Jackson, Paul and Purcell, Kate (2007) Involving staff and students in research. Graduate Market Trends, Autumn 07 .

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Abstract

This workshop presented a project initiated and developed at the Putting Research Outcomes into Practice (PROP) workshop and subsequently by Paul Jackson and Kate Purcell, to initiate a general discussion about the potential to improve communication and mutually-useful collaboration between researchers and careers practitioners.

The presenters described how the project has been built around the current Futuretrack longitudinal study of full-time higher education UCAS applicants, beginning with the design and testing of the Stage 2 online questionnaire, to be released in summer 2007 at the end of what, for most of the original 130,000 respondents at Stage 1, was their first year of higher education (see footnote). The careers teams at the universities of the West of England, Leicester, Warwick and Westminster signed up to work with the researchers and in Spring 2007, set up questionnaire-testing workshops where first year students were recruited and given a small incentive to spend an hour working through the draft questionnaire, discussing their experience of doing so, and how well they felt the questionnaire worked in terms of the issues covered and the format of questions. For the research team, this identified weaknesses and ambiguities in the questionnaire. The range of student experiences provided at these different universities clarified where questions did and did not work for different kinds of students: those on lab-based rather than library and seminar-based courses, those with a strong vocational work-based element, and the perspectives of students in different situations - for example, studying as a mature or overseas student. It was only in testing the questionnaire that the complexity of some of these issues - and refinements to research design required to take account of them - became clear.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research
Journal or Publication Title:	Graduate Market Trends
Publisher:	Graduate Prospects Ltd
ISSN:	1467-3312
Official Date:	2007
Dates:	Date Event 2007 Published
Volume:	Autumn 07
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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