Peer Support Group

The Value and Impact project will be supported by a team of student services and HE experts, known as the Peer Support Group.  The Peer Support Group will provide adhoc advice and guidance to the project team as required, and comment on the project as it develops.

Terms of reference

Members of the Peer Support Group

Terms of reference

The Peer Support Group will:
1.            Provide detailed advice on evaluating student support services;
2.            Advise on possible pilot HEIs and services;
3.            Comment on the responses to the relevant questions in the AMOSSHE members’ survey;
4.            Offer detailed advice on the menu of toolkit options;
5.            Provide guidance during the pilot phase;
6.            Participate in a workshop to discuss experiences and results of pilot evaluations;
7.            Advise on the web-base resources and comment on the draft final report; and
8.            Provide any other relevant/appropriate advice/guidance to support the project, for example from a practitioner view point.

Peer Support Group Members

The Peer Support Group Chair is Dr. Andrew West.  Andrew is the director of one of the largest HE student services departments in England, and manages the team that developed the holistic toolkit at the University of Sheffield. He has a comprehensive understanding of the different services that support students, management needs within those services, and the ways that different measurements might be applied. Andrew is active within several HE professional organisations, including the Executive groups of AMOSSHE and the AUA, as well as being a member of the ARC professional development committee. Over the last two years Andrew chaired the steering group which led to the development of the AUA CPD framework.

July 2010

We are delighted to have appointed ten experts from the sector to the Peer Support Group.  These are (listed alphabetically by surname):

Ben Bailey, Senior Assistant Registrar,  University of Derby

Alison Barty, Head of Student Services and Senior Student Counsellor, School of Oriental and African Studies

Christine Buchanan, Dean of Students, Robert Gordon University

David Dickinson, Director of Student Services, University of Surrey

Robin Dollery, Head of Student Services, University of Nottingham

Cathryn Harvey, Academic Registrar, Newcastle University

Gillian Jack, Head of Student Services, University of Glamorgan

Theresa McGoldrick, Director of Student Services, University of the West of England

Sally Olohan, Head of Student Services, Nottingham Trent University

Chris Twine, Director of Student Support & Development, University of Birmingham