Methodology & Impact
The Why
Previous exploration of student transitions has predominantly focused on the entry into, and exit from, Higher Education, and transition to postgraduate study.
There are few published studies into the impacts of moving from first to second year, despite sizeable changes including, for many students at Warwick:
- Moving from the campus into the city
- Managing shared household bills
- Managing relationships with housemates
- Organising time between studying, travelling, working and personal life
We needed to better understand what our students were experience, and this is how we did it.
Insight Panel-
We used the market research and insight panel, which contained a representative sample of the university with approximately 480 students. They gave us a general steer of the things impact students as part of this transition.Questionnaires-
From the insight panel, we digested this down into 2 questionnaires that asked students to rate statements on the impact, struggle or support they felt they received in 1-10 scales.
Workshops- These 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.
Co-creators- Our co-creators dissected, helped analyse and translate what they hear in the workshops and saw on the questionnaires to create proposals that directly fed into our next steps.