Yes, lots of lipservice to student belonging, ownership & agency - still little curriculum space for a compassionate curriculum. Even so, staff losing their spaces - allowed only to book a silent work space when they come on campus - seriously!! And no time to 'be with' their students #LTHEchat

#LTHEchat A3 Probably the most important thing you can do is help students feel they belong and know that they matter. Teach with love and through dialogue and active learning. Students get to know each other through the processes by which you engage them in the teaching/learning & assmt processes

Yes! The stripped back HE makes little room for the human! On the access course I taught on, we also collectively went out socially with the students, invited the class round for food and out to events together - it was a powerful course full of endeavour, but also of love and care #LTHEchat

May be no invitation is needed - but perhaps a barrier is that we feel that we need that invitation? Helping our WP students know they matter is one of the most important things we can do I am beginning to think! #LTHEchat

#LTHEchat A2 Welcoming students for who they are. Not greeting them with a raft of diagnostic tests but asking: Who are our students, what are their strengths, what are their needs? Making curriculum space for busy nontrad students to get to bond & enter the cultural & social life of the university

#LTHEchat A1 In primary, Mr McCarthy made us feel we were a class & that he cared. Working in HE, after about 12 years rounding a corner on the way to a meeting, hearing someone say: Sandra's here - warmed my heart. We can feel more outside than we are? We can reach out so others know they belong

We can ask educators to build belonging, but if institutional systems continually squeeze out the time needed for relationships, we are working against the grain. Perhaps belonging needs to become an institutional priority, not simply another responsibility placed on individual educators. #LTHEchat

A6 - We feel how the system tries to hijack our time and effort away from sustaining relationships with staff colleagues and with students, so changing the institution seems the most(?) important target #LTHEchat

Yes . I think that is at the heart of belonging. Students can be included, represented and listened to, but ultimately they need to feel that they matter: that their presence, voice, identity and contribution genuinely make a difference to the community they are part of. #LTHEchat

Thanks everyone - contributors and organising team. Look forward to next weeks #lthechat!

Absolutely. Listening matters, but closing the loop is crucial. Students need to see that their voices can lead to action. I like the idea of intentional listening points across the student journey, creating an ongoing cycle of voice, response and change. #LTHEchat

Such a good point. Those smaller, shared experiences can transform relationships and create community. It is a shame if students only experience that toward the end of their degree; perhaps we need to design more opportunities for meaningful connection from the very beginning. #LTHEchat

Thanks for the great questions @ifawolowo.bsky.social and engaging discussion! #LTHEchat

I really like the thoughtfulness here. Intentionally creating opportunities for connection while recognising that connection looks different for different people. Offering alternatives means we are designing for belonging without prescribing how students must experience it. #LTHEchat

My colleague @nbridgeman.bsky.social uses a great interactive map activity #LTHEchat blog.shu.ac.uk/sotl/using-i...

A6 My friends had surnames M-P as we were grouped together alphabetically in labs. Lots of time to chat between Bunsen burning and pipetting. (I’m O’Mahony) #LTHEchat

See you all next week - same time, same place! #LTHEchat

Next week we will be joined by Colum Cronin, @columfromcork.bsky.social as we discuss student engagement. Colum’s blog post has the intriguing title, “Apathy or Architecture? The hidden curriculum of time and space”. See you then!

I like this. Belonging also needs time and space to develop organically. Not every connection has to be designed or assessed. Giving students freedom to study, socialise, explore interests or simply pause can create opportunities for community on their own terms. #LTHEchat

Absolutely. Moving beyond simply allowing people to be themselves to actively valuing and celebrating who they are is powerful. When authenticity is welcomed rather than merely tolerated, we create learning environments where everyone has a better chance to belong and thrive. #LTHEchat

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