20 Oct 2025

Higher education and student refugees

13.30 - 15.30 online

Members only

For 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.

21 Oct 2025

Writing journal articles workshop series. Session 2: Drafting your introduction and literature review

online

Members only

This 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.

23 Oct 2025

Mature and Commuter Students

Online 13.00 - 15.30

Members only

Mature 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.

20 Nov 2025

Transition to Higher Education: From widening access to student success

Online, 14.00-15.30

Members only

The transition from school or college to becoming an undergraduate is challenging for all students. For those who have been underserved by education and come from marginalised communities the higher education environment can feel quite alien. In this session Marva de la Coudray, Director of Centre for Teaching Enhancement and Director for the Centre for Equity & Inclusion will consider some of the challenges that increasing the diversity of the student population presents and explore strategies for transforming higher education to improve the experience for all students.

26 Nov 2025

Enhancements to the Standards of Evidence for Access and Participation Plans: Report Launch

Online, 11.30 - 13.00

Members only

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.

20 Jan 2026

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

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

18 Mar 2026

What is student success and how can we measure it?

online

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.