East Midlands Widening Participation Research and Evaluation Partnership (EMWPREP)
The East Midlands Widening Participation Research and Evaluation Partnership (EMWPREP) is a collaboration of Midlands based universities (Bishop Grosseteste University, De Montfort University, Keele University, Loughborough University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Derby, the University of Leicester, the University of Lincoln and the University of Nottingham) that provides a targeting, monitoring and evaluation service for the outreach initiatives delivered by each partner.
In pooling resources the members of EMWPREP are able to gain access to various services including:
- Monitoring and evaluation of institutions’ outreach programmes
- Evaluation of discrete outreach activities
- Targeting students for outreach activity
- Analysing partner institutions’ student data
- Monitoring and Evaluation Database co-ordination
- Designing and implementing bespoke research and data methodologies as per partnership requirements
- Maintaining a bespoke national postcode database to provide key socio-economic and demographic information on various groups
- Undertaking literature reviews
- Delivering presentations to disseminate research findings
