Available on Spotify (or other podcast platform of your choice) – Grit CEO, Ellie, on the Champions Coffee podcast - a series of 10-15 minute live virtual conversations (with virtual coffee) with leading industry professionals in the education or student success space. Released November 2024

The Nottingham Institute of Education in Social Work Today on evaluating Grit’s work creating culture change in local authority teams – how the transformation of mindsets lead to better relationships among teams, and with the young people and families they work with. Published October 2024

A CYP Now Case Study on our programmes with staff teams in local authorities, how we impact the way staff teams operate and how we impact the way frontline workers engage with young people. 18 months on, participants are reporting lasting effects of their training. Published October 2024

As the new academic year begins Tania Struetzel, Head of Student Success at Solent University, writes about working with Grit in positioning support, addressing issues around undergraduate wellbeing and ensuring that students have a successful start to university. Published September 2024

We know that being attitude-ready can make or break the student experience. How we can support students to be attitude-ready before they fully launch themselves on their university journey? Read our post on HE Professional. Published July 2024

Ellie Garraway on how, in the face of the latest imperatives, the constant churn of demands, the moods of staff, pupils (and ourselves), leaders can maintain the ability to be reflective in the day-to-day. Published on the Big Education Rethinking Leadership blog, April 2024

Co-authored with David Woolley, Grit Trustee and Director of Student and Community Engagement at Nottingham Trent University, this Wonkhe blog makes the case for thinking about students’ transition through, not just into, university. Published April 2024

A HE Professional Webinar with Grit CEO, Ellie Garraway, talking about our coaching methodology. What is coaching and why is it useful when working with students? Is coaching a mindset or just a set of tools? Filmed March 2024. Please note, HE Professional subscription required to access the webinar.

Reframing Student Support. Grit blog for HE Professional on creating integrated, student-centred support in universities. Co-authored with Tania Struetzel, Head of Student Success at Solent University. Published February 2024

Re-thinking engagement & the staff student relationship in personal tutoring. Read our Higher Education Policy Institute blog, co-authored with Rachael O’Connor, Academic Lead for Personal Tutoring, University of Leeds. Published February 2024

Sparqs (Student Partnerships in Quality Scotland) interview Grit about our work in universities. We talk about the power of community and belonging, what we learnt at the 2023 RAISE conference, Students of Colour and Black Leaders, and much more. Published January 2024

“Time and again, young people talk about the impact made by a teacher who doesn’t just wield authority or judgement but also listens and challenges.” Mark Goodwin in the TES writes about how Grit is supporting a coaching approach to a rise in challenging behaviour. Published January 2024

Grit on Wonkhe. With the massification and diversification of the student population, how can we support students to navigate increasingly complex decisions, to own their choices and empower them to actively create experiences that get them where they want to go? Published January 2024

The Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Collaborative Outreach Partnership (DANCOP) is a regional collaboration of universities and colleges. Here they report on the successes of the Future Leaders programme where Grit worked with year 10 students of Black heritage. Published November 2023

“We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience.” Part 2 of Beyond Employability on the Higher Education Policy Institute blog, co-authored with Dr Doug Cole of Nottingham Trent University. Published September 2023.

With the student body in universities set for more sudden and more rapid expansion and change, on HE Professional we discuss some simple things to create connection, belonging and the sense of feeling part of something bigger. Published July 2023.

Read our May 2023 Higher Education Policy Institute blog on why it is the challenging and uncomfortable conversations that can disrupt accepted myths about how students and the universities themselves should be, and can make for a truly transformational student experience.

Co-authored with Doug Cole, Associate Director of Employability at Nottingham Trent University, our April 2023 Higher Education Policy Institute blog looks at supporting students to prepare for the world of work in an age of remote working, AI and portfolio careers.

Student loneliness and belonging, and the importance of interacting with students through relationship: a Feb 2023 Higher Education Policy Institute blog post co-authored with Louise Banahene, Director of Educational Engagement at the University of Leeds.

On the Portsmouth University ‘Education Matters’ blog series read about the difference Grit has been making, with students and with staff. Co-authored by Provost, Professor Sherria Hoskins. Published January 2023.

On Wonkhe read Grit’s take on how, as conventional notions of what it means to belong to a university diverge, we can support students' becoming, and belonging, on their terms. Published October 2022.

Grit joins the Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE). Read their blog about how Grit is finding kindred spirits in Higher Education. Published September 2022.

Kathryn Boulton, Corporate Director Children and Family Services in Redcar & Cleveland, reflects on her experience of the Grit workshop on the Association of Directors of Children's Services blog. Published June 2022

Warwickshire County Council report on the four-day Grit workshop with young people at Hartshill Academy in Nuneaton. Published June 2022. Read all about it here

Grit CEO Ellie Garraway looks at what it takes to work with young people from a place of non-judgement and what it can achieve. Published June 2022. Read it on the Diverse Educators blog here

How to tackle the lack of confidence that prevents so many students from using university careers support services and employability programmes. Read our April 2022 piece on Wonkhe.

Grit CEO, Ellie Garraway, writes for the Diverse Educators blog on why we should give the power back to young people so they can reclaim their potential. Published March 2022. Read it here.

Warwickshire County Council celebrates some of the remarkable successes of the 34-strong schools programme Grit delivered for staff and students across the county in 2021. Published Feb 2022. Read more here.

Read our piece, published by Wonkhe, on what Personal Tutors can do when the reality of university life doesn’t match up to students’ many expectations. Published September 21 available here.

Covid and emotional learning: building back better. As we re-imagine the HE experience, there’s a huge opportunity to invest more in emotional learning. Read our July 21 piece for the UUP Foundation Student Futures Commission here.

The Higher Education Policy Institute, the UK's only independent think tank devoted to higher education, has published a Grit blog about our work with Foundation Year students. It is co-authored with Sal Jarvis, Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Westminster. Read it here - published June 21.

Wonkhe has published a Grit blog on our Black Leaders Programme. Co-authored with ex- Nottingham Trent Students' Union VP Afua Acheampong, it tells the story of the Programme’s genesis and the difference it’s been making. Read the article here as published June 21.

We’re thrilled to be alongside our friends at Nottingham Trent University in a case study produced by Universities UK It is part of a series highlighting initiatives that support student wellbeing, transitions and skills development. Published June 21, read about it in full here.

Co-authored by Les Ebdon (former Director of OFFA) and David Woolley (Director of Student Engagement at NTU), this article details how Grit adapted its offer during the pandemic. Read more here about how our impact on resilience and belonging has translated to digital platforms. Published June 20.