42 participants from student and core stakeholder groups
supporting teaching and learning across seven member
institutions of the Irish Universities Association (IUA) took
part in six focus group sessions in June 2021. The aim was to
capture the “lived experience” of the Covid-19 situation, how
changes in practice brought about by lockdown are being
embedded into mainstream practice, and key lessons for moving
forward. This Insight outlines common themes that emerged
across all the groups and identifies emerging areas for greater
inter-institutional collaboration, while recognising that this is a
snapshot of contextualised experiences shared and highlighted
by the groups in June 2021.