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8 October 2021

Launch of New Interdisciplinary Higher Education Research and Practice Cluster

Against the backdrop of a challenging Higher Education environment, where issues have been compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic, over 40 colleagues from across the University met for the launch of the new Interdisciplinary Higher Education Research and Practice Cluster (or HEC for short!).

Announcement Research

7 October 2021

New SETL/STEER Course Evaluation Bursary Projects Announced

SETL/STEER are delighted to announce that they will be funding a total of nine projects this academic year across all three Colleges of Business, Technology and Engineering, Social Sciences and Arts, and Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences. Both the team and the panel were pleased to see such a variety of initiatives around key themes including the degree awarding gap, HE-industry partnerships, employability and careers development, digital teaching and learning platforms, and apprenticeships

Announcement Evaluation

23 September 2021

Calling all students! Student researcher recruitment

The Directorate of Student Experience, Teaching and Learning (SETL), incorporating Student Engagement, Evaluation and Research (STEER), are looking for Sheffield Hallam students to work flexibly on a number of research and student engagement projects. Please read this blog post for more information about the roles and how to apply.

Announcement

24 June 2021

Call for Proposals: Evaluation Bursaries 2021-2022

The Directorate of Student Experience, Teaching and Learning (SETL), incorporating Student Engagement, Evaluation and Research (STEER), are delighted to share with you this call for proposals for Evaluation Bursaries (aligned to the Course Improvement Plan) 2021-2022.

Announcement Evaluation

12 March 2021

NERUPI: Exploring evaluation and widening participation beyond Hallam

STEER supports the development of evaluation practices across access, success and progress areas of the student experience at Hallam. We also have an external profile and are connected to a number of sector organisations. Colleagues may be interested in the work of NERUPI. We regularly attend and present at group meetings and events, some of which may be...

Announcement Evaluation

14 January 2021

Inequities in students’ experiences of transitioning to a blended learning environment

This blog is written by Dr Jill Dickinson, Anna Fletcher and Teri-Lisa Griffiths who work in the Departments of Law and Criminology and Student Experience, Teaching and Learning Team. The team are involved in a research project around staff and students’ transitions to the new blended teaching and learning environment within Higher Education. In this blog, they consider some of the issues around students keeping their cameras off during online teaching sessions, the potential rationale behind that, and the challenges it can present, and make a call for specific research to explore this ongoing debate in detail.

12 January 2021

Building an Evaluative Mindset at Hallam #5: Evaluation Implementation

This is a fifth blog post, in a series contextualising the various sections of the Office for Students’ Evaluation Framework, which focuses on the implementation of the evaluation. The post explores evaluation planning, data collection and the appropriateness of data collection mechanisms, ethical practice and resourcing.

Blog Series Evaluation

19 October 2020

Triangulating Evaluative Data Sources: What’s the point?

Since the first Covid19 lockdown in March 2020 evidence gathering has focused on the impact of institutional decision making and understanding the experiences of staff and students. Unfortunately, there has been little time to construct a participatory approach to evaluation and competing priorities have limited stakeholder engagement in data collection and analysis. As David Parson (2017) noted – evaluation should be proportionate to needs, circumstances and resources, and designed with regard to both technical choices and political context – so the evaluation of our teaching and learning response during the Covid19 pandemic pragmatically utilised data triangulation as a guiding principle in our reporting.

10 August 2020

Insights into Student Experiences of Covid19

This blog has been written by Ruvimbo Machaka, Student Researcher and PhD student (Health and Wellbeing) who has been working with STEER to review key literature discussing the response to Covid19 in higher education.

13 May 2020

Building an Evaluative Mindset at Hallam #4: Evaluation Design

At this stage, evaluators should have agreed the purpose of the evaluation and demonstrated what they are trying to achieve and how the initiative will address the issue. This fourth blog post focuses on the design of the evaluation, which relates to the credibility and reliability of evidence of impact. The blog post will explore five key steps for effective evaluation research...

Blog Series Evaluation