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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!
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The University of Portsmouth Students’ Union has a vision of creating a positive impact with every Portsmouth student during their time at University.