Maximising Your NSS Return & Insights – Strategy, Action & AI
Hosted in collaboration with evasys:
Location: Online
Date: Thursday, 26 January 2026
Time: 12:00-13:00
Price: Free to AHEP ‘Associate’, ‘Member’, ‘Accredited’ and ‘Fellow’ members
About this session
Join AHEP Consulting and Evasys for a fast-paced, practical webinar designed to help universities strengthen their NSS performance and turn student feedback into meaningful improvement. Drawing on sector expertise and cutting-edge technology, this session offers actionable strategies ahead of NSS 2026.
In just 60 minutes, you’ll learn how to boost response rates, interpret survey data effectively, and use AI to unlock deeper insights from open-text comments. The session includes a live demo of Evasys’s new Student Voice AI tool, showcasing how sentiment and theme analysis can save time and sharpen institutional understanding.
You’ll also hear from a university partner sharing real-world impact how they’ve used NSS data and AI-driven analysis to inform action planning and deliver tangible benefits.
Why attend?
Join AHEP Consulting and Evasys for a practical, fast-paced 60-minute session designed to help universities get the most from their NSS data and make informed improvements ahead of 2026.
By the end of this session, delegates will be able to:
– Understand key strategies for maximising response rates and outcomes in the NSS.
– Learn how to interpret data to identify real areas for improvement.
– See how AI-driven tools can rapidly analyse and surface insight from student comments.
– Leave with practical steps to strengthen their NSS approach ahead of 2026.
– Hear from a university partner showcasing real-world impact, offering authenticity and peer learning.
We look forward to welcoming you to this event!
Details in brief
Venue: Online
Date: Thursday, 29 January
Duration: 12:00-13:00
Price: Free to AHEP ‘Associate’, ‘Member’, ‘Accredited’ and ‘Fellow’ members.
If you have any questions, please email hello@ahep.ac.uk and we will be happy to support.
This quiz is proudly hosted in collaboration with:
Speakers
Martha Horler
AHEP Lead Consultant
AHEP
About Martha
Martha Horler has worked in the UK higher education sector for over two decades, primarily specialising in data strategy, governance, and insight. Her experience spans both institutional roles and consultancy, where she has supported universities, colleges, and small providers to improve their data practices and drive better decision-making. Martha focuses on helping teams use data more effectively—whether that’s through designing impactful student dashboards, supporting HESA and regulatory returns, or delivering staff training on data literacy and data protection. She is passionate about demystifying data and ensuring it becomes meaningful, ethical, and actionable at every level of an institution, enabling organisations to navigate complexity with confidence.
Bruce Johnson
Managing Director
About Bruce
Bruce Johnson, Managing Director of evasys UK, has worked within a range of universities (large and small) for 20+ years, including 14 years heading Student Systems within the Academic Registry at a large Russell Group University. He has significant experience within HE institutions’ academic and professional services, and of managing surveys, survey systems and processes (including evasys), and integration of downstream and upstream systems. He brings an HE perspective to the delivery of our services, with a particular focus on ever-improving service levels and responsiveness. As a previous customer of evasys, Bruce brings a higher education perspective to the delivery of their services, with a particular focus on the continuous improvement of service levels and responsiveness.
This event also welcomes:
About AHEP Consulting
We exist to strengthen and transform professional services in higher education. Our Consultants aren’t outsiders parachuted in; they’re experienced HE professionals who live and breathe the challenges you face. As members of AHEP, they combine deep sector expertise with the clarity and confidence of an external perspective. And because we’re not driven by profit, every surplus goes straight back into our mission: to connect and develop HE professionals for the good of the sector.
About Student Voice and the partnership with evasys
The partnership between evasys – the UK’s leading survey and insights platform and market-leading provider of evaluation and insight solutions to the UK and Irish HE sector – and Student Voice AI delivers a powerful, holistic approach to understanding student engagement. evasys provides a complete, integrated, end-to-end survey process for collecting institutional feedback, while Student Voice AI is a cloud-based software that uses machine learning models, trained exclusively on UK higher education data, to automatically label and analyse open-text student comments with high accuracy. This collaboration transforms feedback collection by combining quantitative survey data with rich, nuanced analysis of qualitative responses. The thematic coding of free-text comments, delivered through interactive evasys dashboards, ensures that every student voice is not only heard but meaningfully understood, allowing institutions to conduct historical and sector-wide benchmarking, demographic analysis, and instantly identify strategic change opportunities that drive significant enhancement to teaching and the overall student experience.”