WP/Diversity Capacity Building Workshops Do you want to: § improve your research skills? § learn to use data effectively? § make informed decisions about research questions and methods? If so, you might like to attend a WORKSHOP on widening participation research. The Higher Education Academy and Action on Access are running a series of workshops to enhance capacity in the HE sector to undertake research with a widening participation focus. The workshops will form part of the Academy's Widening Participation Research Service and will assist the development of evidence-based practice as diversity and widening participation becomes increasingly important to HE institutions' mission and strategy. Further details are available at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/List_4973.htm The price per participant will be £50 payable to the Higher Education Academy. The workshops will be held in LONDON - Friends House, Euston Road. 20/02/07 BIRMINGHAM - Lakeside Centre, Aston Business School. 26/04/07 YORK - Higher Education Academy, York. 12/06/07 A draft programme is shown below 10.00 Registration & coffee 10.30 Introduction 10.40 Over to you: a paired discussion to identify potential research issues 11.10 Workplace research - why we should do it? a short talk 11.20 Session one: different data - different stories to tell, the strengths and weaknesses of different information 12.15 Session two: asking the question - possible research questions 13.00 Lunch 13.45 Session three: interpreting data 14.30 Tea 14.45 Session four: disseminating findings 15.30 Making use of the Academy's Widening Participation Research Service 16.00 Close