I always love a 'passion' project and this research with Karen Gravett & Rola Ajjawi has been just that. Theoretically we critically unpacked 'student belonging' but now we have launched our website belongingtouniversity.co.uk with free downloadable resources for PD. University of Surrey ESRC IAA SRHE

Can belonging be made in the everyday micro-moments of university? What happens when students and staff experience senses of non-belonging? Our website belongingtouniversity.co.uk includes downloadable questions, images and ideas to help discuss University of Surrey ESRC IAA Prof Sarah O' Shea Rola Ajjawi SRHE

Are you interested in how students understand and experience belonging? Do you discuss belonging with colleagues and students? Our website belongingtouniversity.co.uk is now available including free discussion resources for theory-practice University of Surrey ESRC IAA Prof Sarah O' Shea Rola Ajjawi SRHE

Join the final CHERA seminar on the sociology of teaching and learning about relation pedagogies by Karen Gravett! The seminar is next Monday (May 20) at 9am UK time, 4pm HK time 📢 HKU SCAPE Register here: hku.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Yifei (Scott) Liang On April 29 at 4-5pm HK time (8am UK time), we have the absolute pleasure of hosting Margaret Bearman in person at HKU SCAPE! 😊 Margaret will give a hybrid seminar about teaching and learning in the times of #GenAI

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📢📢📢 new job opportunity! We are looking for an awesome person to join the CRADLE: Assessment. Digital. Learning. team. It's an ongoing Level B/C research-only position, focussing on assessment and/or digital learning in higher education.

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How do students create meaningful connections? In this article we advocate for critical discussions that embrace the multiple ways students belong. Very happy our paper has been chosen for this award. Thank you Teaching in Higher Education (TiHE) Rola Ajjawi Prof Sarah O' Shea SRHE

How do you define Artificial Intelligence? It's notoriously contested. Rola Ajjawi and I give it a red-hot go - with tilt towards healthcare education - what do you think? …epublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Delighted that our article 'Students, community and belonging: an investigation of student experience across six European countries' has been published in the latest issue of Higher Education Research and Development

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How do educational technologies facilitate, enable and constrain matters of care? Reminded today of this thought-provoking article unpacking care with, through, and against edtech Learning, Media and Technology doi.org/10.1080/174398…

👩‍🎓This study challenges views of belonging, emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of how diverse student experiences shape their sense of inclusion. Karen Gravett University of Surrey Rola Ajjawi Deakin University Prof Sarah O' Shea Charles Sturt University

Open access here 👉🔗tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our CFP is now open! We warmly welcome submissions for research papers, symposia, and posters from postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners in HE research. Visit srhe.ac.uk/srhe-internati… to find out more. Closing date 15 May 2024 #SRHE2024

What can affect theory offer higher education studies? In this article, we explore the affective uncertainty of teaching and learning encounters, and the implications of attuning to affect in understanding the politics of the everyday doi.org/10.1080/030750…

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Special issue of Teaching in Higher Education (TiHE)

#Precarity and illusions of certainty in #HigherEd ucation #Teaching

Editors: Peter Kahn Marie-Pierre Moreau & me Dr Jessica Gagnon

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Exciting news: I will host an online seminar series about the sociology of teaching and learning in #HigherEd for CHERA! HKU SCAPE

We have four experts talking about student partnership, AI, knowledge and relational pedagogies. Register below!

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Thank you for the invite HKU SCAPE Juuso Henrik Nieminen CHERA. I am looking forward to thinking together about connections, belonging, learning and teaching practices, and who and what matters in higher education

Really enjoyed this blog (and article)
thinking about AI from a relational (and affective) approach Rola Ajjawi Margaret Bearman What might a meaningful AI interaction look like? bera.ac.uk/blog/rethinkin…

“Pedagogies of mattering…consider the impact of a broader range of actors upon learning and teaching… that constitute the material mattering of learning and teaching as an in situ practice of relationality” Love this Nikki Fairchild 🌻🌻🌻 Carol Taylor Karen Gravett - aligns w/my PhD res

Yes, how can we surface the micro-moments of learning and teaching, foster more ethical ways of working, and to seek to create more affirmative relationships in HE? This article feels more timely than ever and great to see it in its volume Nikki Fairchild 🌻🌻🌻 Carol Taylor

Academics in 🇿🇦universities. Please tell us how generative AI is impacting positively/negatively (or not at all) your work: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3W… Dr Cathryn Knight Lawrie Prof. Tom Crick Universities South Africa @CouncilonHigherEducation_SA DUT OpenAcademics Academic Chatter™ #AcademicTwitter