Are you a care-experienced university student due to graduate in 2022? Are you based in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 or Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿? I am still looking for more participants for my British Academy project on #CEP graduate transitions 🙂Please see the thread for details 👇

Young people aren't choosing biology or chemistry because they're easier - they're more likely to choose them because young women are told that "women can't do hard science or maths". Perhaps Katharine Birbalsingh would like to stop guessing and read our research: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1009…

We got some great and varied perspectives on the 'business' of WP here, including my bit on the context of enactment for third sector orgs. Take a look! 👇👇👇

Grateful to have had an amazing (and successful!) viva experience today. Thank you to my examiners who were challenging in a way that got me talking about things I've been so invested in for years. And huge thanks to my supervisors Colin McCaig and @JonDeanStuff. Now for cake.

Evaluation and research people - we're hiring! SEER is expanding and we need experienced evaluators to join us in supporting our small and specialist HE members. Get in touch if you'd like to discuss. collaborativehe.com/jobs

ICYMI: The Business of Widening Participation: Policy, Practice and Culture edited by Colin McCaig Dr Jon Rainford and myself came out on Monday. It's a great collection of authors (if I do say so myself!) Sample chapter in the link. books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/th…

We are planning future editions of our E-bulletin. We want to hear from anyone who has an idea for an article or a blog. We also want to feature as many new practitioners and researchers in the #wideningparticipation space as possible. Please pm if to make a #contribution

Seminar reg now live! Our seminar series for African Caribbean postgraduate research students is back 💫Online & open to any UK student at both Masters and PhD level. 💫The 1st Thursday of every month lead by Dr William Ackah 💫Peer & academic support buff.ly/3RRpb5L

Really excited for the great discussions I'm sure will come out of this event. WP practitioners, students and anyone interested in HE policy and practice - please take a look and join us. It's a great line up and in my new home city!

Quick book recc: making my way through the exercises in this book by Helen Kara 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine and Janet Salmons and have already identified some really useful 'assets' in chapters of my thesis I was going to skim over. Very helpful!

Ruth Squire Ruth Squire discusses the value and values of third sector collaboration for equality of opportunity for the SRHE Blog bit.ly/3LaOujh

Please do take a look. Would love to discuss!

Me, with opinions on evaluation?! Bonus points for spotting the literary reference in the subheadings. Would love to know what others thought!

Would love to see some of you at this for a very relevant and timely conversation! I'll be sharing some of my research findings on third sector influence on WP policy.

I wrote a little something about the prospect of OfS guidance on collaboration and the challenges of where the power lies. Lots to get into!

📢Announcement 📢The Phase Two Report of the Care-Experienced Graduates project will be released on Wednesday 21st February here: doi.org/10.15124/yao-v… If you are on the project mailing list, you will receive this directly to your inbox 📩