Podcast
The Student Voice Weekly is a short podcast for UK higher education leaders who want to turn student feedback, policy and research into practical action. Each week, Dr Stuart Grey, founder of Student Voice AI and Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, unpacks the latest evidence on student voice, assessment, feedback, regulation and institutional improvement. Expect concise briefings on HE research, OfS and QAA developments, NSS and survey practice, and practical ways to use student comments more rigorously.
Latest episode
Episode 38 · 13 November 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explores what satisfied students still want to change, using research connecting survey ratings and comments, new OfS examples for AI-assisted assessment feedback, and practical institution-wide analysis. He explains how generative summaries complement Excel reports, sentence-level classification and access to the original comments.
Episode 37 · 06 November 2026
Dr Stuart Grey follows a colleague preparing a learning and teaching committee document using Student Voice AI Excel reports. He explains how the workbooks complement generative summaries, connect categories and sentiment to original survey comments, and support institutional research teams in applying their local knowledge. He also covers routinely generated institution, faculty, department and school sheets, with comment redaction as standard.
Episode 36 · 30 October 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explains how Student Voice AI compares positive and negative NSS feedback with corresponding sector benchmark sets using the same deterministic models. He follows sentence-level categories into whole comments, then explores discipline and demographic differences, including nursing placement experiences.
Episode 35 · 23 October 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explores how school and programme reports connect local survey comments with institution-wide analysis. He explains the role of organisational information, consistent categories and sentiment, reading the original comments, and bringing local interpretation back into institutional decisions.
Episode 34 · 16 October 2026
Dr Stuart Grey begins with searching student comments in an Excel export, then compares that workflow with the Student Voice review tools and the benefits of broader discovery, precise wording and complete comment context.
Episode 33 · 09 October 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explores trends and discipline differences in our NSS feedback data, connects them with assessment timing, clarity and usable next steps, and briefly discusses research on perceived fairness.
Episode 32 · 02 October 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explores institution-wide patterns in survey comments, the work of getting support, doctoral research processes and the evidence behind university decisions.
Episode 31 · 25 September 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explores disagreement and uncertainty in student partnership, then considers what a listening exercise can offer and how students can understand the influence of their contribution.
Episode 30 · 18 September 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explores practical help, emotional support and doctoral expectations, then asks how universities can use student feedback to examine what happened after help was offered.
Episode 29 · 11 September 2026
Dr Stuart Grey connects research on teaching ratings and housing insecurity with QAA guidance on participation costs, asking how course and quality teams can interpret feedback and examine whose experiences may be missing.
Episode 28 · 04 September 2026
Dr Stuart Grey examines QAA and Swansea University's safeguards for GenAI-assisted comment analysis and explains why Student Voice AI separates deterministic categorisation and sentiment from locally run LLM summarisation.
Episode 27 · 28 August 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explains why student feedback needs a clear route to the people who can act, with comments providing the context scores cannot.
Episode 26 · 21 August 2026
Dr Stuart Grey explores how universities can distinguish worthwhile academic challenge from avoidable stress created by course design.
Episode 25 · 14 August 2026
This week, the episode discusses 83 students show what grades miss about learning. Student narratives reveal development that attainment measures cannot show.
Episode 24 · 07 August 2026
This week, the episode discusses wellbeing strategy, feedback confidence, and early student voice. What changes when students frame the questions, gather the evidence, and interpret it.
Episode 23 · 31 July 2026
This week, the episode discusses participation, belonging, and visible NSS action. Why space, audience, and influence matter more than another feedback channel.
Episode 22 · 24 July 2026
This week, the episode discusses module evaluations, student agency, and care. Why speaking up helps learning, and what Hallam's survey reset tells us.
Episode 21 · 17 July 2026
This week, the episode discusses representation, accent bias, and short-course feedback. Why student representation needs training, trust, and broader evidence.
Episode 20 · 10 July 2026
This week, the episode discusses NSS 2026, evaluation risk, and modular feedback. Why student comments need faster analysis, safeguards, and subgroup action.
Episode 19 · 03 July 2026
This week, the episode discusses NSS timing, VLE feedback, and dialogue. Why student feedback needs faster analysis, context, and academic judgement.
Episode 18 · 26 June 2026
This week, the episode discusses aI attitudes, mini-publics, and feedback governance. Why AI survey design needs to separate usefulness, identity, and concern.
Episode 17 · 19 June 2026
This week, the episode discusses aI trust, survey design, and assessment feedback. Students judge staff AI use through care, trust, and visible human judgement.
Episode 16 · 12 June 2026
This week, the episode discusses aI trust, feedback dialogue, and human judgement. Students experience AI through trust, anxiety, fairness, and the visibility of human judgement.
Episode 15 · 05 June 2026
This week, the episode discusses time poverty, fair evaluations, and TEF evidence. Low-income students are often short of time because university systems assume spare capacity.
Episode 14 · 29 May 2026
This week, the episode discusses belonging, franchise evidence, and survey design. International wellbeing and belonging depend on ordinary peer and staff contact.
Episode 13 · 22 May 2026
This week, the episode discusses AI feedback, assessment evidence, and student value. Students welcome AI feedback when teacher judgement stays in the loop.
Episode 12 · 15 May 2026
This week, the episode discusses feedback literacy, OfS scrutiny, and NSS prep. A longitudinal study shows why feedback-use scores can miss real change.
Episode 11 · 08 May 2026
This week, the episode discusses belonging, partnership, and assessment rules. New research shows welcome week strengthens peer belonging, not staff connection.
Episode 10 · 01 May 2026
This week, the episode discusses engagement design, AI feedback, and assessment change. New research suggests engagement gaps often point to institutional design.
Episode 9 · 24 April 2026
This week, the episode discusses genAI trust, QAA benchmarks, and response bias. 739 students show why trust matters for AI disclosure
Episode 8 · 17 April 2026
This week, the episode discusses belonging, mature student induction, DMU block teaching, Jisc DEI. 66 studies show retention work needs richer belonging evidence
Episode 7 · 10 April 2026
This week, the episode discusses evaluation dialogue, belonging data, and survey design. Feedback helps teaching only when staff have space to discuss it.
Episode 6 · 03 April 2026
This week, the episode discusses better evaluations, OfS evidence trails, and PTES design. A six-year redesign study shows better evaluation data starts with co-design.
Episode 5 · 26 March 2026
This week, the episode discusses QAA representation study, accreditation visibility, and benchmarking. Students who participate in QA rate its impact higher
Episode 4 · 20 March 2026
This week, the episode discusses halo effects, gender bias, wellbeing surveys, MyGrades. Halo effects flatten evaluation scores, but they do not make the data useless
Episode 3 · 13 March 2026
This week, the episode discusses misconduct data, feedback speed, TEF dashboard, E10. Misconduct reflections reveal where integrity support is breaking down
Episode 2 · 05 March 2026
This week, the episode discusses evals, OfS pulse, QAA toolkit. Incentives beat shortening surveys for evaluations, plus OfS pulse results
Episode 1 · 25 February 2026
This week, the episode discusses resilience, NSS guidance, TEF fix. Active learning and clear goals linked to resilience, plus OfS NSS guidance