Student Research Experience Placements

Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE) in collaboration with the Educational Engagement team developed these supervised research experience placements (REP) in 2021. These summer placements continue after the success of the first year.

REPs offer students at the University the opportunity to work as professional colleagues in partnership with staff, through carrying out independent research. Many projects support the delivery of the Access and Student Success Strategy 2025 with an emphasis on exploring aspects of the student experience through the lens of under-represented groups including, but not limited to people who experience racism, mature, care leaver, Access to Leeds and Plus Programme students. Other projects support or further the work of current or former LITE Fellows and are related to their fellowship research.

The 2024 Student Research Experience Placements are currently being advertised here

2023 Placements

A Representative Medical Curriculum

Chloe Anderton

Discussing Curriculum Redefined with the University senior leaders

Annie Bocock

Building Belonging Through Group Personal Tutoring

Charlotte Crooke

Decolonising Resources for Students in the Arts and Humanities

Owen Frost

Digital engagement and under-represented groups

Nicole Hempsall

Exploring a world-leading archive of Caribbean and Black British writing

Pavandeep Kaur

Investigating the impacts of teaching and learning research

Eve Little

Colonial History of the University of Leeds

Samuel Lou

Exploring the barriers to engagement in group work

Sruthi Ramakrishnan

Design of a digital desktop application

Sanjana Ramaswamy

Factors influencing BAME graduates’ academic career considerations

Santiago Alfaro Rotondo

Mature Students' experiences of degree outcomes

Jennifer Rushworth

How financial adversity can affect the undergraduate student

Anna Thew

Enhancing the perceived value of diversity

Sofie Wimble

Placements completed in 2022

Alice Annetts-Smith and Jess Fielder: Welcome, Induction and Transition and the impact on student success

Alice Barber: Disability in the Undergraduate Healthcare Curriculum

Theodore Bedford: Authenticity, connection, belonging, inclusion, and consequent engagement in the context of online higher education

Shakeela Brown: The Black Mentoring Scheme: Mentoring for Medicine and Surgery MBChB students of black heritage

Jessica Davison: Exploring Belonging through Qualitative Research

Nell Hayes: Exploring the Colonial History of the University of Leeds - Part 2

Sophia Lambert: A reverse mentoring exploration of Academic Personal Tutors (APT) in partnership with 'under-represented' students

Faijabanu Patel: Academic personal tutoring and impact on belonging

Sumayyah Patel: Impact of inclusive assessment on degree awarding gaps for Black, Asian and minority ethnic and mature learners

Imrenjeet Pendhar: Learning analytics and Student Success

Tamunodein Princewill: The Colonial Nature of Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs) - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) specific

Freya Stancliffe: Institutional Engagement with Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Sarah Wyatt: Mature Student Awarding Gaps

Placements completed in 2021

Layla Kouara: Impact of pre-university learning for undergraduate psychology students

Max Hughes: Effective strategies for teaching maths online

Yvonne Lai: Effective online assessment methods for maths education

Estaa Nyeko-Lacek: Decolonising reading lists

Naomi Eluwa: Exploring the colonial history of the University of Leeds

Hunayda Abdulmula: Faith and student success

Penelope Sucharitkul: Widening participation in postgraduate study

Hope Hutchison: Evidencing sense of belonging at Leeds

Mike Kerr: An exploration of sense of belonging at Leeds