creating a safe environment for disparity in attainment research to take place. mr pliny...
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Creating a Safe Environment for Disparity in Attainment Research to Take Place.
Mr Pliny SoocoormaneeDr Arinola AdefilaDr Debra CuretonMrs Jaswinder Sekhon
Outline
• Brief Research Overview
• Ethical Considerations
• Creating a Safe Research Environment
• Methodology
• Tools for Data Collection
• Evaluation of Methodology
Tools for Data Collection
Research Stream 1: Institutional data
Identifying modules with no disparity – highlighting good practice
Research Stream 2: Student data
What students say help or impede their achievement
Research Stream 4: Dissemination
How to get a Good Degree Guide, Methodologies & Frameworks
Research Stream 3: Action research with staff
Evaluation of interventions identified by staff to eradicate the gap
Exercise• Work in small groups and discuss:
– Should we tell the students about the attainment gap at the point of recruitment?
– Should we recruit white students in research that looks at why less BME students attain a ‘good degree’?
– Should we recruit university wide or only from modules where changes are being implemented?
Ethical Considerations
Do NO Harm
Students
Students Lecturers
Institutions
When to inform BME
students about the attainment
gap
Is it ethical not to include
white students?
How to ethically
investigate bad practice?
Is it ethical to engage
students in solution
finding who wont
experience the benefits
of the change?
How to ensure no
harm is done to the
institutions involved?
Creating a Safe Research Environment
• The research methodology aims to:– actively empower the students’ voice– educate the students about the issue– be a safe space for students to be comfortable
to disclose in– be egalitarian– be engaging
Methodology
Research Tools
Revising with
friends –
study groups
Library is always
Noisy!
Evaluation of Methodology
CORA Useful
Sense of Community
Empowered students
Contact Details• Dr Debra Cureton – Project Manager
University of Wolverhampton [email protected]
• Dr Arinola Adefila – Project Manager Coventry University [email protected]
• Mr Pliny Soocoormanee – Project Worker University of Wolverhampton [email protected]