Working towards an inclusive learning culture: Exploring the experiences BAME students who live at home and commute to the university: how does it affect the engagement of BAME students with the university and their learning?

The reasons for the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) poorer learning experience, the degree attainment gap and their reduced employability are complex and multifactorial (Richardson 2008 a & b; Allen, (2016);Newbold et al, (2011). This inequality that may be compounded in the case of those disproportionately high numbers of BAME students who also commute to the LBU campus (Thomas & Jone (2017). This poster outlines findings from a qualitative project at Leeds Beckett University (LBU) focusing on commuting BAME undergraduates and explores how their needs have been addressed through a range of cultural, infrastructural and curricular interventions generated from ideas from the students themselves. It explores the key issues addressed by the university in partnership with the group of commuting BAME students.