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Explore our Member Benefit Projects

This page contains links to Advance HE's Member Benefit Projects.

As Higher Education providers, Advance HE members face many similar challenges – irrespective of where they are in the world.

In response to their feedback, our experts develop packages of learning and support designed to help them tackle issues ranging from student outcomes, engagement and retention to navigating the impact of artificial intelligence.

This bank of resources is being expanded and developed all the time, so why not bookmark this page so you can refer to it quickly, and easily?

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Teaching and Learning

Discover our Member Benefit projects that sit within the Teaching and Learning theme below.

Generative AI: Beyond Assessment

This member benefit takes us beyond current debates on AI and assessment to consider in-depth other ways the technology will impact higher education and the communities we serve.
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Student Needs Framework

The Student Needs Framework provides a foundation for considering the re-design of student support services across higher education providers.
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Measuring Educational Gain

These interactive sessions will focus on understanding the concept of education gains, its role in TEF and consider the challenges around implementation and evaluation.
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Education for Sustainable Development

This literature review, by academics at King's College London, brings together and systematically reviews research from between 2015-2022.
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Student Engagement through Partnership

This project synthesises evidence about student engagement through partnership and its demonstrable impacts on students’ outcomes and experiences in higher education.
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International Higher Education - What's next?

This project positions Higher Education Institutions as global leaders whilst looking to the future of international partnerships and education.
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Beyond the Classroom: Supporting Student Outcomes

This project, supported by the Collaborative Development Fund, curates institutional case studies that identify and disseminate new ways of working to show how third-space professionals can be used to positively influence student outcomes.
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Tertiary Education: Navigating Complexity

This project explores the big questions that transcend traditional borders to find the best practices within tertiary education ecosystems around the world.
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Authentic Assessment in the Era of AI

This project explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence tools and the impact they will have on assessment as well as practice and policy in Higher Education.
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Beyond Flexible Learning

This project aims to meet the challenge of providing high-quality and engaging learning experiences whilst leveraging the benefits of online learning.
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Student Outcomes

This project explores how new forms of organisation and collaboration between academic and professional services colleagues can create important but difficult-to-quantify benefits to student outcomes.
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Internationalisation of HE

This project centres around a literature review "Internationalisation and students’ outcomes or experiences."
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Transitions, retention and progress

This project explores the impact of the pandemic on student's confidence, study skills and well-being and supports members in adopting practical approaches to enhance the student experience as well as support retention and progression.
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Utilising the Professional Standards Framework for Strategic Change

This project collates case studies to further understanding how the Professional Standards Framework can be deployed to achieve the strategic transformation to learning and teaching across a Higher Education provider.
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Student Success: Flexible Learning

This project focuses on a literature review conducted by Professor Mark Loon of Northumbria University and explores practical, evidence-based approaches to flexible learning in higher education.
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Student Success Framework Series Review

This project explores aspects of student success, with an emphasis on Access, Retention, Attainment, Progression and Employability.
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College-based HE network

This project, supported by the Collaborative Development Fund, aims to bring together leaders of college-based, tertiary or higher education across the UK in order to share practices and devise solutions to meet their challenges.
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Student Success: Access, retention, attainment and progression

This project explores the key areas of ‘Access, retention, attainment and progression: a review of the literature 2016-2021’ conducted by researchers at Sheffield Hallam University.
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Tertiary Sector Evolution

This project focuses on the evolution within the tertiary education sector with particular emphasis on how this affects Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Student Success: Assessment and Feedback

This project focuses on the literature review 'Impacts of Higher Education Assessment and Feedback Policy and Practice on Students: A Review of the Literature 2016-2021'.
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Engaging learners: Any time? Any place? Anyhow?

This project explores how students’ sense of belonging is developed through socially constructed learning experiences and the challenge remote studying poses to student engagement.
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The Future Student Experience

This project, supported by the Collaborative Development Fund, intends to spark discussion on the direction of Higher Education and the types of experiences that industry leaders want students to have in the future.
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Re-thinking delivery models for quality higher education for all

This project explores key issues of quality, flexibility and accessibility from the perspectives of the HEI and the student.
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Student Partnerships in Assessment

This project aims to support the development of assessment models and best practice within Higher Education Institutions.
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Celebrating success and addressing challenges in assessment

This project is a celebration of ingenuity, resilience and generosity in adapting to changes in teaching, learning, assessment and feedback.
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Leadership

Discover our Member Benefit projects that sit within the Leadership theme below.

