Insights

“Capturing and reporting on the student voice”

What do we do?

Insights as a department aims to inform Union activity through research and support. We do this through:

• The collection of student feedback;
• The analysis and reporting of external data sets;
• Managing student data and dashboards.

How can we help?

Insights consults on, delivers, and reports on a range of projects, both internal and external. This includes:

• Focus Groups,
• Interactive Surveys,
• Market Research,
• Data Set Analysis.

How to get in touch with us?

Very easily! If you would like to chat to Insights about your data needs; or simply would like to learn more about our role within UPSU, please email us at insights@upsu.net.

Upcoming / Ongoing Projects?

• Democracy Review - ongoing in 2023. The aim of this is to review UPSU's democratic structures and design new processes to help us represent you.
  
• StART Talking Week - coming in May. This is your chance to give feedback on your academic experience this year.
• NSS (National Student Survey) - coming in July. This captures final year undergraduates’ thoughts and opinions on the university, which Insights analyses over the summer to give recommendations to the University and UPSU.

22/23 Academic Year - Insights Reports

StART Talking Week 1 - This survey, promoted at the start of 2023, focuses on academic feedback.

Have a look at this report if you're interested in learning about faculty specific feedback from students. 

Annual Survey November 2022 - This survey, focusing on UPSU's new Strategy release in 2023, builds upon previous research.

Have a look at this report if you're interested in student satisfaction / priorities or the new UPSU Strategy.

Archived Reports

• NSS July 2022
• StART Annual Overview May 2022
  
• Housing Survey April 2022
• StART Talking Week, March 2022
• Annual Survey March 2022
• StART Talking Week, January 2022
• StART Talking Week, November 2021
• Annual Survey November 2021
• StART Talking Week January 2020
• Timetabling January 2020
• Sports Delivery 
  
• Great Big Student Survey October 2019
• StART Talking Week October 2019
• NSS 2019
• Sabbatical Officer Review
• Purple Wednesday Focus Groups
• Shop Services Focus Groups
• Content Capture December 2018
• Stressless Focus Groups
• StART Talking Week November 2018
• Remote Studying Students
• Student Groups Consultation
• Technology Focus Group
• NSS 2018 - Qualitative/Quantitative
• Sports Centre Consultation

As a reminder, if you’re interested in learning more about how Insights can support you, or what we do within UPSU, please email insights@upsu.net. We look forward to hearing from you!