Working groups

Evaluators' Working Group

About the Group

Many Higher Education Institutions now employ specialist evaluators to meet assess the effectiveness of their access, success and progression provision and meet regulatory requirement. This NERUPI Working Group is designed as a space for colleagues specialising in evaluation to discuss issues and share their practice related to the design and evaluation of programmes and initiatives.

Purpose

  • To provide a space for colleagues to explore evaluation approaches and methods with others in a similar role
  • To share and develop evaluation expertise
  • To develop collaborative research and evaluation projects
  • To provide a collective voice related to widening participation and equity evaluation
  • To inform the design and planning of NERUPI evaluation events
  • To develop the NERUPI Framework and associated tools and resources

Planning Group

Krystal Douglas-Dodd, Impact and Evaluation Officer, University of Westminster,

Lucy Graves, Access Co-ordinator (Evaluation and Projects), Northumbria University

Rebecca Harland, Evaluation Manager, The University of Law

Jonathan Schulte, Evaluation Lead, London School of Economics and Political Science

For NERUPI

Annette Hayton, NERUPI Co-convenor, University of Bath

Joanne Moore, Teaching Fellow, University of Bath

Event Plans

Our series of NERUPI online events for evaluators is an opportunity to get together throughout the year to share practices and approaches to addressing common evaluation challenges. Please let us know which topic ideas would be most useful to prioritize over the next months by completing a short survey below. Running events that add most value to evaluators’ work is really important to us. Thank you in advance for your support.

Evaluators Events 2026-27 Survey


Evaluators Events 2026

Which of the following topics are you most interested in? (5 is very interested and 1 is not interested)
Data Dashboards: role in information management
Student Tracking: evaluating on-course outcomes
APP evaluation management: prioritizing & tracking evaluation efforts
Quantitative methods: supporting practitioners to use data
Evaluating teaching practice: implications for inclusion
Outcomes harvesting: an alternative approach to evidencing changes?
What other evaluation topics are you interested in?
Do you have any evaluation practices, approaches, or challenges, that you’d be willing to share with the group?