Access Participation and Success Seminar Series

The APS seminars provide an opportunity for practitioners, policy makers, researchers and students to share and learn from each other to widen participation and lead to better and more equitable outcomes for marginalised and underrepresented groups of students.

Previous APS seminars

• 2022 Seminar Series
  • Lessons from Digital Spaces: Inclusion and Support for Student Success - 25 May 2022

• 2021 Seminar Series
  • Mental Health Declaration by Black Students - task & finish group findings - 13 December 2021
  • Avoid photocopying the past: revisited - 9 December 2021
  • Intersectionality: how the multiplier effect divides and reduces student success - 30 September 2021

• 2018 Seminar Series
  • OU Workshop: Reducing The Black Degree Awarding Gap - 5 February 2018
  • OU Seminar: Supporting the Supporters, Care and Caring Experienced Learners - 19 April 2018
  • OU Seminar: Inclusion By Design - 12 July 2018

• 2017 Seminar Series
  • Understanding the impact of outreach for disadvantaged adult learners, Joint OU/ OfFA seminar, Woburn House Conference Center, 2 March 2017 
  • Wales Seminar - 9 May 2017
  • Challenges and opportunities of engaging adult learners in higher education within the Northern Ireland Northern Ireland seminar – 11 May 2017
  • Scotland Seminar - 25 May 2017
  • SRHE Seminar - 22 June 2018
  • What next for adult learners post-election/post-Brexit?  - 4 July Symposium

• 2016 Seminar Series
  • Widening Participation Seminar: Supporting WP through Open Educational Practices-  7 December 2015, Milton Keynes
  • First in Family - 23 October 2015, Milton Keynes
  • Recognition of Prior Learning -  26 February 2016, Milton Keynes
  • HE in FE - 21 June 2016, Milton Keynes
  • Access - 14 July 2016, Manchester