The 2019 conference was hosted by the University of Warwick and supported by the University of East Anglia on 27 April 2019.
It sought to advance critical reflections on national and international higher education outreach policy and practice and its implications for practitioners, academics, students and their communities. Papers examined questions, such as:
- What is the specific value and contribution of academics as ‘actors’ in outreach?
- How is academic outreach shaped by broader concerns shaping the higher education sector including massificiation, marketisation, globalisation and precarity?
- How can academic outreach be theorised or understood as part of academic career trajectories?
- How do questions of (in)equity and (dis)advantage emerge through the experiences of delivering, taking part in or researching outreach?
The organising team have collated the following list of abstracts
Full details and all pre-arrival information can be found here
Programme
| Time | Presentation | Speaker |
| 09.00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 09.50 | Welcome and housekeeping | Matthew Johnson and Jane Bryan |
| 10.00 | Introduction to session 1: Embedding HE in communities | Chair: Angela O’Sullivan |
| 10.05 | Community Engaged Universities: approaches and context (15 min +5 min for questions) | Séamus Ó Tuama University College Cork |
| 10.25 | Considering the impact of academic outreach with the participants of a participatory research project in a disadv- antaged area (15 min +5 min for questions) | Siobhán O’Sullivan Cathal O’Connell University College Cork |
| 10.45 | Post-truth politics and public trust: how can universities regain legitimacy in the public sphere? (15 min +5 min for questions) | Anil Awesti Jim Judges University of Warwick |
| 11.05 | Introduction to Session 2: Inequality and mobility | Chair: Matthew Johnson |
| 11.10 | Rethinking Disadvantage: A social capital approach to Widening Participation (15min +5 min for questions) | Guillermo Alonso Gareth Bowden Lancaster University |
| 11.30 | Do Cultural Capital, Habitus or contextual sources of Social Capital in addition to school attended affect progression into HE? (15 min +5 min for questions) | Jack Whybrow UEA |
| 11.50 | Writing Wrongs Schools Programme (15min + 5 min for questions) | James Harrison Becca Kirk University of Warwick |
| 12.10 | Lunch | |
| 13.00 | Introduction to Session 3: Widening Participation and Recruitment: | Chair: Matthew Johnson |
| 13.05 | Reach Out for Outreach (15 min +5 min for questions) | Angela O’Sullivan De Montfort Univeristy |
| 13.25 | Outreach at Coventry: Enhancement of Coventry University students’ experience through integration with the local community (15 min +5 min for questions) | Sharon Williams Coventry University |
| 13.45 | Blurred boundaries: Encouraging greater dialogue between student recruitment and widening participation (15 min +5 min for questions) | Chris Bayes Lancaster University |
| 14.05 | Introduction to Session 4: Employability and progression | Chair: Emily Danvers |
| 14.10 | Students as co-creators (5 min lightening paper + 5 min for questions) | Kristina Garner UEA |
| 14.20 | Enhancing Student Success Through Self- Assessment and Self-Efficacy Beliefs (15min +5 min for questions) | Fabio R Aricò UEA |
| 14.40 | Incorporating outreach into practice through curriculum design: perspectives from Initial Teacher Education (15 min +5 min for questions) | Will Haywood University of Warwick |
| 15.00 | Coffee | |
| 15.15 | Introduction to Session 5: Public science | Chair: Séamus Ó Tuama |
| 15:20 | Parents in Control: the Extreme Citizen Science of Parenting Science Gang (45 min workshop) | Tamasin Greenough Graham Claire Lucas Sophie Payne-Gifford University of Hertfordshire |
| 16:05 | Our experience with national and inter- national outreach and engagement for #wormsinspace (15 min + 5 min for questions) | Colleen Deane Christopher Gaffney Timothy Etheridge Nathaniel Szewczyk Bethan Phillips University of Exeter |
| 16:25 | Reaching out to the hard-to-reach: a mixed-methods analysis of a pilot Welsh STEM engagement project (15 min + 5 min for questions) | Rachel Bryana Mary Gagena Will Bryana Swansea University |
| 16:45 | Close and introduction to 2019/20 association coordinators | Patricia Harris Kristina Garner Angela O’Sullivan |