Session 30: Mapping the student experience: a data-driven approach to enhancing wellbeing and engagement

Abstract

Session overview:

Background and content of the session

Understanding and exploring the student experience is essential for identifying and developing student support systems. This session will present the Student Experience Mapping Project, a collaborative initiative across the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, the Student Advice and Wellbeing Team and Academic Achievement Hub, to ensure that the student experience is placed at the heart of this mapping process.

What are we doing?

Building on best practices such as the Nottingham Trent Student Emotional Journey Map, this project will integrate multiple data sources to support our understanding of the student experience and how it varies over the academic year. This will include identifying trends in attendance and assessment submission data and thematic analysis and mapping of student wellbeing concerns over the academic year. This will also include tracking of Academic Achievement Hub workshop attendance and engagement patterns, and consultation with course reps and peer mentors within the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences. These data sources will help inform an LJMU calendar visualisation of the student experience, with insights on wellbeing themes, attendance and engagement trends across the academic calendar, to help identify early interventions and support that might vary over an academic calendar year. These findings could also help shape institution-wide practices and be applied in other Schools and across the institution, to better understand unique factors that shape the broad student experience at LJMU.

Key learning points from this session:

Attendees will learn about a project looking to map and explore the student experience using a combination of student engagement (attendance/submissions/Academic Achievement Workshops) and thematic student wellbeing, and how it varies over an academic calendar year.

Mapping the student experience: a data-driven approach to enhancing wellbeing and engagement PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.