Helping care-experienced students develop a sense of belonging
By Jack Mollart-Solity, Widening Participation Manager*| Making friends is a key part of developing a sense of belonging at university, which then impacts motivation to — [Read More]
Ethnicity and Disadvantage: Not Two Sides of The Same Coin
By Chiamaka Nwosu, Data and Research Analyst | Are universities relying on inadequate data to understand the progression and success of students from ethnic minority backgrounds? — [Read More]
Can Nudge Plus help us encourage sustainable pro-social behaviour change?
By Sanchayan Banerjee, PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science * | Nudges are low-cost, high-impact behavioural strategies that encourage people to — [Read More]
Why social capital and belonging are interlinked – the importance of cultural capital
By Vanessa Todman, Head of What Works | Vanessa Todman argues that in understanding sense of belonging and social capital of university students we need — [Read More]
So where do we go from here?
By Michael Bennett, Associate Director for Widening Participation | With our report on our findings from our first two years published, Michael Bennett reflects on — [Read More]
Reaching out to Kent: listening to the community and designing a new programme
By Ali Glossop, On Purpose Associate in the Widening Participation Team| Where you live is a contributing factor to how likely you will be to — [Read More]
Why you should read ‘The Book of Why’?
By Nadia Chechlińska, Research Associate| We all know ‘correlation does not imply causation’ – but how do we imply causation? In the second of her — [Read More]
We need to think carefully about how we are using evidence during lockdown
Vanessa Todman, Head of Student Experience Research | When approached about how to run social research during lockdown, often our advice is ‘don’t do it’. — [Read More]
Integrating experimental design into everyday practice
By Salome Gongadze, Research Associate| Here at What Works, we never miss an opportunity to insert a little behavioural insights experimentation into the rest of — [Read More]
Are We Still Thinking Fast and Slow? – Review
By Nadia Chechlińska, Research Associate| Nadia explains how, almost a decade on, ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ is still an important text for higher education staff — [Read More]