The Student Voice Weekly

This week, Dr Stuart Grey focuses on NSS 2026 results day: the national headlines, the disabled student gaps that still need action, and what it takes to turn large volumes of student comments into usable evidence quickly. The episode also looks at what Student Voice AI produced for NSS customers on results day, why sentence-level labels matter, and how recent research should shape the way univers...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey starts with Daniel Robson and Helena Lim's Wonkhe piece on King's College London, where the NSS comment analysis work was delivered in collaboration with Student Voice AI. The episode discusses why faster comment analysis matters only when it preserves enough detail for human review, academic judgement, and visible action while universities still have time to respond. In...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses why universities need sharper AI-related student feedback questions, especially as guidance moves from broad policy statements into modules, assessments, and local teaching practice. The episode covers AI attitude survey design, Jisc's latest AI guidance and governance work, student mini-publics, and how universities can separate AI comments by usefulness, clari...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses why students judge staff AI use through care, trust, fairness, and visible human judgement, not only through technical competence or speed. The episode covers new research on student perceptions of AI-using teachers, evidence on AI detector false positives, Bath's survey architecture, QAA's assessment and feedback roadshow, and a practical way to separate studen...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses AI legitimacy and student voice evidence: why students judge AI through trust, anxiety, fairness, and the visibility of human judgement, not only through speed or technical performance. The episode covers student feelings about generative AI, feedback dialogue, Cambridge evidence on AI marking, Jisc's formative feedback pilot, and practical ways to separate comm...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses time poverty and student voice evidence: how low-income students lose study time through work, travel, administration, money pressure, and systems that assume spare capacity. The episode covers time poverty as widening participation evidence, fair process in student evaluation systems, Cardiff's QER recommendation on student voice mechanisms, Advance HE's TEF an...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses belonging and student voice evidence: why international wellbeing, friendship formation, and collaborative study are shaped by ordinary academic contact rather than slogans or one-off events. The episode covers everyday community engagement, friendship and collaborative study, DfE franchise arrangements guidance, Jisc's new "None of the above" option, and practi...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses AI feedback and student voice evidence: how universities can use AI feedback without removing teacher judgement, and how assessment evidence connects with student value, belonging and attendance. The episode covers AI feedback design, paid student voice roles, QAA Scotland's review of awarding evidence, HEPI's latest findings on student value and belonging, and...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses feedback evidence: how universities move beyond headline scores and into the student comments, context and action trail underneath them. The episode covers feedback literacy, OfS scrutiny of assessment feedback, NSS 2026 preparation, and why student feedback comments need to be grouped by the kind of action they require. In This Episode - Why assessment and feed...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses belonging, partnership and timing: why welcome week is not enough to be a university's belonging strategy. The episode covers research on first-year introduction week, student voice as partnership, Portsmouth's assessment regulation changes and Westminster's mid-module check-ins. In This Episode - Why welcome week mainly strengthens peer belonging, not staff bel...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses engagement as a design problem. Weak engagement often tells universities something about the conditions they have created, not simply something about student motivation. The episode covers student engagement research, generative AI feedback, Glasgow's assessment and feedback tool and Wonkhe's AI assessment report. In This Episode - Why engagement gaps often poin...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses GenAI disclosure as a trust problem. Students are more likely to disclose AI use when governance feels fair, consistent and credible in real teaching practice. The episode connects research with 739 students to QAA subject benchmark statements, QAA GenAI assessment focus groups and evidence on who completes student evaluations. In This Episode - Why GenAI disclo...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses belonging and retention: why one belonging score is rarely enough to explain who feels connected, who is drifting and what universities should do next. The episode covers a review of 66 studies on belonging, mature student induction, DMU's block teaching evaluation and Jisc's decision to retire Digital Experience Insights. In This Episode - Why belonging is not...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses why student evaluation reports do not improve teaching on their own. The improvement happens in the conversations staff and students have after the data is collected. The episode covers evaluation dialogue, belonging survey validation, UUK quality principles, Jisc Online Surveys changes and how complaint comments often include practical fixes. In This Episode -...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses evaluation design: why staff and students need to co-design feedback instruments before anyone can fully trust the data they produce. The episode connects a six-year evaluation redesign study with OfS evidence requirements, PTES survey design and the risk of comparing scores that are not really comparable. In This Episode - Why a clean dashboard cannot rescue a...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses quality assurance visibility: why students often assume nothing changes when the feedback system is hard to see. The episode covers QAA research on student representation, accreditation visibility, survey benchmarking and the governance work needed to make student voice credible. In This Episode - Why having feedback channels is not the same as having a healthy...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses what to do when student evaluation scores all move together. Halo effects and bias change what the data can tell you, but they do not make student feedback useless. The episode covers correlated evaluation scores, gender stereotypes in teaching recognition, joined-up wellbeing survey practice and Glasgow's MyGrades rollout. In This Episode - What halo effects me...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses academic misconduct, workload and feedback timing: why integrity cases often point upstream to unclear assessment design, deadline pressure and uneven support. The episode connects a study of 3,070 misconduct reflections with evidence on feedback speed, the latest TEF data dashboard and OfS condition E10 on subcontracting. In This Episode - Why misconduct, feedb...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses why low response rates are not mainly a questionnaire-length problem. The real issue is whether students believe the feedback process is credible, useful and worth their time. The episode covers research on teaching evaluation participation, postgraduate feedback, OfS student pulse results and QAA assessment literacy guidance. In This Episode - Why shortening a...

This week, Dr Stuart Grey discusses resilience, teaching design and trust in student voice evidence: why clear goals, active learning and neutral survey practice matter more than another wellbeing signpost. The episode connects research on student resilience with OfS NSS promotion guidance, corrected TEF dashboard calculations, and the practical question of how universities read student comments a...