At last week’s Re-Welcome Fair, held in the Glasgow University Union, workstream members of the Learning & Teaching Strategy held a stall to speak with students, sharing information about the strategy and gaining insight into their views on new projects.

One of our goals was to gain qualitative insights through student feedback on potential names for a new course which will be part of the Curriculum 4 Life suite of courses. As well as this, we used the stall as an opportunity to highlight student engagement opportunities by promoting the student panels. Student panels are run monthly and insights collected from students to help research for the Learning and Teaching Strategy projects.

 

How we gained feedback on the day

Students were given the opportunity to view potential course names for the new course, currently temporarily named ‘Interdisciplinary Projects’. The students were given three options to choose from and were able to indicate their preference by putting a yellow sticker on their preferred title.

The L&T Strategy Team were able to collect qualitative insights from students who were indicating their preference by recording short interviews with them on the spot. We gained over fifty responses from students, which we will use to help inform the title of the new course, which will be rolled out next year.

Each student who engaged in the activity was offered the opportunity to enter their email address into a raffle to win a £50 voucher. This use of incentivisation helped us get the attention of students as they walked by and gave them more reason to participate in the activity.

 

Our recommendations

Overall, this was a great opportunity to discuss the project with students from various subject areas and level of study, providing insight into the way students feel about the course as well as raising awareness of the project work taking place as part of the Learning & Teaching Strategy.

If you are interested in hosting a stall at the re-welcome week in the future, we would recommend bringing lots of goodies including sweets, stickers and flyers for students to take away. Think about having an incentive factor, such as a voucher draw. We would also recommend setting out a goal to clarify what you’d like to get out of the day – this will help set expectations for your investment, while also giving your team and students interns an understanding of what they should do on the day.

 Written by Alessandro Peacock & Kaitlin Willoughby, Student Skills and Professional Development Interns

First published: 29 January 2025

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