Had a great night at The Manchester Legal Awards, where we won in the EDI Champions category! Feeling very lucky to work with such a wonderful team of people, who genuinely care so much about the work we do.

An interesting session on developing institutional indicators at the NERUPI Expert Session for Evaluators today. Really relevant for current APP work and addressing the Equality of Opportunity Risk Register. #NERUPI #APP #OfS #EORR

#FlexibleWorking has the power to open up the world of work for disabled talent. Here are just a few direct quotes from Astriid’s recent research, where you can see for yourself what a difference it can make to individuals’ working and personal lives...

So proud of my sister 🌟 A shining example that you can succeed in higher education and achieve your dreams as a mature student, studying whilst working, and being a Mum to a school-age kid. What a superstar!

RLT ❤️

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Excited to be in Birmingham today for the Evaluation Collective Wicked Evaluation Problems zine launch. Liz Austen (Booth) kicking off with an overview of the QAA collaborative enhancement project. #WickedEvaluation

The brilliant Darren McGarvey @lokiscottishrap kicking off todays Alliance of Working-Class Academics "Working-Class and Compounding Disadvantage Conference" 🙏🏻 #workingclass #education #Identity #workingclassthinkers #Sociology #livedexperiences #classedconsciousness

Brilliant hour with * - so many excellent points... The recording will hopefully be released on #YouTube very soon. Thankyou 👏

Today I’m at the #NERUPI event on raising attainment in schools. First up is Paul Ashwin, quite rightly acknowledging the challenges and tensions we face, particularly around the expectations of universities’ roles in this work.

Spending the next couple of days at #TASOCon24. Looking forward to catching up with colleagues from across the sector. We have been busy already creating a problem tree around null and negative results with peers from Keele University 🐿️ and University of Salford

Mike Kerrigan, Head of Research and Insights (Access and Participation), Nottingham Trent University discusses institutional data sets, the importance of reducing selection bias, case control matching and propensity score matching #TasoCon24

Delayed at a very soggy Palma airport this evening. Hoping we get home tonight!

I’m pleased to be at UCL today with the HEAT research group. It’s always great to network with other research and evaluation folk, and it’s particularly exciting to hear people’s post-entry plans.

I am “if I can’t get seated tickets to the gig I’m not going” years old

At the RAISE network conference today, focused on equity in attainment and student success. After presenting our work on inclusive learning, I’m enjoying other ‘storytelling’ sessions from colleagues from across the sector. #RAISE2024

I’m at the NERUPI convention today and the theme is ‘building organisational change for equity and widening participation’. Alexandra Lyons summarises this perfectly with this quote from her Churchill Fellowship Research.

📢Call for chapter abstracts📢 I am co-leading on a book proposal: 'Research & Care-Experience: Methods & ethics'. We are now seeking abstract submissions from care-experienced researchers/academics. Please read the call for abstracts for more details! 📘 docs.google.com/document/d/1A5…