Dr Louise Gazeley and Dr Sarah Aynsley
Title: 'The contribution of pre-entry interventions to student retention and success'
An HEA funded literature review for Education research centre CIRCLETS. One of seven syntheses drawing on the Widening Access, Student Retention and Success (WASRS) National Programme Archive. The review will run from May-July 2012 with dissemination planned for autumn 2012.
Dr Sarah Aynsley
Title: 'Making Choices: an investigation into the factors which affect young peoples' decisions not to progress to Higher education after following a vocational pathway in upper secondary education'
A research project funded by the British Academy Small Research Grant.
Sarah Aynsley is the Principal Investigator and Barbara Crossouard is the Researcher.
Dr Barbara Crossouard
Title: 'An exploration of the career trajectories of newly qualified researchers'
A research project funded by the Society for Research into Higher Education (2008-2009).
The career trajectories of newly qualified researchers has become a priority issue in policy agendas in many parts of the world, including the US, the EU and the UK. The study uses a mixed method approach, including an online questionnaire and interviews with a range of respondents from different disciplines, to explore potential equity issues associated with these developments.
Professor Mairead Dunne
Title: 'Motivations and Experience of UK Students to Study Abroad'
DIUS funded project with other Sussex academics Professor Russell King and Professor Ron Skeldon from the Centre for Migration Studies and the Geography Department and a research team from the University of Dundee in Scotland including Professor Allan Findlay, Dr Fiona Smith and Dr Alistair Geddes. The project ran from January 2008 - July 2009.
Professor Valerie Hey, Dr Mairead Dunne and Dr Sarah Aynsley
Title: 'Applied research into the experience of black and minority ethnic staff working in higher education'
A research project funded by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) and submitted by the Centre for Higher Education Resarch and Information (CHERI), the Open University, and the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER), University of Sussex. It runs from December 2009 - January 2011. The aim of the project is to improve the experiences of black and minority ethnic staff in higher education through examining institutional practices and the experience of black and minority ethnic staff in three thematic areas: management practice, support frameworks and relationships, and leadership and development.
The Final Report for this project is downloadable here.
Professor Louise Morley
Title: 'Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania:Impact, Influence and Innovation'.
A research project funded by ESRC, July- December 2010
This follow on project will consolidate, deepen and intensify a research partnership established over the past three years between Ghana, Tanzania and the UK. It will involve inputs from colleagues in research and policy fields in Ghana and Tanzania, as well as from those working in international education more generally.
The aim is to generate impact via three Knowledge Exchange and Impact Enhancement Seminars (Ghana, Tanzania and UK). This will include verifying and exchanging knowledge developed in the course of the existing project with policymakers, universities and community organisations, with a view to achieving significant policy impact.
Title: 'Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: Developing an Equity Scorecard' - ESRC-DFID 2006-2010
This 3 year project investigated interventions for widening participation in one public university and one private university in Ghana and Tanzania. Taking widening participation as a focus, the overall aim was to interrogate what universities are doing in relation to poverty reduction and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Title: 'Needs of employers and related organizations for information about the quality and standards of Higher Education provision' - Higher Education Funding Council for England -2006.
Dr John Pryor
Title: 'East, West & South: Professional identity and international development through an Anglo-Japanese lens'
A research project funded by the Sasakawa Foundation and based within the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) and the Centre for International Education (CIE) at the University of Sussex. Dr John Pryor and Dr Mariko Shiohata, Research Fellow are investigating the experience of Japanese students specializing in the study of international development in British universities. From the CHEER perspective, East West & South is concerned with the subjects' current construction of identities as overseas students within UK higher education. It is seeking to draw conclusions about the way that Japanese students' needs might be better met.
Title: Internet-based Assessment in Higher Education - European Union -2002 - 2005.