December 2021: An update from our team member, Tim!

Photograph of Tim Dobson

Our institutional Access and Participation Plan (APP), focusses our attention on closing the performance gaps that exist within different student cohorts at UON at the four stages of the student lifecycle; Access, Continuation, Attainment (Award) and Graduate Outcomes. This year, one of the Learning Enhancement Innovating Projects priority funding areas is to address the objectives within the APP. Our Improving Black Attainment by Using Personal Stories project will very much support the attainment (award) objective within the APP which focused on narrowing the black/white student attainment (award) gap to 0% by 2025. Using student stories to identify personal situations and experiences will enable us to assess how, amongst other things, students felt a sense of belonging and identify at UON and how this has impacted on their studies and outcomes. One of the exciting aspects about this research is how our findings could impact on so many students and programmes at our university. The potential impact on student outcomes and engagement is huge and will certainly support the closing of our attainment gap.

Please click on the link for further information: https://www.northampton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/access-and-participation-plan-2020-2025.pdf