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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 | The impact of curriculum reform on the ethnicity degree awarding gap

23 November 2022

We worked with two universities to establish whether reforming the curriculum to make it more diverse would reduce the ethnicity degree awarding gap

Race and ethnicity
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Report | The impact of curriculum reform on the ethnicity degree awarding gap

A report summarising the evaluation of two curriculum reform interventions that aimed to narrow the degree awarding gap between Black, Asian and minority ethnic students and their white peers.

Race and ethnicity
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Report | Rapid Evidence Review: Intermediate outcomes for higher education access and success

This rapid evidence review summarises 15 psychosocial intermediate outcomes, how they are measured, and the extent to which they are associated with higher education access and success outcomes.

Access to higher education
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Report | Summer schools in the time of COVID-19

This report shares interim findings of TASO’s evaluation of online summer schools taking place between June and August 2021 – the first of two randomised controlled trials of higher education summer schools.

Summer schoolsAdditional study
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Report | What works to reduce equality gaps in employment and employability?

This report explores the existing evidence of what works to reduce employment and employability inequalities, and where gaps lie in existing research.

Employment and employability
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Report | The Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Students

This report explores the subjective wellbeing of LGBTQ+ students based on the analysis of data from the Student Academic Experiences Survey.

Mental health and wellbeing
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Report | Typology of attainment-raising activities conducted by HEPs: Rapid Evidence Review

This report is a review of the evidence on interventions and activities carried out by higher education providers to raise the attainment of school-age students.

Attainment raising
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Report | Impact evaluation with small cohorts: Methodology guidance

It can be challenging to generate effective evidence for widening participation interventions in higher education. This guidance looks at impact evaluation strategies which can be used with small cohorts.

Small cohortsTheory-based evaluation
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Report | What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?

This report explores the factors affecting student mental health in higher education and provides an analysis of the interventions used to support them.

Mental health and wellbeing
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Project | What works to reduce equality gaps in employment and employability?

21 April 2022

This project explored how education providers can improve labour market outcomes for graduates from disadvantaged groups and address gaps in the participation in sandwich courses.

Employment and employability
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Project | Economic value of higher education

17 February 2022

To better understand the various benefits of higher education, this research examined the individual and societal impacts of disadvantaged young people graduating from higher education courses.

Employment and employability
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Project | What works to reduce equality gaps for disabled students

17 February 2022

This project aims to help higher education providers support their disabled students more effectively and address inequalities in their experience of higher education.

Disabled students

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