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Research

HESA’s core mission is to support the advancement of higher education across all nations of the UK through the data it collects, assures and disseminates.

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Strategy and impact

Our Research strategy describes how we undertake research to advance public knowledge and understanding of UK higher education, and to improve our own outputs in the public interest. 

Our review of the Impact of research illustrates how we are meeting those aims and aspirations.

Research topics

Data quality

Coding assurance and statistical weighting.

Ready for the weekend? How data relating to the Graduate Outcomes survey process can be used in assessing the validity of subjective wellbeing information (2022-09-21)

Keeping track: Can linking higher education records tell us anything about the quality of parental education data? (2022-07-05)

Assessing the quality of further and interim study data collected in the Graduate Outcomes survey (2022-06-21)

Exploration of statistical weighting in the Graduate Outcomes Survey: technical report (2021-07-20)

Graduate Outcomes - A Summary of the Year Two SOC Coding Assurance (2021-04-29)

Graduate Outcomes SOC coding – Independent Verification Analysis Report (2021-04-29)

Quality matters: The Census and HESA Widening Participation data (2021-03-16)

Should we weight? Year one of the Graduate Outcomes survey (2020-05-21)