Study title
Students’ Experiences of a University Campus for Learning and Socialising, and Impact of COVID-19, 2019-2022
Creator
Study number / PID
9269 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-9269-1 (DOI)
Data access
Open
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Abstract
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The aim of this study was to create a student-centred theory of university campus by understanding how students use the physical space for learning and socialising and how this usage changes over time. The study ran for three years at the University of Bradford. The city campus was the site researched and 24 undergraduate students were recruited and retained across three phases of data collection aligned with three academic years; 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22. In years 19/20 and 21/20, data was collected with a place-based method that involved a participant led walking interview combined with audio recorded unstructured interview, participant digital photography of campus and researcher mapping of the route walked. In 20/21, data was collected with online methods via participant produced photos with photo elicitation interviews or unstructured interviews. The objectives of the study were to understand how students used campus for socialising and learning, how their usage changed over time, explore the potential of a novel combined place-based method, and develop an analysis protocol to carry out synchronic and diachronic analysis on visual, textual and spatial data.
Main Topics:
Student experience; university campus; COVID-19 disruption
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Methodology
Data collection period
29/09/2019 - 30/05/2022
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Analysis unit
Universe
The University of Bradford had an average of 10667 undergraduate and postgraduate students throughout the three years of this study. Further information on the university’s population can be found from HESA. There are 24 undergraduate student participants in this dataset with a mix of gender, ethnicity, living situations and year of study which are disclosed within the dataset.
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Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2024
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence.