Widening participation and outreach activities with parents

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Dear Lancaster University,

My request is regarding your widening participation and outreach activities,
specifically those related to working with and engaging parents. I am
asking for this information to support a research project into parental
engagement in higher education.

Please send me a list of any outreach programmes or activities currently
delivered by the university or by partners of the university in which the
programme directly with parents. Please provide this information as an
Excel or CSV file, using one activity/programme per row, with columns for:

1. The name of the activity

2. Which external partner, if any, you worked with to deliver
the activity

3. The aims of the activity

4. The key features of the activity e.g. delivery methods,
format of sessions, partners

5. The duration of the activity

6. The number of parents reached through the activity in the
last 12 months

7. Methods used to recruit parents to the programme

8. Whether particular groups of parents were targeted (e.g. by
ethnic group, socio-economic status, level of education)

9. Any evidence of the programme’s success, including how
success was defined and measured

I would like the above information to be provided to me in electronic
format, as an Excel or CSV file.

If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could
contact me. I understand that you are required to
respond to my request within the 20 working days after you receive this
request. I would be grateful if you could confirm by email that you have
received this request.

I look forward to receiving your response.

Kind Regards,

Ellie Mulcahy

Senior Research Associate

LKMco

Lancaster University

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Dear Ms.
Please could you clarify the following in order to deal with your
response:
Is your interest only with activity that is directly targeted at parents?
Are you only interested in pre-entry activity? If not please clarify.
Could you please specify the years of interest?
We look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely
Departmental Information Officer
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Dear Lancaster University,

Please interpret 'working with and engaging parents' as all those activities/events/programmes in which you have contact with parents, this may include activities in which you work solely with parents, those in which you work with parents and students/prospective students together and those which are mostly delivered to students/prospective students but involve parents in some parts. Please specify the level of involvement/contact the activity has with parents in the information you provide.

I am only interested in activities and programmes which are currently being run/are being run this year. For example if you run an activity each year between March and June and you intend to do so again this year, whilst this is not technically currently happening, please include it. However, if you have previously run a certain activity or programme and no longer do so, please do not include it.

I am interested in both pre and post entry activities.

Yours faithfully,

Ellie Mulcahy

Atkinson, Chris,

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Dear Ms Mulcahy

 

Please find attached the response to your recent freedom of information
request.

 

Regards,

 

The Information Governance Team

Lancaster University

Email: [1][email address]

 

 

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Dear Chris,

Thank you for the information you supplied in response to the FOI, is it possible to have the excel spreadsheet rather than a pdf? It's just due to the way I will conduct analysis of all the response to this FOI. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Ellie Mulcahy

Atkinson, Chris,

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Dear Ms Mulcahy

Please find attached the spreadsheet as requested,

Regards,

The Information Governance Team
Lancaster University
Email: [email address]

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