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

扩大对医学的参与(WP)对于帮助最大限度地减少在医学专业中缺乏代表性至关重要(Patterson and Price，2017)。研究表明，由于社交网络较少(Friend，2021年)，WP学生在大学里苦苦挣扎。过渡时期，如安置的开始，已被确定为一个特别的挑战(Curtis和Smith，2020)。因此，大学应该支持这些学生获得大学和医疗专业所需的社会资本(Thiele et al.，2016；Friend，2021)。这项研究将在教育学院和南安普顿大学医学院之间进行。这项研究将是一篇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医学生成长和维持他们的网络的影响。将实施准试验性交叉设计。本文将运用社会网络分析和焦点小组等定性方法来论证这一干预措施的影响，并运用变革框架理论和关系资本理论来设计、实施和评估这一干预措施。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式，以支持未来的WP医学生融入他们的网络。为该大学其他课程的学生提供额外的福利，这些课程也存在显著的WP差距。有能力在国内和国际上改编成以网络为基础的干预措施，以支持所有大学生。

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.