{"id":5368,"date":"2017-06-01T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2017-06-01T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T10:53:05","slug":"my-voice-my-story-the-lived-experience-of-being-a-non-traditional-student-at-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/06\/01\/my-voice-my-story-the-lived-experience-of-being-a-non-traditional-student-at-university\/","title":{"rendered":"My voice, my story: the lived experience of being a non-traditional student at university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zR9Etrwt8fE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Fair Access Research (FAR) team have been working with students to explore what it means to be a non-traditional student at university through the student voice, using photovoice, a participatory photographic and story technique.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0undergraduates involved in the research, who were from\u00a0widening participation (WP)\u00a0backgrounds, became research co-creators. They took photographs to represent their experiences of being a non-traditional student in higher education which they shared within their group then explored and analysed further together. The students then wrote short excerpts relating to\u00a0their individual photographs.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0stories and photographs were then shared at a workshop as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science held at BU. \u00a0Academics and WP practitioners from a variety of different universities attended the workshop to interpret and explore the impact of the students\u2019 stories. Participants engaged in co-creation, listening to students\u2019 voices, learning from their stories, hearing about the photovoice research method and working together to develop practical responses to some of the challenges which the stories presented.<\/p>\n<p>The themes which emerged through an analysis of the research data include the concepts of\u00a0<em>transition<\/em>,\u00a0<em>connectedness<\/em> and\u00a0<em>the journey<\/em>.\u00a0 The images and associated stories told by the students were then shared with a group of BU media students who created the video montage above.<\/p>\n<p>One of the central tenets of the photovoice method is that the participatory approach is used to inform policymakers so that meaningful policy changes can be shaped in unison with the lived experiences of the communities the policies are intended to serve.\u00a0 Listening to students\u2019 voices and hearing students\u2019 own stories of their lived experiences of university can help ensure that policies are developed and implemented that work with the lives and needs of non-traditional students.\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The video has been posted on\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrc.ac.uk\/public-engagement\/festival-of-social-science\/previous-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESRC website <\/a>and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zR9Etrwt8fE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of the \u2018Experience\u2019 theme. One of five themes in the Fair Access Research project<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5271 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram-768x770.png 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram-125x125.png 125w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2017\/05\/Fair-Access-Research-project-diagram.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fair Access Research (FAR) team have been working with students to explore what it means to be a non-traditional student at university through the student voice, using photovoice, a participatory photographic and story technique. The\u00a0undergraduates involved in the research, who were from\u00a0widening participation (WP)\u00a0backgrounds, became research co-creators. 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