wellbeing and success: how tech can accelerate your impact – a framework for self-diagnosis.

From Salesforce.org:

You can find Salesforce.org’s Student Success Hub for Higher Education here. Click here to email us for more information.

Curriculum challenge!

Mark Andrews from Adobe set out the thinking so far on skills, digital capability and assessment in this video before the presentation shared an outline for a fast-paced curriculum development exercise.

From Adobe:

• Templates to help you to design an inclusive curriculum that meets the personal, intellectual, and professional needs of students – and in the process reflect on where the opportunities are for curriculum development in your own context.
• Recent Wonkhe/Adobe research:
  • Changing assessment (Jan 2022)
  • A curriculum for a complex world (June 2021)
  • Skills to Thrive (Jan 2021)
• Adobe’s creative campus brochure