How we help
Looking for tailored research solutions designed to meet your specific objectives? Our team of higher education research specialists will support you throughout the process, from project design, through data collection and analysis, to reporting and dissemination. We’ll offer expertise and advice to ensure your project meets your objectives and delivers impact.
Below are just a handful of the areas we can help with.
Student recruitment
As the financial cost of higher education rises and students choose alternative learning routes, understanding the nuanced factors involved in student decision making is more important than ever.
Using our wealth of experience exploring learner and consumer decision making in the HE sector, we can help you better understand student choices using qualitative or statistical techniques such as trade-offs and segmentation.
Student experience
Student recruitment and retention are hugely dependent upon the experience institutions provide. From the learning experience to support services and accommodation, there are many factors which both influence student wellbeing and overall experience.
We can help you better understand what your students think of their time with you. Using a variety of mixed-methods such as deep dive qualitative research with students and staff, online communities or quantitative surveys, we’ll help you optimise performance and provide the best experience for your students.
Employability and outcomes
Higher Education is about equipping students with the right skills and experience to move into the next phase of their life.
We can help you evaluate course performance, capture graduates’ outcomes, explore the factors that influence these and identify changes needed to meet the requirements of the graduate labour market. Through our work designing bespoke outcome surveys for universities, conducting employer research addressing skills gaps and our ability to interpret a range of labour market datasets, we are uniquely placed to bring you actionable insight on graduate employability.
International partnerships
With the internationalisation of HE, it’s crucial that the UK HE sector forges partnerships with other nations to increase cultural understanding and support international student recruitment and development of the sector.
We have conducted a range of studies which evaluate partnership programmes and inform portfolio strategies, helping guide institutions and policy in the UK and abroad.
Graduate Index
Collect insight on the broader outcomes that graduates achieve with Graduate Index.
Using seven social and personal measures, Graduate Index helps you understand what success really means to your graduates, and the wider impact of the higher education experience you offer.
“IFF were fantastic to work with. They ensured through effective communication and collaboration that our brief was followed. The final output was carefully crafted to our specification…it was clear IFF were keen to meet our needs. Furthermore, the team continued to offer support in ensuring that the research could make an impact within the institution with the offer of workshop sessions.”
Dr Anthony Mansfield SFHEA, Senior Strategic Planning Manager, UEL
