EdD Student blog: Shelley McLetchie-Holder

Shelley McLetchie- Holder, a current student on the EdD programme has had her IFS published in Nurse Education Today. Shelley’s IFS focused on the experiences of Black undergraduate students as personal tutees; her main question was: What factors impact on the academic performance of Black BSc pre-registration students as personal tutees at university? As a personal tutor herself, Shelley was keen to gauge the experiences of these students studying in a predominantly White institution.

Key highlights included the need to support first year students from diverse cultural backgrounds to help their transition to HE and the requirement for institutions to resource culturally competent tutoring and support services for ethnically diverse students to thrive. The findings draw attention to the need for further scrutiny of the personal tutoring system with application of an intersectional approach.

The article can be accessed here.

Prior to this, Shelley also had her MOE 2 published in Times Higher Education. As one of few Black women academics in her Faculty, Shelley undertook a small-scale study exploring the experiences of other Black women academics and outlined lessons she drew from other Black women academics and explained how institutions can best support these women.

This article can be accessed here.