Projects
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OFFA Access Agreements - Content and discourse analysis
Leading research on the widening participation agenda in the higher education sector in England using critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Political Discourse Analysis (PDA)
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Social mobility challenges faced by young Muslims in the UK
SIoE research finds that young Muslims in the UK face significant barriers to social mobility.
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Mobilising family support: implications for the academic resilience of international students
This project focuses on international students, exploring the impact of family support or, conversely, estrangement from family, during their UK studies.
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Research-based Pedagogical Tools in India
Promoting inquiry in university education
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It's about time: more equitable understandings of the impact of time for students in HE
This research focuses on topics of equity in higher education and institutional structures and assumptions of ‘time’ in teaching and learning environments.
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'The little tactics of the habitat': Developing posthumanist methodologies to research how new educational spaces are claimed and made liveable.
This project develops posthumanist research methodologies to explore material, performative, and social place-making practices in ‘new’ educational spaces.
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Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education
SIoE Professor Professor Colin McCaig is contributor and co-editor of new book on English higher education policy and equality
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Understanding the impact of financial support on student success: an institutional approach
For this initiative, data management staff at six universities worked to identify data fields that enabled them to better identify recipients of bursaries and scholarships so that institutions can better track their effectiveness.
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Understanding the evaluation of outreach with under-16s from disadvantaged backgrounds
Mapping institutions' HE outreach and access activities
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National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) Evaluation
Evaluation team led by SIoE's Professor Colin McCaig finds that the NTFS is highly valued by the HE sector