Academic involvement in Outreach: Best practice case studies from health and languages

Harris, Patricia and Ridealgh, Kim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1051-2339 (2016) Academic involvement in Outreach: Best practice case studies from health and languages. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 18 (3). pp. 74-83. ISSN 2045-2713

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Abstract

This paper will examine the role academic colleagues can play in the Widening Participation process (predominately outreach), by providing examples of innovative practice from the University of East Anglia. At the University of East Anglia a unique academic post is held in each Faculty to ensure that Widening Participation students are supported throughout their time at university and that subject-specific outreach sessions can utilise world-leading research to raise aspirations. This paper will highlight examples from Modern Foreign Languages and Health Sciences to demonstrate how academics can help raise aspirations and support long-term intervention projects. Norfolk is both a rural and costal county and faces difficult challenges in raising aspirations as some areas of the county have a progression rate to HE as low as 8%. Thus, by creating a dynamic range of activities in collaboration with academic colleagues, a breadth of targeted activities can be delivered, activities that also benefit current UG students, academics, and support the reputation of the university itself.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2016 00:55
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2024 01:23
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60299
DOI:	10.5456/WPLL.18.3.74

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