You might work in outreach into local schools and colleges, in recruitment, in admissions, in student services, in student health and wellbeing, in student finance, or in careers advice. You might work specifically with disabled students or students from disadvantaged backgrounds and / or groups under-represented in UK education or from certain ethnic backgrounds. Your role will have some focus on building a fairer, better-accessed HE, with the widest participation, student engagement, retention and graduate and post-graduate outcomes.
But what is the only structural activity on campus that gives all students continuing, one-to-one interaction with a concerned representative of the institution? The answer is Personal Tutoring. The utility and value of such a role has not always been properly recognised or realised in UK institutions in the context of widening participation – particularly with regard to fostering student engagement, facilitating retention, helping ensure students get the most from their learning and a properly considered and successful progression from their study.