General booking is now open for NERUPI members and places are filling fast so book your ticket now! The NERUPI CONVENTION will be in-person on the 18th September at the wonderful Friends House Euston London. We will be in their new conference suite this time which has adjacent break out rooms and a designated lunch space.
NERUPI CONVENTION: COLLABORATION FOR WIDENING PARTICIPATION: Within and beyond Higher Education - BOOK HERE
In person 18th September at the Friends House Euston, London
Widening participation initiatives have resulted in considerable progress in understanding and delivering activities that improve access, success and progression for under-represented groups, despite the challenges for students and higher education. Nevertheless, significant inequalities remain a feature of sector and the OfS is encouraging a more collaborative approach to address these, based on longer term partnerships.
The NERUPI Convention will give you the opportunity to engage with wider perspectives, retaining existing activities and developing new initiatives. John Blake, Director of Access and Participation OfS will update us on OfS plans for regional collaboration and as always there will be an opportunity to ask John questions. Professor Joyce Liddle from Durham University will set widening participation, knowledge exchange and collaborative partnerships for place transformation in a context of civic and place leadership role for HEIs.
Our expert panel will provide a range of insights into regional working in Widening Participation and will include: Dr Jo Davies from the University of Bath who will highlight the importance a fair geographic distribution of WP opportunities; Vicki Spink, HEPPSY UniConnect who will share their region's strategy for building enduring partnerships; Scott Atkinson, Education Programmes Manager at the Royal Academy of Engineering, who will consider the importance of networking in regional projects and Dr Femi Owolade, Civic University, who will explore how HEIs can align their WP efforts with the civic university
We will also get practical with a workshop session on developing a regional APP led by Sam Dunnett, Head of WP at Sussex and the Sussex Learning Network. This year we are opening up the Convention to UniConnect representatives asking them to share examples of partnership work and explore ways to secure existing activities as we move towards regional organisations.
And of course there will be a variety of practice examples from NERUPI members:
- Sarah Dirrane, Cosmos Ltd - Understanding the Diversity of FE Learners: A Collaborative Approach to Segmentation
- Fleur Middlebrough, University of Salford - Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Within Assessment
- Laura Johnston, Bath Spa, and Rachel McCulloch, Southampton Solent - Steps for Success: Supporting college to university transition
- Laura Bradnam, Birkbeck, University of London - Fake or Real News? Adult community workshops
- Marta Almeida Hill, University of Kent - Collaboration with schools through sponsorship of a Multi Academy Trust
- Jade Wigley and Nina Cupric, University of Staffordshire - Staff-Student co-created programmes for racial equity and neurodiversity
- Isobel Kane, University of Suffolk - The impact of micro-placements on neurodivergent students and their employers
- Chuanyan Zhu, University of Salford - A collaborative model for capturing WP impact
- Emma V Watson and Shreya Sivadhass, Imperial College London - Combatting Maths Anxiety : Working with primary schools in West London
- Katarina Blanco, Manjula Modhwadia and Christine Khalil, University of East London - Supporting young independent people in higher education
- Bilal Hazzouri, Anglia Ruskin University, Chloe Cheetham and Emily Magrath, IntoUniversity- Enhancing metacognitive skills in primary learners
- Emily Scott and Tamara McNeill, Oxford Brookes University and Mauricio Rivera, University of Sussex - Establishing an APP evaluation community of practice
- Toby Pallatt, Anglia Ruskin University - The risk and successes of Anglia Ruskin University’s Outreach programmes
- Julie Vuolo, University of Hertfordshire - Collaborative working to drive improvements in WP practice
- Amy Slater-McGill, Aston University - Aspire to Aston: New innovations for existing pre-16 progressive programmes