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Do you find this too? When you change your car, you seem to notice more of your new model on the roads? Or when you come across an interesting area of research, you start to notice the parallels in other things you do, in different spheres, or even unrelated parts of your work or hobbies?

The comparatively low rates of higher education (HE) progression amongst young men from white, working class backgrounds has received a significant amount of attention in recent years. This has been accompanied by calls for a ‘response’ from the HE sector (Raven, 2022, 644).

Exploring international student experience through induction and disability disclosures The international student experience is replete with challenges spanning academic study and settling into day to day life in the UK. These factors are well known and I won’t break those down fully in this blog (Brown and Holloway, 2008; Arkoudis et al., 2019; Page and

Why Enabling Students from Underrepresented Groups to Develop Widening Participation Research Matters I  “Putting your money where your mouth is” – this is what Jess, a student researcher, said when discussing her experiences with the Social Mobility Student Research Hub (i.e., ‘the Research Hub’) at the University of Warwick last year.  The Research Hub was

Inclusive approaches to student–staff partnership in widening participation I We recently delivered a staff-facing conference under the banner of enabling and supporting student success, with student-staff partnership as a central theme. With a delegation of over 125 academic and professional members of staff, and a conference venue well away from the everyday distractions of work,

The digital divide: Students’ lived experiences of limited digital access I This blog discusses my first research project since graduating from my MA Education in 2021. It aimed to capture the lived experiences of students from widening participation (WP) backgrounds who received digital learning and support grants (DLSG) from their institution to help with their

Most of you reading this blog will work in the groves of academia but what is it like just now in an FE college for a higher education adviser who is concerned about widening participation?

Pioneering the Path: Submitting new Access and Participation Plans to the Office for Students (OfS) as part of the Wave One cohort This year, around forty higher education institutions were part of the wave one cohort to submit updated access and participation plans (APPs) to the Office for Students (OfS). This has been a demanding

Representing the Underrepresented It can be a strange experience working in an HE equity-focused area when you’re from a minoritised background yourself.  Sometimes the lines can blur between being a staff member and being expected to be the voice of any staff or students that happen share a particular minoritised characteristic. Some people who have

Mighty machines: the future role of machine learning to widening access to higher education Across various sectors we have seen fear and enthusiasm in equal measure on the future role machine learning will have on the society. A current example, is the Writers Guild of America strike where one of the concerns included the potential