Previous Projects
Since Future Talent launched almost 90 DSE colleagues have participated and delivered a variety of different projects; all helping to deliver an outstanding student experience.
Details of the projects that were completed in 2025 can be found below:
Creating a Sense of Belonging for Black Heritage Students
Supporting UoM Sport’s EEDI strategic priority to ‘create and embed equality, equity, diversity and inclusion across all areas of our work’; the purpose of this project was to lead on the development of stakeholder engagement and user feedback, to understand ways of creating environments where black students feel comfortable and confident accessing activity and creating a sense of belonging with UoM Sports programmes. The project team created and conducted a survey, focus group and 1:1 interviews with students and produced a summary report with recommendations to their project sponsor.
Creating a Sense of Belonging for Black heritage Students in UoM Sport.pdf
Student Expectations for a New Central Hub
The purpose of this project was to gather input from students to find out how they would like to use space in the new central amenity hub which is being developed as part of the residences redevelopment in Fallowfield. Feedback from students was collected via a survey, as well as focus groups and pop-up stands. The project team produced a report with recommendations which represented the student voice and what they would like to see from the new facility.
Sport Facility Utilisation
The purpose of this project was to better understand the ways in which the sports facilities are used within the university, to allow the UoM Sports Team to develop programmes to support more participation in the future. The project team analysed pre-existing timetable and bookings data. They also conducted a survey and had in-person discussions with students to gather information on their perspectives on facility utilisation. The team produced a report which included operational, strategic and communication recommendations for ways to make improvements.