March 2013

Book Proposal

The team’s book proposal (working title ‘Stepping up to the Second Year at University: Academic, Psychological and Social Dimensions’) has been approved for publication in the SRHE/Routledge book series ‘Research into Higher Education’. 

The book, written from an’ institutional research’ perspective, will offer insights into the following questions:

• In what way do students’ perceptions of their experience shift as they progress through the first two years of study?
• How do psychological factors impact on student engagement and performance in the second year?

• What in the second-year curriculum may need greater attention?

The emphasis of the book will be on how institutions, programme teams and professional service departments can fully exploit the evidence they collect (but may not always use) and research their own activities in the interests of enhancing the chances of student success.