The core ethos of BU’s Fair Access Research programme is that by working and learning together for widening participation we , as an institution and a sector, can better support marginalised people to access and succeed in higher education. We want to find out more about how widening participation is being learnt in the different institutions… Read more » about Organisational Learning and Widening Participation
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Widening opportunities for higher education through financial supports: what are the key determinants?
Bournemouth University’s Fair Access Agreement Management Group recently commissioned a study to investigate the impact of BU administered financial supports/bursaries on student success, retention, well-being, as well as employability. The different bursary types investigated include Maintenance Bursary, Hardship Fund and Care Leavers Bursary. Institutional financial supports to students who may be from low income households or experiencing… Read more » about Widening opportunities for higher education through financial supports: what are the key determinants?
Fair Access Briefing: Published
The Fair Access Research programme is pleased to announce the publication of our first Fair Access Briefing! In this first briefing you get to meet the team and we share with you some of the background to the project. We share a case study of a student co-creation project exploring perceptions of disability during the admissions process and find… Read more » about Fair Access Briefing: Published
Students Who Bounce Back Project
Are you a student carer? If you are a student carer – providing unpaid support to someone who could not manage without your help – you are invited to take part in a photo-diary research project entitled ‘Students who bounce back’, led by Dr Jacqueline Priego, from BU’s Centre for Excellence in Learning. The project… Read more » about Students Who Bounce Back Project
Public Engagement: why it matters for research
Our Research and Knowledge Exchange team just held a public engagement training session led by Steve Dorney. Steve heads up the University of Southampton’s Public Engagement with Research Unit. In the session Steve his expertise to support a mix of BU academics and research students from a whole host of disciplines to know more about public engagement… Read more » about Public Engagement: why it matters for research
Festival of Learning 2016: grassroots responses to educational disadvantage
GRASSROOTS RESPONSES TO REGIONAL EDUCATION CHALLENGES: a workshop As part of BU’s Festival of Learning, our Fair Access Researchers will be facilitating a workshop exploring educational disadvantage in the region. The event will be held on Monday 27 June 2016 between 14:00-16:00 in the new FUSION BUILDING, TALBOT CAMPUS [F107]. Bournemouth, Poole and surrounding region face significant challenges when it comes… Read more » about Festival of Learning 2016: grassroots responses to educational disadvantage
Fair Access Research: Learning Together
The BU Fair Access Research (FAR) project is an innovative project which seeks to make a difference to students by transforming practice through collaborative research. We are co-creating research with students and practitioners (both professional and academic) as part of the university’s commitments to widening participation to higher education. We want to make a sustainable difference to students accessing,… Read more » about Fair Access Research: Learning Together
Supporting you to support your students
As part of the Fair Access Research project we would like academic staff to complete this survey to help us understand how students are supported at BU. Questions of access to higher education do not end (or start) at the university gates. Widening participation involves engagement with a long and complex cycle of learning, as discussed here:… Read more » about Supporting you to support your students
Fair access project fund – proposals to be submitted by 16 Jan 16
BU’s Fair Access Agreement includes a project fund to support Fair Access (FA) and Widening Participation (WP) projects, research and innovation. Faculties and Professional Services are invited to bid for funding to support specific and targeted projects that will have FA or WP impact. The projects will contribute to and inform the growing evidence base… Read more » about Fair access project fund – proposals to be submitted by 16 Jan 16
Fair Access Project Fund
BU’s Fair Access Agreement includes a project fund to support Fair Access (FA) and Widening Participation (WP) projects, research and innovation. Faculties and Professional Services are invited to bid for funding to support specific and targeted projects that will have FA or WP impact. The projects will contribute to and inform the growing evidence base… Read more » about Fair Access Project Fund
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