Let me tell you a story. It’s a fairly innocuous story, but at the time it struck me. It requires some patience, and a little bit of background about the University of Nottingham. Nottingham is a multi-campus university: we have several campuses across Nottingham, some presence in China and Malaysia, and some healthcare presence in […]
Understanding Everyday Narratives Robin Hughes, Education Policy Adviser, Lancaster SU (r.hughes3@lancaster.ac.uk) A session I’ll mention was one on Analysing Everyday Digital Narratives, a part of the NOVELLA project (Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches). The approaches that were taken in this project were specifically focussed around how narratives of “good” parenting affected parenting […]
Democratising Research – agency or ideology? Alan Roberts, Policy Development Manager, NUS Alan.roberts@nus.org.uk One of the questions in our minds at the event centred on democratising research. In students’ unions there was a historical tendency to frame the democratic and policy processes as the way to “find out” what students wanted, and these now sit […]
In early July a crack team of Student Movement staff attended the National Centre for Research Methods’ annual festival. All this week we’ll be carrying reflective articles on research in Students’ Unions from the team that attended. Researching student living: mining the social networks: Sam Nichols, Education Researcher, Nottingham SU (samuel.nichols@nottingham.ac.uk) In this piece I want […]
In early July a crack team of Student Movement staff attended the National Centre for Research Methods’ annual festival. All this week we’ll be carrying reflective articles on research in Students’ Unions from the team that attended. A Day in the Life: Alan Roberts, Policy Development Manager, NUS For the first in this series I’d […]
We’ll regularly post research, articles and papers of significant background interest to managers in Students’ Unions. The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) annual student debt survey suggests some startling differences of opinion between students and parents. Whether it’s where to live, where to study, whether university is actually worth it, expected levels of debt or […]