How we help
Looking for tailored research solutions designed to meet your specific objectives? Our team of HE research specialists will support with you throughout the process, from project design, through data collection, analysis, to reporting and dissemination, offering 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 appropriate 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.
Graduate Outcomes and Employability
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.
“It is a real pleasure working with IFF on the largest annual social survey in the UK. Their ability to adapt, attention to detail and adherence to principles of good practice in research have led to the establishment of a strong foundation for Graduate Outcomes. Good communication within the organisation and with HESA as their client has enabled us to tackle challenges in a timely manner while meeting critical deadlines. Being a solution-oriented organisation, IFF have made a significant contribution towards the successful customisation of the CATI system, in order to meet the most complex requirements of this survey.”
Neha Agarwal, Head of Research & Insight, HESA
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.
Working alongside the British Council we have conducted several studies which evaluate partnership programmes and inform portfolio strategies, helping guide institutions and policy in the UK and abroad.
