{"id":694,"date":"2014-06-06T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T09:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/gmoof\/?p=694"},"modified":"2014-06-06T10:34:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T10:34:13","slug":"southampton-feedback-champion-impressions-post-grad-student-kristina-stuart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/gmoof\/southampton-feedback-champion-impressions-post-grad-student-kristina-stuart\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Southampton Feedback Champion: impressions from a post-graduate student (by Kristina Stuart)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kristina-Stuart-upright\"<\/a>I must confess, I applied to be a Southampton Feedback Champion initially because it offered the practical experience I needed to complement a master\u2019s qualification in Sociology and Social Policy; and it was some extra shoe-shopping money.\u00a0 However, after the first meeting I realised the importance of this program\u2019s mandate. Feedback Champions offered students the opportunity to engage with university policy and make a contribution to the scholastic experience of students across campus, a change it was discovered, we didn\u2019t fully consider within our purview as students.<\/p>\n

Feedback for many was an abstract concept that did not translate beyond formal summative feedback at the end of semester. Moreover, feedback was seldom considered upon the receipt of what students felt to be a fair grade. The Southampton Feedback Champions project gave the student researchers and participants a lens through which to view feedback, a holistic view that encompassed more than grades. Feedback then came to encompass peer reviews, tutorial sessions, emails and other taken-for-granted communication between staff and students. What\u2019s more, the academics assumed the students understood the holistic concept but given the diversity of the university\u2019s student population such information had not spread beyond a few. Feedback Champions brought this disparity to the fore with a mandate to make feedback widely comprehensible and implement change that would benefit both parties through needs assessments.<\/p>\n

As a budding social science researcher, this project was a cumulative exercise of my degree program\u2019s substantive modules. And as a postgraduate mentor I was able through my zealous appreciation for the project\u2019s objectives to share this with my mentees, two math students who had never done research before. I was \u2018on call\u2019 to answer questions and conduct practice interviews as my mentees were committed to producing the best data and I am proud of their findings and growth as researchers.<\/p>\n

I am grateful to the LLAS for conceptualising this project and their decision to involve students in the project design, data collection and presentation of findings. \u00a0I am confident that the data collected will inform faculty-specific practises and policies that will have a great impact of the academic and student experience at the University of Southampton.<\/p>\n

Kristina Stuart
\nMSc Sociology and Social Policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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