Student Engagement Conference 2022: Meaningful, Active Participation

Student engagement has never been more important or more challenging. This conference will provide an opportunity for the sector to come together to review where we’ve been and to consider where next. It will focus on the engagement of students in all aspects of their higher education, from the ‘classroom’ to extra-curricular activities including leadership and governance; asking what does it mean to lead student engagement, and how can we continue to improve our vision of student engagement? The conference will consider leadership of student engagement through a 360 degree lens including the role of all staff, the Student Union, and the community as well as considering how we ensure inclusive engagement and remove all inequalities.

This conference will be of interest to those with responsibility for the student academic experience and student engagement more widely, SU teams wishing to widen their student engagement, course leaders seeking to have a more engaged cohort and others focused on the student experience and improving student outcomes.

Join the conversation #StudentEngagementConf22

Date: 12 May 2022

Location: Virtual

Who: Those with responsibility for the student academic experience and student engagement more widely, SU teams, course leaders and those focused on the student experience and improving student outcomes.

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Keynote speaker

Kathleen Quinlan

Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education
,
University of Kent

She is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK. Since 1996, she has held academic and leadership positions in world-leading universities in England, the US, and Australia.

Connecting engagement with student success

Dr Alexis Brown

Director of Policy and Advocacy
,
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI)

Alexis Brown is Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI). Previously, she worked at the Russell Group and UCL, and holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Oxford.

Will Mbioh

Director of Student Attainment and Inclusion
,
University of Kent

I am a lecturer in law at the Kent Law School at the University of Kent. I am the Director of Student Attainment and Inclusion at the School and the Academic Lead and programme director for the School’s largest intervention to reduce the final awarding gap between BAME and non-BAME students, involving about 17 academic colleagues: Academic Coaching for Academic Excellence Programme (ACE). In addition, I’m the University’s Academic Lead for its Race Equality Charter Application and member of Solicitor Regulatory Authority’s External Reference group for its independent research into the attainment gap for BAME candidates in professional assessments.

Tamara Reid

Inclusive Curriculum Consultant Programme Lead
,
Kingston University

Tamara Reid is Inclusive Curriculum Consultant Programme Lead at Kingston University, where she supports the development of an inclusive curriculum through student-staff partnership.

Dan Tinkler

Governance Development Manager
,
Advance HE

Dan joined Advance HE in January 2020 and has been in the post of Governance Development Manager since October 2021. Dan works on developing our approach to supporting Advance HE’s member needs across our governance portfolio of work.

Callum Perry

Undergraduate Education Officer
,
University of East Anglia

Callum Perry was the Undergraduate Education Officer at uea(su) from 2019-2021, supporting learning and teaching design, course representation and student voice, inclusivity, and academic spaces.

Fanni Zombor

Students Association Vice President
,
The Open University

Fanni is Vice President Engagement at the OU Students Association. Her main responsibilities are around overseeing the Association's communications strategy, and working with the university and Association staff teams around ensuring the student voice is an integral part of all decision making in the organisations.

Dan Chevalier

Vice President, Education and Welfare, University of Winchester Students' Union

Dan is a Winchester University graduate who studied Politics and Global Studies – coming to University from Poole area where he came straight from Sixth form (studying Science based A-levels). He began engaging with the SU beyond their events in his final year and will shortly be moving into his second term in office as Vice President, Education and Welfare.

Chair

Ian Nickson

Regional Sales Director for Europe and Africa, Explorance

Ian is the Regional Sales Director for Europe and Africa at Explorance. He has spent 16 years supporting universities all over the world from South America to the Far East. Supplying student voice and experience technologies. Ian joined Explorance in 2020 to increase growth across the region.

Shaun Stephenson-McGall

Student Engagement Manager, Centre for Learning and Teaching

Shaun’s current role at the University of Bath is as the Student Engagement Manager within the Centre for Learning and Teaching.

Savvina Kritharidou

Vice President Education
,
University of Strathclyde

Savvina Kritharidou is the Vice President Education at the University of Strathclyde Students Union for 2021-2022. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Strathclyde and has previously been a class rep and a faculty rep. As part of her current role she receives feedback from students and student reps and communicates with the university to both solve any issues and share new ideas and projects. She is part of numerous university committees which focus on students' learning experience and enhancement.

Bethan Foweraker

Student Voice and Engagement Lead

I joined the Quality Enhancement Directorate in July 2019 as the Student Voice and Engagement Lead. My career to date has had a focus on Student Voice and Engagement, which started when I was elected as Vice President Education at Aberystwyth University Students’ Union in 2010.

Bo Kelestyn

Senior Teaching Fellow
,
University of Warwick

Dr Bo Kelestyn is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and Innovation Consultant at Sprint Valley. As one of Warwick’s lead experts on design thinking, she holds an extensive portfolio of design thinking and innovation modules.