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Explore research, view current projects and discover resources, designed to help you plan and deliver effective evaluations for your widening-participation interventions.

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Project | Supporting disabled students: Mapping reasonable adjustments and transition support

11 April 2024

By mapping the kinds of transition support and reasonable adjustments used in higher education, this project increased understanding of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions

Disabled students
Guidance and resources

Guidance and resources

Resources | Theories of change for the ethnicity degree awarding gap (EDAG)

In 2023-24, we commissioned Staffordshire University and Advance HE to produce theories of change and evaluation plans for interventions designed to address the ethnicity degree awarding gap.

Race and ethnicity
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Theory of change to tackle ethnicity degree awarding gaps

13 March 2024

In 2023-24, we commissioned Staffordshire University and Advance HE to produce theories of change and evaluation plans for interventions designed to address the ethnicity degree awarding gap.

Race and ethnicity
Report

Report

Report | From vision to action: harnessing Theory of Change to tackle ethnicity degree awarding gaps

The report provides key recommendations and insights to support the sector in developing theories of change for interventions that aim to address the ethnicity degree awarding gap.

Race and ethnicity
Report

Report

Report | Using learning analytics to prompt student support interventions

Learning analytics can identify students at risk of withdrawing from their studies and prompt support interventions. This report details two randomised controlled trials of these types of interventions.

Learning analytics
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Learning about evaluation with small cohorts: pilots to test the methodologies

10 December 2023

Higher education providers face challenges when evaluating interventions that have small sample sizes. This project involved the piloting of evaluation methodologies that are suitable for small cohorts.

Small cohortsTheory-based evaluation
Report

Report

Report | School’s in for the summer: interim findings on the impact of summer schools

This report sets out interim findings of a randomised controlled trial on the impact of summer schools in getting students from disadvantaged and under-represented groups to participate in higher education.

Additional studySummer schools
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Piloting methods to develop better evidence on student support

9 November 2023

A project exploring what works reduce equality gaps for disabled students in higher education, and how to improve employment and employability outcomes.

Disabled studentsEmployment and employability
Report

Report

Report | Piloting methods to develop better evidence on student support

To explore the effectiveness of using less commonly used evaluation methods to generate evidence, this report sets out the results of evaluations undertaken by four higher education providers.

Disabled students
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Student mental health project

15 October 2023

A range of open access digital resources to help the higher education sector improve support for student mental health

Mental health and wellbeing
Report

Report

Report | Evaluating complex interventions using randomised controlled trials

This report describes the different types of complex intervention and provides guidance on how to evaluate them using randomised controlled trials.

Randomised controlled trials
Report

Report

Report | Student wellbeing over time: analysing Student Academic Experience Survey data for undergraduates and taught postgraduates

This report analyses data to examine how the wellbeing of undergraduate and taught postgraduate students has changed over time, and how it varies according to demographic characteristics and circumstances.

Mental health and wellbeing

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