least 12 partnerships have shared data with schools and colleges , through formats such as meetings , reports and data dashboards .
Examples of using and sharing data
Kent and Medway Collaborative Outreach Programme used the findings of their quasiexperimental evaluation of the Future You programme with FE college students to inform the design and delivery of future work with FE colleges ; baseline survey data was provided to colleges participating in a dashboard format .
The Southern Universities Partnership have shared an interactive PowerBI dashboard with schools to enable access to anonymised data on engagement with their work as well as survey results , whilst HeppSY have done this using Tableau .
Participatory research approaches - SUN Young Researchers
SUN Young Researchers is a group of young people who are interested in understanding issues important to young people . These young people are recruited from youth clubs , schools and voluntary organisations . They live in areas across the South Coast and are aged between 13 and 19 years of age . The project is delivered in collaboration with the Participation People , youth engagement specialists .
A key objective of this project is for SUN partner Universities to take over responsibility for it and continue to embed youth voice within their outreach programmes and evaluation frameworks .
Over the past two academic years , the SUN Young Researchers have led three research projects . The recommendations from the SUN Young Researchers ’ projects have played a pivotal role in the development of the SUN outreach offer across the partnership . Wellbeing has become a core aspect of SUN ’ s evaluation framework under the theoretical underpinning of Possible Selves ( Markus and Nurius , 1986 ).
In addition to this , in 2020 / 21 SUN are embedding Young Researchers as strategic impact evaluation support . Due to restrictions on external visitors to schools , young researchers will be trained to lead interviews and focus groups with students , staff and senior leadership teams within their own schools and colleges . They will also support the SUN Research and Evaluation team in creating an impact report outlining recommendations for the legacy of Uni Connect post- July 2021 .
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