Leadership for the Future

This project explores what makes successful leadership in Higher Education Institutions, with particular focus on the required skills, competencies, and approaches to achieve this.
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Identifying, developing and supporting Academic Leadership

Led by Geraldine Harrison, Advance HE Associate in collaboration with Universities HR, this review explores how HEIs can support Academic Leadership.
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The Sustainable Institutions Project: An Evidence Informed Review of Good Practice

This project aims to examine instances of sustainable institutions from around the world to provide an evidence-based review of the most recent best practices for creating a sustainable institution.
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Good Campus Relations and Freedom of Speech

This project is helping members to create inclusive institutions and improve campus relations between different groups, whilst supporting and protecting freedom of speech and academic freedom.
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International Higher Education: What's next?

This project positions Higher Education Institutions as global leaders whilst looking to the future of international partnerships and education.
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Leading change through teams and networks

This project explores the opportunities for and challenges in developing change agency as a core skill for collaborative working within and between teams, groups and networks.
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Organisational wellbeing

This project explores the link between healthy and prosperous universities and the wellbeing of staff and students; how cultures, structures and policies can enable (or prevent) the expression of full human potential, collaboration, creativity and innovation.
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Hybrid Higher - hybrid working and leadership in higher education

This project seeks to share insights into as well as consider how to achieve a purposeful hybrid balance between virtual engagement and in-person collaboration. 
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Exceptional student retention

This project explores the wide-ranging impacts that COVID-19 had on the increased the risk of student non-continuation and what HEIs can do to reverse the trend.
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Sustainability for everyone: here and now

This project addresses key challenges including Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and climate change, and consider how sustainability can be prioritised within Higher Education Institutions.
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The future of the student voice? Policy, principles, practice.

This project explores how Higher Education Institutions value and represent the student's voice and commit to using it to drive positive change.
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Transforming Organisations: from student to board

This project considers how our Higher Education Institutions can bring about authentic strategic and cultural change.
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Governance

Discover our Member Benefit projects that sit within the Governance theme below.

Measuring What Matters

This project explores how higher education governing bodies are currently measuring and articulating performance in order to better evidence the value that they create for all stakeholders.
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The Board's role in ESG and Sustainability Oversight

This project explores how sustainability goals affect governance decision-making and investigates the implications for governing body oversight, roles, responsibilities and skills needed.
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Academic Assaurance

This project, created in collaboration with UUK and GuildHE, aims to convene the sector to understand shared challenges and approaches to academic assaurance.
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Supporting Inclusive Boards

This project offers creative solutions to generating diverse board candidates, from successful recruitment to induction and retention.
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Leading change through teams and networks

This project explores the opportunities for and challenges in developing change agency as a core skill for collaborative working within and between teams, groups and networks.
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Delivering on EDI: the critical governance role

This project explores the critical role that governance plays in fostering representative higher education environments, from board-level to among staff and students.
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Transforming Organisations: from student to board

This project considers how our Higher Education Institutions can bring about authentic strategic and cultural change.
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Discover our Member Benefit projects that sit within the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion theme below.

Exploring a holistic approach to equality, diversity and inclusion

This project explores the potential for a new holistic approach to EDI accreditation, with the chance for everyone to provide their views and shape the next steps.
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Inclusive Institutions: Enabling and supporting culture change

This project seeks to address the barriers that limit access and belonging, with particular attention to removing barriers to marginalised groups.
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Leading change through teams and networks

This project explores the opportunities for and challenges in developing change agency as a core skill for collaborative working within and between teams, groups and networks.
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How has Covid-19 impacted on gender equality in HE?

This project examines the impact of Covid-19 on gender equality in HE and considers the consequences of a slowdown or even regression in progress made in previous decades.
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Delivering on EDI: the critical governance role

This project explores the critical role that governance plays in fostering representative higher education environments, from the board level to among staff and students.
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