PhD Studentship in Widening Participation: Assessing the impact intervention activities on students' entering university

As both recent research and government statements have indicated, young people from disadvantaged or minority backgrounds are still significantly less likely to go to university, and particularly to one of the UK’s top universities. This is of great concern to the University of Exeter, and we are widely engaged, regionally and nationally in a range of activities designed to encourage higher aspirations to university and greater access to university. This studentship is intended to provide the university with robust evidence of the issues surrounding widening participation, and particularly the impact of the intervention activities we have undertaken on students’ entering university.