A project seeking to understand and better support students transition from their first to their second year. This project will run from October 2023-September 2024.
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Our Project
We have undertaken a project focusing on first to second year undergraduate transitions- the different aspects that affect students' experience and how/where the University could provide increased support. The purpose of the project is to reduce incidences of students experiencing stress, isolation, hardship or other negative impacts that may result in decreased satisfaction with the University, disengagement from studies or withdrawal.
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Our Students
This project has been designed with a student co-creation approach, where 10 students worked alongside the project lead to identify, define and prioritise the key issues that students face. The co-creators used a peer-to-peer model, running the workshops where students were invited to share their experiences of moving from first to second year. They then worked creatively to build proposals for solutions.
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Our Workshops
These workshops encompassed over 100 students and ran over a one-month period in Term 2, Year 23/34. They were 2-hour sessions, where students were able to talk through their own experiences. The second half of the session focused on what kind of solutions students would want to see, what kind of format, or if there was anything they found went well and how we might be able to share that with other students.
We are delighted to welcome Navraj and Alisha to the co-creation team, who will be taking on the position of co-creation leads!
Watch this space for our remaining co-creation officers who will join us in January!
Find out what we've done and where we are in our project, and how we're planning on making it work!
The project is still ongoing, and we're working on finding out everything we can for now! As soon as we've started working on solutions we'll post it here!
If you're interested in this, you may want to check out our co-creation toolkit:
