The Big Read Collaboration between Kingston University, the University of Wolverhampton, Edge Hill University, and the University of the West of Scotland, 2018-2019

Alison Baverstock; Jackie Steinitz; Tanuja Shelar; Kelly Squires; Nazira Karodia; Rebecca Butler; Sara Smith; Natia Sopromadze; Sara Crowley; Alison Clark; Maya Hutchinson; Rebecca Holderness; Clare Carney; Jeanette Castle; Richard Jefferies

doi:10.1163/18784712-03004001

The Big Read Collaboration between Kingston University, the University of Wolverhampton, Edge Hill University, and the University of the West of Scotland, 2018-2019

Alison Baverstock^*, Jackie Steinitz, Tanuja Shelar, Kelly Squires, Nazira Karodia, Rebecca Butler, Sara Smith, Natia Sopromadze, Sara Crowley, Alison Clark, Maya Hutchinson, Rebecca Holderness, Clare Carney, Jeanette Castle, Richard Jefferies

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This paper outlines the experience of four universities that collaborated on a pre-arrival shared reading project, the Big Read, in 2018/2019. They did so primarily to promote student engagement and retention and also to ease the transition into higher education, particularly for first-generation students, to promote staff connectedness, and to provide a USP (unique selling point) for their institution. The paper covers all the associated processes, from isolating the respective aims of the collaborators to the choosing and sharing of a single agreed title. In analysing the outcomes, recommendations are made for future cross-institutional projects of this kind.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	34-65
Number of pages	32
Journal	LOGOS-JOURNAL OF THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMMUNITY
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03004001
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 19 Nov 2020

Keywords

higher education
pre-arrival shared reading
transition
welcome
Freshers
common-read

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Baverstock, A., Steinitz, J., Shelar, T., Squires, K., Karodia, N., Butler, R., Smith, S., Sopromadze, N., Crowley, S., Clark, A., Hutchinson, M., Holderness, R., Carney, C., Castle, J., & Jefferies, R. (2020). The Big Read Collaboration between Kingston University, the University of Wolverhampton, Edge Hill University, and the University of the West of Scotland, 2018-2019. LOGOS-JOURNAL OF THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMMUNITY, 31(3), 34-65. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03004001

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The Big Read Collaboration between Kingston University, the University of Wolverhampton, Edge Hill University, and the University of the West of Scotland, 2018-2019. / Baverstock, Alison; Steinitz, Jackie; Shelar, Tanuja et al.
In: LOGOS-JOURNAL OF THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMMUNITY, Vol. 31, No. 3, 19.11.2020, p. 34-65.

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