Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Members onlyNERUPI takes great pleasure in inviting all members to its seventh annual convention, which will be an in-person event at the Friends House in London on the 18 September 2025.
Online
Members onlyThis session draws on research with Black students to examine the racial, socioeconomic, and cultural barriers to participation in higher education, and considers how addressing these challenges through meaningful student voice can enhance experience, belonging, and success.
Online
Members onlyThis session will introduce the initial validation process of a set of newly developed scales designed to measure attributes linked to academic success and outcomes in Higher Education. These include university support knowledge and decision-making, academic and social self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, and graduate progression preparedness.
Online
Members onlyWe are pleased to announce the first STEM Working Group meeting of the academic year. The session will focus on supporting year 12 students with two Lightning Talks from Dr Katrine Solvaag, University of Kent and Dr Antonio Portas, Northumbria University. Talks will explore ways to provide students with hands-on experience of working in a lab, providing students with insights into studying STEM at university, as well as approaches to meaningful evaluation.
Online
Dr Anna Varadi will discuss how Cardiff Parent Power (CPP) community programme empowers parents to initiate campaigns that benefit their community, how the partnership has established a mutually enriching relationship between Cardiff University and the local community. Also, how parents, most of whom do not have first-hand experience of HE, have embraced the opportunity to become HE champions.
13.30 - 15.30 online
Members onlyFor those forced to leave their countries and homes because of war, famine or persecution there is a pressing need for higher education to understand the specific challenges that displaced people encounter in engaging with higher education. This online NERUPI session is an opportunity to consider how universities can support access to and successful participation in undergraduate provision.
online
Members onlyThis workshop is the second in a series of five workshop sessions led by Professor Vikki Boliver and Dr Clare Gartland. The workshops support NERUPI members in sharing and disseminating their research and evaluation around their vital work in WP and social justice. Participants will have the opportunity to publish their work in a special edition of Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education.
Online 13.00 - 15.30
Members onlyMature students and commuter students are both considered to be among the student characteristics that are most likely to indicate risks to equality of opportunity, and as such are included in the Office for Students (OfS) Education Equality of Opportunity Risk Register (EORR). This online NERUPI session is an opportunity to consider how universities can support access to and successful participation in undergraduate provision for these student groups.
online 10.00 - 11.30
In this session specifically for evaluators Rebecca Harland, University of Law, and Jared Patel, Loughborough University, will describe how they used the Racially Inclusive Practice in Assessment Guidance (RIPIAG) tool in their particular contexts
online
Members onlyIn this event Camille Kandiko-Howson, Imperial College London, and Andy Pitchford, University of Westminster, will focus on how we might evaluate the academic, social and economic benefits to students, and the wider society, through approaches that support continuous organisational development to improve student outcomes and experience.