Episode 15 · 05 June 2026
Time poverty is the new hidden barrier
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.
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The Student Voice Weekly
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.
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Episode 14 · 29 May 2026
Belonging is built in seminars, not slogans
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
AI Feedback Needs Teacher Judgement and Better Design
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
When Scores Miss the Feedback Story
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
Welcome week is not your belonging strategy
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
Engagement is a design problem, not a student problem
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
Trust is the missing piece in AI disclosure
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
Belonging is not a single number
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
Evaluations do not improve teaching, conversations do
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
Co-design your evaluations or you will not trust the data
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
Make quality assurance visible, or students will assume it is not working
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
When scores all move together: halo effects, bias, and what to do with student feedback
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
Confusion, workload, and the real drivers of misconduct
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
Response rates are not a shortening problem
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
Resilience is not a wellbeing service, it is a teaching design outcome
This week, the episode discusses resilience, NSS guidance, TEF fix. Active learning and clear goals linked to resilience, plus OfS NSS guidance