The Student Voice Weekly

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A weekly audio briefing for UK higher education leaders on student feedback, regulation, research, and practical student voice evidence.

Episodes

  1. When Scores Miss the Feedback Story

    3D AGO

    When Scores Miss the Feedback Story

    This week, the episode discusses feedback literacy, OfS scrutiny, and NSS prep. A longitudinal study shows why feedback-use scores can miss real change.

    8 min
  2. Welcome week is not your belonging strategy

    MAY 8

    Welcome week is not your belonging strategy

    This week, the episode discusses belonging, partnership, and assessment rules. New research shows welcome week strengthens peer belonging, not staff connection.

    8 min
  3. Engagement is a design problem, not a student problem

    MAY 1

    Engagement is a design problem, not a student problem

    This week, the episode discusses engagement design, AI feedback, and assessment change. New research suggests engagement gaps often point to institutional design.

    8 min
  4. Trust is the missing piece in AI disclosure

    APR 24

    Trust is the missing piece in AI disclosure

    This week, the episode discusses genAI trust, QAA benchmarks, and response bias. 739 students show why trust matters for AI disclosure

    8 min
  5. Belonging is not a single number

    APR 17

    Belonging is not a single number

    This week, the episode discusses belonging, mature student induction, DMU block teaching, Jisc DEI. 66 studies show retention work needs richer belonging evidence

    8 min
  6. Evaluations do not improve teaching, conversations do

    APR 10

    Evaluations do not improve teaching, conversations do

    This week, the episode discusses evaluation dialogue, belonging data, and survey design. Feedback helps teaching only when staff have space to discuss it.

    7 min
  7. Co-design your evaluations or you will not trust the data

    APR 3

    Co-design your evaluations or you will not trust the data

    This week, the episode discusses better evaluations, OfS evidence trails, and PTES design. A six-year redesign study shows better evaluation data starts with co-design.

    7 min
  8. Make quality assurance visible, or students will assume it is not working

    MAR 26

    Make quality assurance visible, or students will assume it is not working

    This week, the episode discusses QAA representation study, accreditation visibility, and benchmarking. Students who participate in QA rate its impact higher

    7 min
  9. When scores all move together: halo effects, bias, and what to do with student feedback

    MAR 20

    When scores all move together: halo effects, bias, and what to do with student feedback

    This week, the episode discusses halo effects, gender bias, wellbeing surveys, MyGrades. Halo effects flatten evaluation scores, but they do not make the data useless

    8 min
  10. Confusion, workload, and the real drivers of misconduct

    MAR 13

    Confusion, workload, and the real drivers of misconduct

    This week, the episode discusses misconduct data, feedback speed, TEF dashboard, E10. Misconduct reflections reveal where integrity support is breaking down

    8 min
  11. Response rates are not a shortening problem

    MAR 5

    Response rates are not a shortening problem

    This week, the episode discusses evals, OfS pulse, QAA toolkit. Incentives beat shortening surveys for evaluations, plus OfS pulse results

    8 min
  12. Resilience is not a wellbeing service, it is a teaching design outcome

    FEB 25

    Resilience is not a wellbeing service, it is a teaching design outcome

    This week, the episode discusses resilience, NSS guidance, TEF fix. Active learning and clear goals linked to resilience, plus OfS NSS guidance

    8 min
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A weekly audio briefing for UK higher education leaders on student feedback, regulation, research, and practical student voice evidence.

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  • Creator
    Dr Stuart Grey
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Clean
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    The Student Voice Weekly