We are delighted to introduce a fully online change impact programme, which focusses on how you can build belonging in your institution.
Belonging is a key part of the student experience, contributing to:
- Student retention
- Student attainment
- Student wellbeing.
This change impact programme offers an opportunity for teams at school or programme levels to start to define the concepts of ‘belonging’ and ‘building’ both personally, collaboratively and with a local identity.
Register your interest
If you would like to register your interest in the next cohort, which will commence October 2024, please complete the form by clicking below and we will send you an information sheet with further details.
Key information
- The programme is limited to a maximum of 12 Institutions, with 4 places per institution
- This programme is available at an institutional level only and not to individual departments/schools
- This course is delivered entirely online and participants should ensure they have reliable technical capability to participate. We recommend a laptop, headphones and a good Wi-Fi connection for live online sessions
- The deadline to sign up is 13 September 2024
- Lunch event (online) will take place in November 2024 (date TBC).
Project benefits
- Bespoke provision to help you identify and address challenges around fostering a sense of student belonging at programme level in a School or Faculty, ensuring it meets the needs and ethos of your specific institution and discipline as well as your student cohort
- Drawing on, adapting and creating models, frameworks or toolkits for strategies and initiatives to develop student belonging
- Access to leading experts in learning and teaching, student success and EDI to shape and inform your work in this area
- Network and share practice with colleagues from other institutions who are also developing innovative practices around student belonging in their programmes.
Programme delivery
The programme is offered entirely online, blending live expert-led workshops with accompanying online content to take at your own pace. The online format allows the course to be more widely accessible and offers interaction with peers across a broader international audience.
The online format includes newly devised and well-received interactive e-resources that are clearly presented, easy to use and encourage engagement with the key content of the course.
Project outline
Interactive e-resource - a framework for student needs
The framework encompasses the concept of belonging and will enable institutions to deepen their understanding of how belonging interrelates with student needs and to evaluate their own service design.
Diagnostic survey (sent w/c 30 September 2024)
We will survey participants using a diagnostic tool aligned to relevant Student Success Frameworks, as a benchmark to identify key challenges and needs and identify existing good practice across participating institutions.
Introductory consultation (w/c 28 October 2024)
Our Project Lead will meet with the representatives who will be invited to reflect and report on concerns and needs in relation to their own context.
Launch event (November 2024)
This online opening event will be an opportunity for participants to collaborate with project leads from participating institutions to identify opportunities and goals, develop approaches and share practice.
A series of online discursive workshops (to take place January - March 2025)
These will be focused on the student needs framework, gap analysis, belonging and becoming, evaluation strategies, and the underpinning evidence base. These workshops will facilitate knowledge exchange and good practice sharing among institutions, all while benefiting from Advance HE’s expertise in bespoke consultative support and development.
Closing event (April 2025)
This online closing event will be an opportunity for participants to come together, network and reflect on the programme and their learnings.