Working Groups

NEON Working Groups are led by members and bring the widening participation sector together to take forward an agenda in specific areas of access practice.

These groups share practice and shape the national agenda across the widening access landscape. If as a member, you wish to propose and lead a Working Group please contact Grace Imwensi.

Attendance at Working Group meetings is FREE to NEON members. Non-members are welcome to attend but there is a fee of £80 per meeting.

Working Groups

Access and outreach for disabled learners

This Working Group is organised jointly by Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Manchester and The University of West London

Student’s Unions and Widening Access for Effective Partnerships

This Working Group is co-led by the University of East Anglia and King’s College London Students Union.

NEON

Addressing Differential Outcomes for BME Learners

This working group is organised by the University of Kingston.

Establishing evidence and measuring impact

This Working Group is organised jointly by EMWPREP and The University of Sheffield.

Mature Learners

This Working Group is organised by the University of Leicester.

Mentoring to widen access

This working group explores mentoring as a sustained intervention to help widen access to HE.

University of Brighton

Primary Age Outreach

This Working Group will explore the sustainability of early interventions post-Aimhigher.

NEON

Widening Participation for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

This NEON Working Group looks at how to widen access, support retention and encourage success for learners who are refugees or asylum-seekers.

Supporting BTEC Students

This Working Group is organised by Lancaster University.