Dr Laura Delgaty (SME) as project lead with Dr Joanna Matthan , Dr Sally Mumford, Dr Clare Guilding and  Lynne Rawles (Graduate School) have been awarded a 2014/15 strategic ULTSEC Innovation Fund (£9500) to investigate “Digital Capabilities and Expectations of Prospective Students: Preparing Newcastle University for Learning and Teaching of the Future”.

It is hoped this project will influence Newcastle University’s Technology Enhanced learning strategy as it is developed for the next five years.  The project will elicit views of young people from schools across the region around their use of technology within learning.  In particular data concerning widening participation and gender differences will be collected to gain insight about the heterogeneity of the student population.  This research should help shape thinking relating to technology in both the teaching and learning of future students.