Design and Conduct an Educational Activity and Investigate whether it facilitates the growth of effective social networks to support Undergraduate BM6

扩大医学参与（WP）对于帮助最大限度地减少医学专业代表性的缺乏至关重要（Patterson和Price， 2017）。研究表明，由于社交网络较少，WP学生在大学里挣扎（Friend, 2021）。过渡时期，如安置开始，已被确定为一个特殊的挑战（柯蒂斯和史密斯，2020）。因此，大学必须支持这些学生获得大学和医学专业所需的社会资本（Thiele等人，2016;Friend, 2021）。这项研究将是南安普顿大学教育学院和医学院之间的跨学科研究。研究将是一篇3篇论文的混合方法论文，旨在设计、实施和评估基于网络的干预对支持WP医学学生发展和维持其网络的影响。一个准实验交叉设计将被实施。社会网络分析和定性方法，如焦点小组将被用来证明这一干预的影响。变革理论框架和关系资本理论将被用于设计、实施和评估这一干预。这项研究的影响可能包括支持WP学生实现他们的目标。提供以研究为基础的模型，以支持未来的WP医科学生扩展他们的网络。为大学其他课程的学生提供额外的好处，这些课程也有显著的WP划分。有能力适应国内和国际网络为基础的干预，以支持所有的大学生。

Widening Participation (WP) in Medicine is essential to help minimise the lack of representation in themedical profession (Patterson and Price, 2017). Research suggests that WP students struggle atuniversity due to having fewer social networks (Friend, 2021). Transition periods such as the start ofplacement have been identified as a particular challenge (Curtis and Smith, 2020). Therefore, it isimperative that universities support these students in obtaining the social capital needed at universityand in the medical profession (Thiele et al., 2016; Friend, 2021). The research will be interdisciplinarybetween the School of Education and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. Theresearch will be a 3-paper mixed methods thesis, aimed to design, implement, and evaluate the impactof a network-based intervention on supporting WP medicine students with growing and sustaining theirnetworks. A quasi- experimental cross-over design will be implemented. Social Network Analysis andqualitative methods such as focus groups will be employed to evidence the impact of this intervention.The Theory of Change framework and relational capital theory will be used to design, implement andevaluate of this intervention. The impact of this research could include supporting WP students inachieving their objects. Delivering a research-based model to support future WP medical students ingrowing their networks. Providing additional benefits to students on other courses at the university whichalso have a significant WP divide. Has the ability to be adapted nationally and internationally into anetwork-based intervention to support all university students.