TY - JOUR
T1 - The Big Read Collaboration between Kingston University, the University of Wolverhampton, Edge Hill University, and the University of the West of Scotland, 2018-2019
AU - Baverstock, Alison
AU - Steinitz, Jackie
AU - Shelar, Tanuja
AU - Squires, Kelly
AU - Karodia, Nazira
AU - Butler, Rebecca
AU - Smith, Sara
AU - Sopromadze, Natia
AU - Crowley, Sara
AU - Clark, Alison
AU - Hutchinson, Maya
AU - Holderness, Rebecca
AU - Carney, Clare
AU - Castle, Jeanette
AU - Jefferies, Richard
PY - 2020/11/30
Y1 - 2020/11/30
N2 - This paper outlines the experience of four universities that collaborated on a pre-arrival shared reading project, the Big Read, in 2018/2019. They did so primarily to promote student engagement and retention and also to ease the transition into higher education, particularly for first-generation students, to promote staff connectedness, and to provide a USP (unique selling point) for their institution. The paper covers all the associated processes, from isolating the respective aims of the collaborators to the choosing and sharing of a single agreed title. In analysing the outcomes, recommendations are made for future cross-institutional projects of this kind.
AB - This paper outlines the experience of four universities that collaborated on a pre-arrival shared reading project, the Big Read, in 2018/2019. They did so primarily to promote student engagement and retention and also to ease the transition into higher education, particularly for first-generation students, to promote staff connectedness, and to provide a USP (unique selling point) for their institution. The paper covers all the associated processes, from isolating the respective aims of the collaborators to the choosing and sharing of a single agreed title. In analysing the outcomes, recommendations are made for future cross-institutional projects of this kind.
KW - Education
U2 - 10.1163/18784712-03004001
DO - 10.1163/18784712-03004001
M3 - Article
SN - 0957-9656
VL - 31
SP - 34
EP - 65
JO - Logos
JF - Logos
IS - 3
ER -