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WP/Diversity Capacity Building
Workshops
Do you want to:
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improve your research
skills?
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learn to use data
effectively?
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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
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
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