Feedback Engagement Fellows

The Feedback Engagement Fellow project represents a collaboration between BILT and the Bristol SU to improve the collective experience and engagement with feedback activity at the University. In 2025-2026, 30 student fellows are helping to refine and shape the engagement with feedback in their respective schools, as well as exploring cross-faculty priorities.

In 2023/24, the Curriculum Enhancement Programme worked with Student Fellows to deliver Fast-track feedback workshops to 16 UG programmes.

An outline of the design and impact of the project can be found by following this link.

A subsequent pilot project in 2024/5 saw 9 Student Fellows working to help students in each of the three faculties to use their feedback engagement as a reflective practice opportunity and engage more with the Bristol Skills Profile. Some of the approaches which students undertook included setting up pop-up stalls for peers, developing and creating digital resources and marketing materials to increase the profile of feedback activity, as well as coaching peers on feedback reflection.

In 2025-2026, following the successes of the project, the programme expanded to include 30 Student Fellows, with the ambition of having a Fellow helping to develop the feedback culture in each school/centre within the University.

Further outlines of this phase of the partnership project can be found on the BILT blog.

“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”.

Nathaniel Joyce

Feedback Engagement Fellow

“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!”

Mia Stevens

SU UG Sabbatical Officer

“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.”

Sheila Amici-Dargan

Professor of Life Sciences Education

Feedback Engagement Fellows

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