What works? Student retention and success conference 2012
- Date: 28 Mar 2012 - 29 Mar 2012
- Location/venue: The University of York, Heslington East campus, England, YO10 5DD
This two day residential conference is the final conference of the three year What works? student retention and success programme. It builds on the successful Retention Convention held in March 2010.
The conference will provide key note addresses from leading experts in the field of student retention and success, findings from the What works? programme as a whole, evidence relating to specific student groups and interventions, practical tools developed by the project teams, and sessions about retention research and interventions from across the UK and beyond.
The costs for the event are as follows:
Full conference (with dinner and accommodation on 28th March) - £250
Full conference (with dinner but no accommodation on 28th March) - £230
The call for papers, workshops and posters has now closed.
Contact email
Post event information
See recordings from the event:
http://www.policyreview.tv/conference/704-what-works?-student-retention
Post-event related documents
- What Works? Summary Report
- Compendium of Effective Practice
- 'Maximising graduates' chances of success' - presentation by Mantz Yorke
- 'Engaging Students, Engaging Teachers' - presentation by Christine Hockings
- 'Engaging Students, Engaging Teachers' - presentation 2 by Christine Hockings
- 'Back on course' - presentation by Rachel Nicholls
- 'Snapshots of effective learning' - presentation by Tony Churchill
- 'Snapshots of effective learning' - word document for Tony Churchill's presentation
- EILA2 - presentation by Simon Sneddon
- 'Student engagement for retention and success' - presentation by Sally Kift
- 'A multi-faceted approach to promoting student retention and success' - presentation by Clare Carter
- 'Enhancing the Induction Period' - presentation by Nicola Poole
- 'SAST: Fostering student engagement through supporting academic development' - presentation by Sarah Parkes and Julie Blackwell Young
- Engaging students to enhance retention and success: learning from the Australian context - presentation by Kerri-Lee Krause
Related documents/links
- Conference programme
- Conference schedule
- Retention and success at the HEA
- Reflections on the programme
- Accommodation in York
- Keynote addresses
- Speaker biographies
- List of papers
- List of posters
- List of workshops
- Call for papers - special What works? issue of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning Journal