My Projects
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Enhanced Practical Learning Opportunities:
As Vice President of Education, I worked with the Vice President of Activities to improve practical learning and employability across LSBU. We consulted more than 120 course representatives to understand the types of industry experiences students needed, including trips, guest speakers, and tailored career events. We presented our findings to senior university executives and the Career Hub, and this project directly contributed to amendments made to the LSBU Career Hub strategy to better support industry-focused opportunities for students.
Enhancing Student Engagement Through Weekly Low-Stakes Quizzing:
As Vice President of Education, I co-authored this project with Josh Sharman, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, to explore how weekly low-stakes quizzing can strengthen student engagement and improve learning outcomes at LSBU. The idea focuses on using short, ungraded quizzes to help students revisit course material regularly, build confidence, and reduce last-minute exam stress. This approach supports deeper understanding through retrieval practice and spaced learning, both of which are shown to improve long-term retention.
Low-stakes quizzing also gives students immediate feedback and allows academics to identify areas where further support may be needed. By introducing a quick quiz at the end of each teaching week, lecturers can create a more responsive learning environment where students stay actively engaged with their studies.
We presented this proposal to the Associate Dean Group (ADG), where it was very well received. The group agreed to encourage academics to begin using this approach, with plans for gradual adoption across schools. The aim is for weekly low-stakes quizzing to become a standard part of the learning design, helping students build knowledge more consistently throughout their course.
Personal Tutor Support Campaign:
As Vice President of Education, I led a targeted campaign to promote the importance of personal tutor support, aiming to enhance student learning, personal growth, and students’ sense of connection at LSBU. Personal tutors play a key role in guiding students through their academic journey, offering advice and helping them reach their full potential. The campaign was designed to raise awareness of this support and ensure students knew where to turn for help.
I delivered more than 20 lecture shoutouts across Level 4 courses in the ENG, BUS, APS, and IHSC schools, directly engaging students and highlighting the value of personal tutor support. Alongside this, I worked with the LSBU content team to produce five video interviews featuring three students and two personal tutors. These videos were shared on social media and helped present personal tutor support in a more relatable and accessible way.
To reinforce the message, I sent encouragement messages to students through LSBU and Students’ Union newsletters in October, November, and December. I also wrote a blog post titled “How Personal Tutor Support Can Transform Your University Journey”, which was published on the Students’ Union website.
Through a combination of in-person engagement, digital content, and written communication, this campaign reached more than 7,000 LSBU students, helping strengthen awareness of personal tutor support and encouraging students to make better use of the guidance available to them.
Improving Organisational Management Through the Student Voice Tracker
As Vice President of Education, one of my key priorities was strengthening organisational management and responsiveness to student feedback at LSBU. I worked closely with university executives and internal stakeholders to improve engagement with the Student Voice Tracker, a system used to record, monitor, and respond to student feedback across the university.
Through regular meetings with university stakeholders, I identified delays, addressed operational challenges, and followed up on outstanding actions to ensure issues were resolved efficiently. Where responses were taking longer than expected, I escalated matters to senior executives to maintain momentum and accountability. This proactive approach helped create clearer ownership and faster decision-making across academic and professional services teams.
As a result of this work, I achieved 100% responsiveness on the Student Voice Tracker at LSBU. This improvement played an important role in supporting better organisational management and created a stronger foundation for future enhancements to the National Student Survey (NSS). The project helped ensure student feedback was taken seriously, acted upon consistently, and embedded more effectively within university processes.
Improving Placement Support for Nursing & Allied Health Students:
While serving as Vice President of Education, I analysed National Student Survey (NSS) data and identified low satisfaction among Nursing and Allied & Community Health students regarding placement support, particularly around communication and access to information. To better understand these issues, I engaged directly with students through more than 25 lecture shout-outs across relevant programmes, gathering feedback on the challenges they faced during placements and the support they felt was missing. Based on this insight, I developed a Placement Handbook / Placement Top Tips document designed to provide clear, accessible, and practical guidance that students could easily carry and refer to while on placement. Before the end of my term, the draft handbook was submitted to academic staff and is currently under review, with plans for publication to improve placement experience and communication for future student cohorts.
