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15 May 2025

STEM Working Group: Initial Meeting

Online

Members only

We are excited to announce that the first meeting for the STEM working group will be taking place on the 15th May 2-4pm. The STEM working group has been set up to share practice and ideas about ways to improve outreach activity, support access, and effectively support success and progression in STEM. The first working group session will start with a lightning talk from Kate Mulcahy from Imperial College London about how the Dangoor Reach out Makerspace is supporting underserved young people from local communities to engage hands on with STEM. Kate will discuss challenges faced and lessons learnt from her work in this space. The meeting will provide opportunities to meet other people working in STEM outreach and supporting students on course.

05 Jun 2025

Writing Journal Articles: Session 1 The Abstract

Online 10.00- 12.00

Members only

This workshop is the first in a series of five workshop sessions led by Professor Vikki Boliver and Dr Clare Gartland. The workshops will support NERUPI members in sharing and disseminating their research and evaluation around their vital work in WP and social justice. The first session will focus on drafting an abstract as this is a great way to get started on your article. Drafting your abstract will help you to clarify the core aims of your article as well as help you remember what you are trying to achieve.

10 Jun 2025

NERUPI Toolkit Event: New Approaches to Impact Evaluation

Online 13.00 - 15.00

Members only

This session will explore the limitations of experimental methods and consider alternatives followed by and introduction to the Toolkit for Access and Participation Evaluation (TAPE)

11 Jun 2025

Mapping Activities to the NERUPI Framework

Online 10.00 - 12.00

This event is for those new to evaluation or who want to find out more about the NERUPI Framework. We will introduce the ideas behind the six main aims and explain the benefits to planning, evaluation and reporting of mapping your activities on to the Framework. Colleagues from Bath Spa University and London Metropolitan University will provide practical examples of how they used the approach in their organisations

12 Jun 2025

STEM Working Group: Medicine not Medics

Online 2.00-3.30

Members only

The next and final meeting for this academic year of the STEM working group will take place on the 12th June 2-4pm. This session will follow on from the previous meeting with a focus on Outreach activity and particularly CEIAG. Louise Crabtree will lead the session with a Lightning Talk about the University of Leeds’ ‘Medicine – not just medics’ programme.

24 Jun 2025

Exploring the impact of ethnicity on access, success & progression to higher education

Online

Members only

Part of our NERUPI series focused on specific student groups highlighted by the Office for Students through their Equalities of Opportunities Risk Register. A specific cluster of risks affect the participation of minority ethnic groups, particularly those identified as ‘black’ or ‘mixed’. These include quality of information and guidance, perceptions of HE, lower application success rates, insufficient academic and personal support, mental health issues and progression to employment. This session will provide an overview of the OfS approach, considering the strengths and limitations of the categories and risk-based system.