Student Success 2024: Solutions on Continuation and Completion

Wednesday 27th November 2024
9:30 am - 3:10pm
Virtual Conference

Student Success 2024 will explore how universities can build an evidence-led approach to engagement, continuation and completion with impactful academic and service design at all stages of the student journey.

The Conference will:

  • Explore the latest innovations in supporting enhanced continuation and completion

  • Assess evidence-led solutions on improving engagement and transitions across the student journey

  • Examine the next steps on academic quality and curriculum design in improving attainment for students at risk of non-continuation

  • Analyse the barriers to student success for underrepresented students and how universities are developing provision to reduce inequalities in outcomes

  • Discover fresh insights on embedding student belonging and wellbeing interventions into institution-wide delivery

Why attend the conference?

Gain practical ideas for enhancing the impact of your student success strategy

Uncover new evidence-led approaches to improve student continuation

Work with sector experts to build a toolkit for optimising your student journey

Agenda

09:30 am

Chair’s Welcome Address

Louise Banahene MBE
Director of Educational Engagement and Student Success
University of Leeds (CONFIRMED)

09:40 am

Enhancing the Impact of a Student Success Strategy

  • Re-examining the student journey and the core risks to continuation and completion

  • Building an institution-wide approach to belonging and wellbeing as a driver for success

  • Assessing how we better understand student engagement and deliver high quality interventions

  • The next steps on impactful insight and evaluation in identifying barriers to success for students at risk

  • Supporting improved co-production and collaboration with students

Naomi Oosman-Watts
Director of Student Success
Newcastle University (CONFIRMED)

Jill Gribble
Assistant Director, PVC (Students)
The Open University (CONFIRMED)

Professor Claire Hamshire
Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Education & Student Experience
The University of Salford (CONFIRMED)

10:40 am

Overcoming the Mental Health Barriers to Inclusion – Supporting Belonging to Drive Student Success

  • Managing the unbreakable connection between mental health, belonging and student success

  • The central challenges on self-doubt, isolation and loneliness

  • The core enablers on study, skills and environment that can support positive mental health outcomes across the student experience

  • Embedding mental wellbeing and belonging into a wider student success agenda

  • What are the solutions on inclusive practice to support positive pedagogy, service design and community building?

Professor Kate Lister
Professor of Education and Associate Dean of EDI
Arden University (CONFIRMED)

11:10 am

Break and Networking

11:30 am

Unlocking Student Success: Creating Empowerment Through Engagement Data

  • Student engagement: the shift in responsibility

  • Understanding both context and meaning of student engagement

  • The use of data to provide meaningful insight to student experience and service need

  • Following the data: data engagement and success predictors

  • Our data-Informed Intervention Strategy

Rebecca Lancett
Head of Student Participation and Success
Keele University (CONFIRMED)

Simon Rimmington
Director of Foundation Year
Keele University (CONFIRMED)

12:00 pm

Staff Development Approaches to Support Student Engagement in Learning and Teaching Activities in a Research-Intensive Higher Education Institution

  • Context of our institution and education development unit

  • What does meaningful and impactful student engagement look like?

  • Strategies, tools, and pedagogic approaches to support and encourage meaningful and inclusive student engagement in the Higher Education classroom

    • Including classroom management techniques, active and flipped learning

Dr Peter Fitch
Associate Professor, UCL's Arena Centre for Research-based Education and Associate Director UCL Higher Education and Development Support Institute (Faculty Partnership & Programme Enhancement)
University College London (UCL) (CONFIRMED)

12:30 pm

Climbing the Participation Ladder: Service Design for Meaningful Student Partnership

  • Explore how the Ladder of Participation can transform traditional student engagement into genuine co-creation and partnership

  • Discover practical insights from Warwick on embedding service design principles in student experience initiatives

  • Learn how to apply co-creation methodologies across multiple dimensions - from module design to inclusive education

  • Examine evidence-based examples of how power-sharing and student partnership drive meaningful change in departmental practice

Dr Tom Ritchie
Director of Student Experience
University of Warwick (CONFIRMED)

12:55 pm

Break and Networking

2:00 pm

Designing a Student Success Strategy Aligned to Improving Continuation Rates

  • Building a student success strategy at London Metropolitan University aligned to an established Social Justice Framework

  • Delivering practical action areas for a set of ambitions on supporting continuation after the first year of study and reducing awarding and progression gaps for BAME students

  • Exploring practical solutions on continually surpassing B3 requirements of the Office for Students

  • Setting a structure for performance indicators that can be clearly linked to student outcomes

  • Examining approaches to monitoring and evaluating the delivery of a student success strategy

Alexandra Banks
Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Student Success
London Metropolitan University (CONFIRMED)

2:30 pm

Building a Theory of Change to Address Ethnicity Degree Awarding Gaps

  • A deep dive on the TASO study exploring interventions used by 6 universities on closing the ethnicity degree awarding gap

  • Assessing how to move from intervention design to an established Theory of Change which links action areas to intended outcomes

  • What are the core features in developing a Theory of Change around closing ethnicity degree awarding gaps?

  • How can a Theory of Change improve understanding of interventions and support new approaches to design and investment?

Dr Sally Andrews
Pedagogic Projects Dev Manager
Staffordshire University (CONFIRMED)

Sarah Conner
Research Manager
TASO (CONFIRMED)

3:10 pm

Conference Close

*Programme subject to change

Audience

This event is designed for all those delivering the student success agenda across higher education. Those in attendance will include:

  • Directors of Academic Quality

  • Directors for Student and Academic Services

  • Directors of Student Learning

  • Directors of Student Experience

  • Deans for Teaching and Learning

  • Associate Deans

  • Academic Registrars

  • Pro Vice Chancellors for Education

  • Heads of Student Life

  • Heads of Student Success

  • Heads of Student Engagement

  • Academic Quality Managers

  • Student Engagement Managers

  • Student Success Manager

  • Widening Participation Managers

Secure Your Ticket

Public Sector (HE)

£345 + VAT

Attendance to Student Success 2024

Private Sector

£595 + VAT

Attendance to Student Success 2024

For group discounts and enquiries about your registration please contact us on enquiries@heprofessional.co.uk