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Student Recipes

Student Street is the home of student insight; it’s where you’ll find the things we observe and discover during our time talking to, and living alongside, students. Wanting to know what's going on in students' kitchens we asked three students to cook us their typical meal. Allyson For Allyson keeping a balanced diet is really important. In the video above,…

Shaping the future of the University of Birmingham Library

The University of Birmingham is building a new library which is due to open in Autumn 2016. To inform future developments, Library Services commissioned Alterline to help them better understand their user’s needs, perceptions, experiences and journeys.   A large-scale quantitative survey was completed by 2,360 students, and a series of focus groups were conducted to explore key themes and…

Growing up with Cystic Fibrosis: My student experience

Being a student is a life changing experience for everyone; but Jodie's university years have been particularly unique. In our short film 'Growing up with cystic fibrosis', we explore Jodie’s student experience following her life-changing lung transplant at the age of 18. For information on joining the Organ Donor register please click here. Jodie spent a day with Noz and Meg from our team earlier…

Alterline on campus

The term "student experience" now seems a permanent feature of the vocabulary of education and as much as facts, stats and league tables show us who the leaders are in providing this elusive concept, at Alterline we think there's no greater route to understanding student experience than getting immersed in campus life and capturing what it’s all about. We've spoken…

A brand is the sum of a thousand small gestures

When Hallam Students' Union, asked us to help them assess their Students' Union brand and create and embed a set of brand values that would connect with their members, I had this quote from Disney in mind... We believe that brand is about values and experiences rather than images and logos. To understand the current Students' Union brand values and…