Nathaniel Joyce, Student Feedback Engagement Fellow: “Effective feedback is not only an instruction but a dialogue. Co-creation as a student broadens our view of who should be involved in providing and designing feedback processes. Students provide insights drawn from lived experience and can shape inclusive, psychologically safe, and supportive feedback engagement at Bristol”.
Thirty Feedback Engagement Fellows (FEFs) have been appointed across the University as part of a collaborative project for 2025/2026 between Bristol SU and the Bristol Institute of Learning and Teaching.
What’s a Feedback Engagement Fellow?
A Feedback Engagement Fellow is a student who will be sharing insights and expertise on feedback activity with peers and within their school and faculty community. Using co-created activities adapted from the Developing Engagement with Feedback Toolkit, Fellows will plan, deliver and evaluate in-person and online workshops to other students to continue developing a positive institutional culture around feedback engagement.
What does this mean for things like feedback literacy?
Students’ experiences are central to the co-creation approach we value in this project. Exploration of the marking criteria may be one such piece of co-creation, alongside sessions on the Knowing, Acting and Being of feedback literacy.
As an example, FEFs may choose to develop a 30-minute workshop on action-planning in response to feedback for first year undergraduate students in Consolidation Week of TB2, utilising feedback from TB1 units, or this may be delivered as weekly drop in-session of 15-minutes after a whole-cohort lecture.
Sheila Amici-Dargan, Professor of Life Sciences Education “Our Feedback Engagement Fellows project empowers students from a range of disciplines to play active roles in changing the culture of university feedback. We aim to co-create a shared responsibility between staff and students for generating academic feedback that is precise, actionable and supportive.”
There’s already work on enhancing assessment and feedback in my school/faculty
Fellows will benefit from any opportunities to collaborate with academic staff in schools who are already interested or active in feedback engagement as well as feedback design. There are already many excellent practices and cultures in schools and faculties which are implemented effectively, and this project looks to complement and support these activities.
How does this work between different schools and faculties?
Research suggests disciplinary differences are important to consider when recognising feedback engagement and effectiveness. We hope to make use of the new three-faculty structure at the University to empower our Fellows to collaborate, develop and disseminate effective approaches to help develop the culture of feedback engagement.
Why is this an exciting time for feedback engagement at the University?
Mia Stevens, SU Undergraduate Sabbatical Officer: “It’s such a privilege to be part of a project that enhances co-creation between students and staff. The appointed fellows are such knowledgeable and dedicated students, and they are already offering significant insight and creative ideas to strengthen feedback engagement at Bristol. Whilst there are already fantastic examples of co-creation within individual programmes, this collaboration between the SU and BILT takes that spirit to a university-wide level. Furthermore, by including this project in our SU-University Executive Board (UEB) agreement, we’ve been able to secure the institutional support that’s essential for ensuring the longevity and impact of this exciting work!”
Ros O’Leary, Head of BILT “Feedback is such an important part of learning, being able to strengthen student approaches to engaging with feedback seems an essential part of student success. And to do this through a project designed and led by students themselves makes it even more impactful.”
Want to know more or get involved?
Contact: academic-development-team@bristol.ac.uk
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