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Alumni Life Pulse 2023

Engaged alumni have the power to feed university recruitment, enrich the student experience, improve graduate employability, fund new innovation and provide real-world links for research and enterprise. Alterline’s Alumni Life Pulse provides insight into your alumni population, delivering the intelligence you need to drive alumni engagement and demonstrate your impact.

Student Life Pulse Light

Run our Light Student Life Pulse insight programme in the Spring 2023. Get in touch now if you're looking to understand your students' experiences, benchmarked against the 15 students' unions we're currently working with in our Pulse community

Library Life Pulse 2023

University Librarians are you in need of some updated, independent insight into your students’ and academics' library experiences and clear evidenced priorities to improve library services during the next academic year? If so, our Library Life Pulse service can provides exactly what you need and we would be delighted to welcome you into our Pulse community for Spring 2023!

Mature Student Recruitment – full report and summary now available

In 2020 Alterline conducted a vital qualitative study of the decision making journeys and influencers of mature students and their transitions into university life. The detailed findings are being used by the 6 participating institutions to support strategy work to improve experiences and outcomes for potential mature students. You can now access the complimentary summary as well as find out…

Parents as Influencers during Covid-19: Key findings summary now available

The 'Parents as Influencers during Covid-19’ insight collaboration brought together 18 universities and Uni Connect partners with the aim of understanding parents’ roles, perceptions, concerns and information needs surrounding their children’s higher education choices following the significant changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. An online survey of 601 parents followed by in-depth qualitative research with 35 parents of 16–18-year-olds…

Key findings: ‘Role of libraries in student wellbeing’ research project

The 'Role of libraries in student wellbeing’ insight collaboration brought together five university libraries (University of Salford, University of Exeter, University of Aberdeen, University of Dundee, and University of Hertfordshire) and Alterline to provide new evidence about students’ experiences and expectations of university libraries in relation to their wellbeing. You can now get your complimentary copy of the key findings…

Teachers as Influencers beyond Covid-19

What are teachers saying to students about university during and beyond COVID-19? How can you engage and support them effectively? There's still time to join this new national collaborative project, running until February 2022 to receive the full research report and participate in the results/action-planning work

Equality, diversity and inclusivity in academic libraries: project complete

The Office for Students has set ambitious targets to achieve equality of opportunity in higher education putting universities under increasing scrutiny to tackle the persistent awarding gap amongst some student groups. Black students are of particular concern due to being consistently awarded lower grades than their White counterparts. Planning is already in place among libraries to understand how they may…

The rising need for student mental health and wellbeing support

Student mental health and wellbeing have been high on the university agenda since it was recognised that there appeared to be higher levels of mental distress amongst students compared to their non-student peers.[1] Coupled with the intimate link between achieving academic success and strong mental health, the case for university and students’ unions’ teams to focus on developing their wellbeing…

Being well, doing well re-launched for 21/22

We continue to build on the evidence gathered to date and work with both university and union teams to generate insight and solutions based on student voice.