Work. Live. Play. Learn: Understanding Student Experiences – Ryan Menner

BIO: Ryan Menner is a Research Associate in Business Co-Design, the Dean’s Unit, University of Sydney Business School. Ryan co-leads the qualitative research project Work. Live. Play. Learn (WLPL). WLPL focuses on USYD Business students’ higher education experiences. The project draws on video and audio recordings of conversations with students about their experiences of higher education. Ryan established and leads the affiliated One Sydney. Many People WLPL which aims to foreground Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on the student experience of learning. Ryan is an active member of the Connected Learning at Scale Project and the Disruptive Innovations in Business Education Research Group.

SESSION OVERVIEW: This session focuses on an annual project run by Business Co-Design at University of Sydney Business School: Work. Live. Play. Learn (WLPL). WLPL aims to contextualise understandings of the student experience in the broader influences (work, live, play) in students lives. In collecting qualitative audio-visual data we are able to represent student narratives in ways that are meaningful and dialogical to our student cohort/s. As an embedded research project, the insights inform educators, support staff and decision-makers around curriculum and program design. 
 
The session is both a “how-to”, providing useful tips around collecting qualitative student data and insights, and a “here’s what we heard”, with the aim of generating discussion and connection among session participants.