Our seven Intervention Strategies

1. UNI Club: A subject-focused, 8-week attainment and skills program enhancing research and personal skills for pupils.
2. Reading Warriors: Literacy program for primary and secondary schools to raise attainment and improve reading confidence.
3. National Saturday Club: Collaboration with the British Film Institute to develop a Film and Screen Club enhancing subject knowledge and confidence.
4. Lego Coding Club: Skills development program in collaboration with Cummins Engineering to enhance coding skills and employability knowledge.
5. Revision Boost: Partnership-based GCSE maths intervention to improve male students’ grades.
6. Primary SPARK Award: Social impact skills development program for primary school pupils.
7. Primary School Oracy Program: Enhanced oracy and debating skills program for primary pupils.
8. Widening Access Workshops*: Training workshops for staff on designing and delivering Widening Access programs.
9. Primary Law Taskmaster*: Knowledge development workshops in collaboration with Warwick University to introduce primary pupils to law concepts.
10. Drama in Action: Professional development program fostering attainment and skills through the arts.
11. Project Party: Project management skills program for pupils.

1. Living Room Lectures: Annual webinar program to support an improved understanding of Higher Education.
2. Annual EDI Review: Inclusive review of event communications, web content, and student experience.
3. First Generation Workshops*: Workshops targeted at students who are the first in their family to attend university.
4. Taster Day Review: Inclusive and accessible review of pre-event communications and booking processes for university taster days.
5. School CPD*: Teacher professional development networks supporting pupil attainment and skill development.
6. Care Leavers Program*: Tailored programs supporting care leavers, including employability workshops and mentoring.

1. Tackling Futures*: Key Stage 3 boys-focused project to develop self-efficacy and study practices.
2. Primary Ignite Your Future*: Insight sessions to explore progression to Higher Education and potential careers.
3. Black Leaders Program*: Workshops exploring community, identity, and leadership to foster a sense of belonging.
4. Representative Student Ambassador Program*: Recruitment of ambassadors reflecting the diversity of the university’s population.

1. Integrated Foundation Year Enhancement*: Collaborative activity to improve continuation and belonging for foundation year students.
2. Timetabling Optimisation: Responsive timetabling to better accommodate diverse student demographics.
3. Personal Academic Tutor (PAT) Steering Group*: Management and evolution of the PAT model to enhance support.
4. Universal Design for Learning: Optimising teaching and learning based on insights into human learning.
5. Targeted Mentoring*: Peer and professional mentoring opportunities for APP target cohorts.
6. APP Advocates and Ambassadors Programmes: Our Advocates programme supports staff to understand and apply the APP in their role. Our Ambassador programme funds staff-time to research or deliver a micro-intervention that enhances our learning of what works in APP at UON.
7. Robust Communications Plan: Development of a clear communications plan, that engages all stakeholders impacted by this APP.

1. Student Voice Strategy*: Embedding student voice into university strategy and decision-making practices.
2. Trust Guidelines: Implementing trust as a core tenet in staff-student interactions.
3. Student Career Coaches: Peer-led career development framework targeting APP cohorts.
4. Care Leavers Employability Support*: Bespoke employability and job placement support for care leavers.
5. Career Registration Survey: Tracking student career intentions and progression.
6. Student Ambassador Programme Evaluation*: A collaboration with University of Bedfordshire to evaluate our Student Ambassador programme.
7. Financial Support Package*: Targeted funds to support all our APP target cohorts at each stage of their student lifecycle.

1. Mental Health Charter Status: Embedding a whole-provider approach to mental health and wellbeing.
2. Transition Support: Support for students transitioning into university to improve mental health and wellbeing.
3. Suicide Safer Framework: Operationalising a proactive approach to suicide prevention and postvention.
4. Learnings from Manspace: Incorporating findings from “Manspace” to tailor mental health services.

Evaluation:

This evaluation will be co-designed with APP stakeholders, Activity Leaders, and Institute for Social Impact and Innovation as part of an all-encompassing evaluation of the Mental Health interventions. Due to considerations of privacy dissemination will be limited to the APP Steering Group and publication of the Mental Health Charter Status.

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1. APP Integration into IT Strategy*: Ensuring APP priorities are central in IT governance and decision-making.
2. Data Governance Working Group*: Supporting effective data collection, analysis, and usage to improve student outcomes.
3. SITS Implementation*: Rolling out a new student records system to streamline data and support processes.
4. Value Added Platform*: Benchmarking program outcomes against sector averages for quality enhancement.

Evaluation:

This intervention will be evaluated as part of an all-encompassing evaluation of the University-wide Digital and Data Strategy by our IT Strategy Board in partnership with of our Institute for Social Impact and Innovation. The evaluation will be co-designed to ensure it meets the needs of the APP whilst ensuring that institutional data governance is appropriate. Results will be published across a range of platforms, including our own webpages, external repositories, or even a conference!

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