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STIR: Socialisation to Improve Retention
Overview• Background
• Activities:• Meet Your Studies Advisor• Team Building in Sports Hall• Night out with David Meade
• Feedback
• Dissemination
• Future Plans
Background
• IN-TUNE project: CHEP funded in 2009-10
• Researcher integrated with students in first semester
• One finding: not easy to get to know others on the same course
• Sense of belonging
Meet Your Studies Advisor
• The Studies Advice process• Issues• Event – week 1 in Sports Hall• Questionnaire – 58% response• “Useful because my Studies Advisor gave me advice and checked up on how I was
doing”.• “Useful to voice opinions and concerns about the course”. • “I was able to tell my Studies Advisor how I felt and how I was getting on. She
made me feel reassured to talk to her about problems”. • “Not useful. Told things I already knew”.• “Waste of time. I had no problems”.
Team Building
• Sessions facilitated by Sports Centre staff• Participation and timing issues• Feedback:• “I believe it helped me to get to know others and become friends”.• “I got to know who was in my course and got talking to some of them”.• “It was a bit of craic and made me relaxed with people I didn’t know”.• “It was a great way to meet other people doing the same course and have fun”
• Meeting others:• “I met my friends during a group practical and have stayed friends since” • “Through tutorial groups and group work in class”.
Evening Out
Evening Out
Evening Out Feedback
• Disappointing attendance• Timing• Comments:• “It was a great night out. It was something new which we wouldn’t have had the
opportunity to do otherwise”.• “I did enjoy the evening; I found it very entertaining and a real good laugh. I got to
laugh and joke with new people”.• “It was epic. I reckon people were raging they didn’t go. He is so hilarious. Every
person there definitely enjoyed it, without a doubt”.
Future Plans
• Continue and extend Meet Your Studies Advisor
• Team Building only in week 1 (if possible)• Evening out in semester 1 rather than
semester 2• Review modules to include more group work
in class (not necessarily assessed)
Dissemination
• HEA Workshop: 10th March 2011, London, Southbank University
• HEA 12th annual ICS conference, Belfast, August 23-25 2011
