Growing Creative Leaders of the Future
- Submitting institution
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Ravensbourne University London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- PS03
- Type
- N - Research report for external body
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- Commissioning body
- Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
- Month
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- Year
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This submission is supported with a contextual information template attached in a PDF format, with a section called ‘Output Description’ which identifies the submitted output for evaluation. Then contextual information, research narrative, funding, dissemination.
The output being submitted for assessment is the Evaluation Report representing the findings of a
12 month research programme, funded by the Leadership Foundation to design, test and measure
the efficacy of an enhanced approach to student engagement.
The portfolio also covers dissemination activities, context and development within the programme.
The research question we examined was how a small specialist Higher Education Institution with a
focus on design and communications could:
1. Test a scalable leadership model showing how Ravensbourne students can play in civil society and within the institution;
2. Integrate this approach as part of a review of Quality Assurance and student engagement
within Ravensbourne;
3. Capture the content and new student-led ideas and to test its viability as an integral part of
the student experience;
4. Disseminate the findings through the wider specialist HEI network of small institutions.
Our methodology integrated Resilience Thinking, The Thinking Environment, Community Organising within a framework of students as ‘co-creators’. The
programme comprised:
• Workshops: five 3-hour Leadership Training workshops held over 5 weeks.
• Tools, including Diagnostic Exercises, Active Listening and Incisive questioning Tools,
• Validated Measures using the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale
• Student led Campaigns
• Partnerships with community and voluntary sector organisations
• Cross Institutional inks
• Symposium on the Civic University bringing together over 40 academics and community
leaders
Following its publication by AdvanceHE, the project led to the delivery of a keynote presentation at
the Guild HE conference on Active Citizenship and Ravensbourne’s winning of the Stationers
Innovation Excellence Award in April 2016, following a nomination by the CEO of Citizens UK.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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