Key details
Marisa Bartoli
Quality Officer
I first joined the University of Greenwich as a mature overseas student in LL.B. (Hons) Law with Sociology in 1998. Since then, I have continued studying and have held various roles from Student Ambassador, Mentoring Project Officer, Lecturer in Criminology and Law and presently as Quality Officer. As part of my research for my EdD, I delivered various talks at conferences in the UK and Malta about the importance of investing in support programmes to tackle student retention. This area of research remains a huge interest of mine and time permitting, one that I wish to pursue further in future.
Recognition
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Research / Scholarly interests
The welfare and wellbeing of mature students, particularly overseas students is very close to my heart. For a time, I was the Mentoring Project University for the University as part of GET. This scheme was extremely successful and as a result I was asked by the Faculty (FLAS) to create a pre-induction programme for mature, BME and non standard students. This resulted in a project called Flying Start which ran for a number of years.
SRT won a bid to set up a retention project to offer support to failing first year students, giving them a second chance to succeed. I was chosen and to set up and run a project which I entitled SMART – Student Mentoring and Retention Team. The scheme was resulted in a large number of students benefitting hugely from this support and was hailed as good practice and innovative by Matrix.
Key funded projects
SRT won a bid to set up a retention project to offer support to failing first year students, giving them a second chance to succeed. I was chosen to set up and run a project which I entitled SMART – Student Mentoring and Retention Team. The scheme resulted in a large number of students benefitting hugely from this support and was hailed as good practice and innovative by Matrix.