Resources | Institutional data use

Note: The Data insights guide was previously known as the Data infrastructure guide. We updated the title in November 2025 to more accurately reflect its purpose of demonstrating how to use institutional data to identify equality gaps and for evaluation.

To help the sector generate evidence about what works to support student success we worked with four providers – University of Huddersfield, Lancaster University, Nottingham Trent University and University of East Anglia – who provided institutional data, including student engagement with specific support interventions, for evaluation.

A team from Staffordshire University has independently evaluated this work.

We have published the following resources:

• Report: Facilitating analysis of institutional data: practical steps for providers
• Data infrastructure guide
• Post-entry Mapping Outcomes and Activities Tool (MOAT)

University of Huddersfield: Score As I Learn (SAIL) 

• Enhanced Theory of Change (PDF)
• Trial protocol (PDF)
• Impact evaluation (PDF)
• Implementation and process evaluation (PDF)

Lancaster University: Lancaster Success Programme 

• Enhanced Theory of Change (PDF)
• Trial protocol (PDF)
• Impact evaluation (PDF)
• Implementation and process evaluation (PDF)

Nottingham Trent University: Black Leadership Programme

• Case study: Using institutional data to track post-entry participant outcomes (PDF)
• Case study: Developing a post-HE-entry activity typology and the transition to recording onto HEAT database (PDF)
• Enhanced Theory of Change (PDF)
• Trial protocol (PDF)
• Impact evaluation (PDF)
• Implementation and process evaluation (PDF)

University of East Anglia: Peer Assisted Learning programme

• Enhanced Theory of Change (PDF)
• Trial protocol (PDF)
• Impact evaluation (PDF)
• Implementation and process evaluation (PDF)