Faculty of the Arts

Community & Belonging:

• Visits to local Renaissance sites: interdisciplinary community building, removal of access barriers, bridging the gap between UG and PGT communities.

Academic & Skills Support:

• Career-Readiness Internships: internship programme with local organisations, training and mentoring from staff and external providers, personal reflections and development plans.

Academic & Skills Support:

• Language Support Sessions: Latin & Greek reading skills classes and peer mentors for language learning.

Community & Belonging:

• Community building: regular themed events outside classroom (academic/social), allow for networking and community building between years of study.

Data Analysis & Research:

• Student Experience Survey - Results and Adjustments: initial survey data gathered 24-25, working on new adjustments, particularly with regard to student voice and community.

Community and Belonging:

• Student Networks: supportive peer networks for students from key underrepresented groups, collaboration across PG/UG.

Data Analysis & Research:

• Third Year Poll: survey of retrospective student experience to gain a holistic view across an extended period of time.

Action for Specific Student Groups:

• ECLS Library: collection of core first-year texts and academic skills support, to aid access to learning resources - especially for WP students.

Community and Belonging:

• Warwick History Hour: radio show and podcast to showcase inclusive/decolonised areas of curriculum, provide community engagement.

Action for Specific Student Groups:

• Student Focus Groups: for Black, Asian and WP students (priority groups identified from awarding gap data). Focus on community and belonging, inclusive curriculum content and delivery.
• History Black Student Network: focus on employability, staff-student connections and co-creation and community.
• Widening Participation Student Network: this year, the student coordinators plan to run coffee mornings (social or themed, e.g. careers/welfare) three times a term to build a consistent space for support and collaboration.

Data Analysis & Research:

• Inclusion Matters - Your Say: survey of UG and PGT on behalf of SIDCOM. Discussing data 25-26 to inform departmental focus and action.

Action for Specific Student Groups:

• Student Disability Champions: disabled students in each discipline to have a peer as a point of contact/representation; raise awareness amongst staff of disabled student experience.

Community & Belonging:

• Effective Mentoring Workshop: training for student mentors to ensure consistency of experience and strength of student community.

Data Analysis & Research:

• Learning from best practises: hiring 8 students to engage in some research to identify teaching practices that are inclusive within their discipline, and use a creative format to communicate findings. Encourage positive critical reflection.

Academic & Skills Support:

• Enhancement Tutors/Study Café: co-created project to support cross-level mentorship and academic community building.

Action for Specific Student Groups:

• Widening Participation Interdisciplinary Studies Fellowship: opportunity for 26 students from underrepresented backgrounds to access mentoring and networking opportunities, work on projects and build community.

Academic & Skills Support:

• Student-led Academic Excellence Sessions: final-year academic mentors to lead peer mentoring sessions and targeted support to bridge attainment gap - both at upper (1/2:1) and lower (3) ends.
• Year Abroad Inclusion Mentors: structured peer-to-peer support to help underrepresented student groups prepare for Year Abroad. Practical lived experience and informal advice from peers. Encourages these students to take a Year Abroad, and aids academic performance/reduces attainment gaps.

Community & Belonging:

• Student Networks: continue to support student network leads, increase sense of community and strengthen inclusion, support departmental change.
• Student Inclusion Officers - Welcome Week: signposting first-year students to services, promote inclusive activities and events, networking and mentoring opportunities, transition support.

Inclusive Pedagogy & Assessment:

• Focus Group on Marking Criteria: redevelop marking criteria to ensure accessible to diverse student groups - including development of visual and plain-language versions, and work around accessibility of Year Abroad communications.

Action for Specific Student Groups

• THRIVE Programme (departmental delivery): mixed group of WP students, enhance wellbeing and support skills development.