Projects at my previous insitutions include: 

• Leader: Raising Awareness Raising Aspiration (RARA) (Grant: HEFCE £0.5 Million) 

  This project involves working in a partnership led by the University of Sheffield, with King’s College London and the University of Portsmouth. This project seeks to redevelop personal tutoring practices at each institution with the aim to reduce the unexplained attainment gap experienced by students from BME and lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
   

• Leader: Should I stay, or Should I go? (Grant: HEFCE £10,000)
  A research report into student mobility and credit transfer and recommendations for institutions and the sector. This project (research
  report attached) sought to explore from the perspective of students, the potential implications of government proposals around easier credit transfer. Partnership with 7 HEI’s across the North, the White Rose Consortium, and Yorkshire Universities.
   
• Grant Author: Recognising Equivalent Qualifications (Grant: HEFCE £50,000)
  A project which sought to build greater recognition of the skills and abilities of BTEC students through a cultural exchange between paired FE colleges and university faculties and pedagogical developments. Partnership with Barnsley College and 11 Schools, HEPP+SY (NCOP), and Pearson.
   
• Grant Author & Post-Award Evaluator: Developing Design Consultants for the
  Future (DDCF) (Grant: HEFCE: £50,000)
  This project sought to employ new tools in the learning and teaching of design, to respond to strategic needs and industrial strategy
  developments.
   
• Grant Author & Post-Award Evaluator: Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research
  Projects (Grant: £50,000)
  This project sought to introduce second year undergraduate students to interdisciplinary research through summer projects.
   
• Co-PI - Beyond The Classroom: Supporting Student Outcomes (AdvanceHE Collaborative Development Fund: £10,000)

As a member of the Uinversity Teaching Academy I teach on the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE (PGCert LTHE), and Master of Arts in Higher Education. 

Books

Samuel Dent. Ciaran Burke. Anna Mountford-Zimdars. (Eds.) (2022) Theory of Change: Debates and Applications of a Theory of Change to Access and Participation in Higher Education, Emerald Publishing

Samuel Dent. (2020) Recognising Students who Care for Children While Studying, Emerald Publishing 

Samuel Dent, Laura Lane, Tony Strike, Eds: Collaboration, Communities and Competition: International Perspectives from the Academy. 07/2017; Sense.
 

Book Chapters

Samuel Dent: Introduction: Using Meso-Level Interventions to Reconcile the Macro and Micro to Resolve ‘Wicked Issues’. Collaboration, Communities and Competition: International Perspectives from the Academy, Edited by Samuel Dent, Laura Lane, Tony Strike, 07/2017: chapter 6: pages 93-106; Sense.

Journal Articles

Samuel Dent. (2022) The Paradox of student support policies: The experiences of students who care for children while studying, Access, Vol 10. Issue 1 https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/ceehe/access-critical-explorations-of-equity-in-higher-education

Samuel Dent. (2019). Book Review: Bren Neale, What Is Qualitative Longitudinal Research? Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794119880404 

Samuel Dent: Institutional Ethnography: Care in Higher Education. Sage Research Cases. DOI:10.4135/978144627305014555097 
 

Reports

Kate Cuthbert, Emily McIntosh, Sally Andrews, Samuel Dent, Jill Hanson & Jameelia Stephenson (2023) Beyond The Classroom: Supporting Student Outcomes – Institutional case studie, AdvanceHE Collaborative Development Fund 2022-23 https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/membership/all-member-benefit-projects/collaborative-development-fund/beyond-classroom-supporting-student-outcomes 

Samuel Dent, Hugh Mather, Jessica Nightingale, & Tony Strike (2017); Should I stay, or Should I Go? Student Demand for Credit Transfer, Recommendations for Policy and Practice.