Peer Support Networks: Fostering a Sense of Belonging

Peer support networks are a key pert of academic development for learning and teaching at Strathclyde and a developing part of the provision at GCU. In 2020, an cross-institutional team of colleagues secured a Good Practice Grant from Advance HE to evaluate the experience of staff engaging in peer support networks and create a toolkit to support educational developers across the sector to initiate or enhance peer support provision in their own contexts. The research followed an ‘evidence informed’, mixed-methods approach with data drawn from questionnaires and focus groups. This interactive resource contains all of the outputs developed during the project including the final project report, a video and podcast, a curated set of resources to support the initiation and enhancement peer support networks in a range of settings.