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The Big Read collaboration between Kingston University, The University of Wolverhampton, Edge Hill University and the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), 2018-19

February 2nd, 2021

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  February 2nd, 2021

This paper outlines the experience of four universities who collaborated on a pre-arrival shared- reading project, The Big Read, in 2018/19. They did so primarily to promote student engagement and retention at their respective institutions but also to ease transition into higher education, particularly for first generation students, to promote staff connectedness and to provide a USP for their institution. The paper covers all the associated processes from isolating the respective aims of the collaborators to the choosing and sharing of a single agreed title. In analysing the outcomes, recommendations for future such projects of cross-institutional participation are made.