1. Student Engagement at the University of Exeter Charlie Leyland, Student Engagement Manager University of Exeter Students’ Guild, & Academic Policy and Standards

2. Plan Student Engagement foundations, manifestations and successes Students as Change Agents Plans for the future

3. Student Engagement: Strong Foundations Sophisticated early model of student engagement (SSLCs, involvement on key committees) Strong long-standing partnership with Students’ Guild High rates of student representation (e.g. Guild elections) Long history of community action, volunteering and participation

4. Student Engagement: Foundations How? Governance structures Feedback surveys You said we did ‘Service-based’ quality assurance and enhancement opportunities

6. Student Engagement: Manifestations Reason for applying to study at Exeter Teaching Awards (and its evolution) FRUNI Grand Challenges The Forum Budget Scrutiny Group Joint role (Student Engagement Manager) between Students’ Union & University Plans to develop students’ role in Quality Review Students as Change Agents

7. Student Engagement: A success story QAA Institutional Review (Commended) National Union of Students ‘HE Student Union of the Year’ The Sunday Times ‘University of the Year’ 2013 International publications on Change Agents National recognition for Community Care-homes project National recognition for Virtual Law firms initiative Sector recognition of quality of Exeter Student Experience Government recognition (e.g. Labour Government HE Framework) Attracts external funding (e.g. HE Academy)

8. Student Engagement: A success story

9. Student Engagement: Our model 1.Learning 2.Quality Assurance and Enhancement 3.The Academic Community 4.Extra-curricular activities

10. Student Engagement at the University of Exeter How else? Support students to spot opportunities and to research, propose and make changes themselves Expected/ing and enabled to be true partners in their University experience

11. Students as Change Agents SimpleSimple: Students have an idea Do some research Come up with solutions Implement recommendations Showcase & benefit

12. Projects this year Amongst the 50-60 or so project initiations this year, the most popular areas have been around: Mentoring schemes Employability Assessment Links with the teaching and research community Module choice

13. Project: Student Engagement in Lectures Technology-enhanced learning Student use of Lecture Capture; Turning Point ‘clickers’; SMS in Lectures Findings for ‘clickers’ - Student/Lecturer interaction improved - Allows Peer comparison - Promotes discussion - International engagement improved - Increases student concentration Recommended that increased use of these technologies

14. Real Change! 4,000 audience response handsets were issued across undergraduate and masters students (2009-10). This has continued for all first year students.

15. Prezi http://prezi.com/rljuyz_sn8iw/change-agents- university-of-exeter/http://prezi.com/rljuyz_sn8iw/change-agents- university-of-exeter/ ELE http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2930&topic= 0#section-10 or ELE ► All courses ► University Resources ► Students as Change Agents http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2930&topic= 0#section-10 Webpage – www.exeter.ac.uk/changeagentswww.exeter.ac.uk/changeagents Twitter – http://twitter.com/ : UoEChangeAgents http://twitter.com/ Blogs - http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/studentprojects/http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/studentprojects/ More information

16. Top tips for ‘Change Agents’ 1.Work on the aforementioned foundations to lead and embed culture of student partnership across insitution 2.Start with a small number of projects that are manageable 3.Maintain a constantly positive stance 4.Agree roles, responsibilities and working arrangements with students 5.Have high expectations of the students but always be available in the background Adapted from: HEA/ESCalate publication: Dunne,E. & Zandstra, R. (2011) Students as change agents, new ways of engaging with learning and teaching in Higher Education

17. Top tips for ‘Change Agents’ 5. Keep in contact with students throughout a project 6.On occasion, students may need support in finding strategies to work in ways that are not seen as intrusive or threatening 7.Be sensitive to different perspectives and get buy-in to ensure change is taken on board. 8.Make sure that positive outcomes are shared with appropriate parties Adapted from: HEA/ESCalate publication: Dunne,E. & Zandstra, R. (2011) Students as change agents, new ways of engaging with learning and teaching in Higher Education

18. Thank you! Time for Questions If you have any ideas, more questions or would like more information please contact Charlie - C.leyland@exeter.ac.uk