What is the university experience of undergraduate students from the LGBTQ+ community and how can you engage and support them effectively?
Many students do not experience equality of opportunity in higher education. This is true across the three main stages of a student’s higher education journey: access, participation and progression. To help tackle this inequality, the OfS have recently published an Equality of Opportunity Risk Register (the EORR), which identifies 12 sector-wide risks that may affect a student’s opportunity to access and succeed in higher education. Students from the LGBTQ+ community are identified within the EORR as potentially being at risk in four key areas: academic support; personal support; mental health and progression.
This new research from Alterline will provide fresh quantitative and qualitative evidence to inform the participation and progression strategies you’re adopting right now to support students from the LGBTQ+ community, helping you mitigate the risks within your own student population as well as contributing to understanding at a national level.
This research report will support you in understanding:
- What is the student experience like for undergraduates from the LGBTQ+ community?
- What about their student experience is a barrier to progression? How can this be improved?
- What support and interventions are effective/ineffective from students’ perspectives
- What other support could have an impact on retention and outcomes for students from the LGBTQ+ community?
