26 Nov 2025

Enhancements to the OfS Standards of Evidence Report Launch: OPEN TO NON-MEMBERS

Online, 11.30 - 13.00

The Enhancements to the Standards of Evidence for Access and Participation Plans project was a collaboration between NERUPI members, funded by the UKRI Policy Support Fund. The report launch is an opportunity to hear about how the OfS’s Standards of Evaluation Evidence have been operationalised in a diverse group of institutions, and to contribute to the recommendations resulting for Access and Participation policy makers and practitioners.

04 Dec 2025

Writing journal articles workshop series. Session 3: Drafting your methodology section

Online

Members only

This workshop is the third 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.

08 Dec 2025

Creative HE Working Group: Progression to Employment

Online 10:00 - 11:30.

Members only

This talk will explore Ravensbourne’s differentiated approach to employability, designed to ensure all students, regardless of background, circumstance or confidence level, can access meaningful industry experiences.

17 Dec 2025

Student Carers Working Group: Fostering Belonging and Community

Online 13.00 - 14.30

Members only

In this Working Group session Lena Smith from Cardiff University will be discussing the support provided by Together at Cardiff to student carers of all ages to foster belonging and community.

14 Jan 2026

Contextual offers: supporting the student experience

Online

Members only

In this session we will be considering the effectiveness of contextual offers in both widening access and providing students with opportunities to succeed in their studies. We will also be considering the challenges and stigma students with contextual offers encounter, and ways support these students in progressing to and through higher education.

15 Jan 2026

STEM Working group: Working with secondary schools & students

Online

Members only

This Working group meeting focuses on activities with secondary schools and KS3 – KS4 students. Dr Carl Harrington, University of East Anglia will be talking about integrated ways of working with secondary schools, including teachers, parents and students. Jessica Birch, University of Sunderland, will share experiences of running a targeted intervention with a focus on Medicine, designed to support Year 9 students and help them make informed choices. Please come along to hear about these activities, share your own experiences and discuss different approaches to engaging with secondary schools and students, as well as ways to evaluate this work.

22 Jan 2026

Parents and Carers Working Group - Paradoxical Parenting Practices

Online

Members only

Professor Rachel Brooks will be giving the next Lightning Talk, providing insights from her research into intensive parenting practices of students in higher education. The talk will be followed by discussion with Rachel about the implications of this research for practitioners involved in supporting equitable practices in HE.

28 Jan 2026

Learning from implementing evaluations in your own context: addressing the ethnicity awarding gap

online 2.00 - 3.30 NEW DATE OF 28 JANUARY

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

18 Mar 2026

What is student success and how can we measure it?

online 2.00 - 4.00

Members only

In 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.