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Insights event: The student voice: Findings from Advance HE's student experience surveys

This virtual Insights event will draw on findings from Advance HE 's just-published reports from the 2021 surveys: Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES); Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES); and UK Engagement Survey (UKES).

Over the past two years, Advance HE surveys have engaged with over 120,000 students.

In this Survey Insights event we will share key findings on student mental health and wellbeing across our three recent student surveys.

Date: 10 December 2021

Location: Virtual

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  • UK Engagement Survey (UKES) the only undergraduate survey in the UK to focus on student engagement, provides vital information which can be used to enhance learning and teaching.

     
  • Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) allowed taught postgraduate students to give feedback about learning, teaching and other aspects of their courses, informing enhancements to their experience.

     
  • Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) allowed postgraduate research students to give feedback about their learning experience, supervision, and research environment, informing enhancements to their experience. 
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Given the challenges students and higher education institutes have faced during 2020-2021, it is no surprise that the challenges of remote learning and isolation from peers and lecturers have resulted in increased mental health concerns (UKES, 2021).

This event will focus on student mental health and wellbeing, access to support, as well as students' perception of HEIs' handling of Covid-19. We will hear from the insight team at Advance HE as well as students and staff about their interpretation of the key findings, and how the student voice can be used to enhance undergraduate and postgraduate students' experience within their own context.

Who should attend?

Those with responsibility for the student academic experience and student engagement more widely, SU teams wishing to widen their student engagement, course leaders seeking to have a more engaged cohort and others focused on the student experience and improving student outcomes.

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Facilitators

Hannah Griffin-James

Researcher (Knowledge, Innovation & Delivery)
,
Advance HE
Hannah Griffin-James
Hannah is a PhD graduate who is experienced in managing complex research projects in higher education. Her expertise lies in advanced quantitative statistics, previously working on large global surveys as a post-doctoral research associate and analyst in market research.

Maddie Pitkin

Researcher
,
Advance HE
Maddie Pitkin researcher
Maddie is Research and Insights Executive at Advance HE and a Market Research Society (MRS) accredited researcher.

Jason Leman

Surveys Officer
,
Advance HE
Jason Leman, Advance HE
Jason is Surveys Executive at Advance HE, where he has worked on the development and running of the Postgraduate Taught and Research Experience Surveys (PTES and PRES) along with the UK Engagement Survey (UKES) for over a decade. Jason also has experience with a wide range of research methodologies, including literature reviews, case-study research and semi-structured interviewing.

Speakers

Dr Joan O' Mahony

Director of Academic Development
,
Bloomsbury Institute
Dr Joan O' Mahony
Joan is Director of Academic Development at Bloomsbury Institute. Previously she was Senior Adviser for Teaching & Learning at Advance HE and before that at Higher Education Academy where she led the HEA’s work on student retention.

Michelle Morgan

Higher Education Consultant
,
Advance HE
Michelle Morgan
Dr Michelle Morgan is a national and internationally recognised Student Experience Transitions Specialist across all levels of study and is extensively published in the area. She is currently Dean of Students at the University of East London. Michelle is a Principal Fellow of the HEA, Fellow of the AUA , an elected council member of UKCGE and Student Minds Mental Health Charter Assessor. During her varied career, Michelle has been a faculty manager, lecturer, researcher and academic manager. She describes herself as a ‘Third Space Integrated Student Experience Practitioner’ who develops initiatives based on pragmatic and practical research. Michelle has over 50 publications and has presented over 100 national and international conference papers (including 58 keynotes and 35 invited papers). She has developed a free portal for staff which provides a range of information and links for anyone interested in improving the student experience in higher education. www.improvingthestudentexperience.com 

Michelle was creator and PI/Project Lead of an innovative, £2.7 million, 11 university collaborative HEFCE grant, looking at the study expectations and attitudes of postgraduate taught (PGT) students. The project report received praise from across the sector including UKCGE, OFFA, the HEA and the Engineering Professor’s Council. http://www.improvingthestudentexperience.com/library/PG_documents/Postgraduate_Experience_Report_Final.pdf