PRaES members Alana James, Rachel Pye and Paul Jenkins have won British Psychological Society funding to run a series of seminars on “Students’ Wellbeing at the Centre of their Academic Journey: Translating pedagogic research into practice”. This is a collaboration with academics at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Warwick. Across 2025 each institution will host a seminar on a different theme related to student wellbeing.
The first will be in June and run by Beatrice Hayes, Natasha Baxter and Sahana Shankar in the THESIS group (– T H E S I S) at Royal Holloway, on “‘For Students, By Students’: Translating pedagogic research into co-produced student initiatives to benefit student wellbeing”. The second will be in the summer and run by Pip Brown and Luke Hodson in Psychology at the University of Warwick, on “Designing curriculum with a difference: Utilising research to design engaging and thought-provoking curriculum and assessment”. The final seminar will be in September at the University of Reading with Alana, Rachel, Paul and other PRaES members, on “‘Evidence-informed Support Services’: Use of research to investigate and enhance the effectiveness of university support services.”