Yorkshire Consortium for Equity in Doctoral Education
Equity in doctoral education – the consortium aims to empower individuals and facilitate institutional change. Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University are leading project evaluation and dissemination, providing an evidence base to share with other Higher Education institutions.
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.
Quality enhancement for ITE Partnerships in Wales
Building capacity for an evidence-based, research-informed teaching workforce in Wales
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
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.
Understanding the evaluation of outreach with under-16s from disadvantaged backgrounds
Mapping institutions' HE outreach and access activities
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
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)
Scottish Toolkit for Fair Access
The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council on behalf of the Commissioner for Fair Access invited tenders for the development of a Scottish Toolkit for Fair Access. The strategic gap was identified by the Commission on Widening Access (CoWA).
Research-based Pedagogical Tools in India
Promoting inquiry in university education