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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi Mollie, hope you are enjoying HERDSA. This is the paper I believe you are thinking about! doi.org/10.1080/0260...

Feedback literacy-as-event: relationality, space and temporality in feedback encounters

Research on student and teacher feedback literacies is currently a flourishing sub-field of higher education, as scholars seek to address the durable and dissatisfying dilemmas that feedback proces...

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · May 28

Thank you @timeshighered.bsky.social and @mirandaprynne.bsky.social for this invitation to discuss student belonging and engagement in digital spaces

Miranda Prynne @mirandaprynne.bsky.social · May 28

Our podcast this week features @kgravett.bsky.social - an expert in student belonging and engagement in digital spaces - explain the nuances of #belonging and #inclusion in #highered as well as how to foster #wellbeing: ow.ly/1L6W50VZVf8 #DEI #EDI #academicsky #edusky

THE podcast: the complex factors that drive students’ sense of belonging

An expert in student belonging and engagement in the digital environment explains the nuances of belonging, mattering and inclusion as well as how to foster well-being in higher education

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · May 28

Hear @kgravett.bsky.social - an expert in student belonging and engagement in the digital environment - explain the nuances of #belonging and #inclusion as well as how to foster #wellbeing in #highereducation on this week's Campus podcast: ow.ly/1L6W50VZVf8 #highered #EDI #DEI

THE podcast: the complex factors that drive students’ sense of belonging

An expert in student belonging and engagement in the digital environment explains the nuances of belonging, mattering and inclusion as well as how to foster well-being in higher education

ow.ly

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Society for Research into Higher Education @srhe.bsky.social · Apr 15

📢 Submission Deadline Reminder. Just 1 month to go to submit your papers, symposia, and posters for #SRHE2025.
Details of the full CFP and how to make a submission: bit.ly/3CFqrHz Deadline: 15 May 2025 (23:59 GMT+1) ⏰
#HigherEducation #ResearchConference #CallForPapers

International Conference 2025 | Society for Research into Higher Education

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Peter Hemming @drpeterjhemming.bsky.social · Feb 19

Scholarship available for our new MSc Social Research at University of Surrey for students from a low-income or less advantaged background: www.surrey.ac.uk/news/new-sch...

New scholarship for Social Research MSc | University of Surrey

www.surrey.ac.uk

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Mar 31

Sounds amazing! Hope you have a well deserved break!

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Society for Research into Higher Education @srhe.bsky.social · Mar 20

📣 Call for Papers for #SRHE2025 now open!

We welcome submissions for research papers, symposia, and posters from postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners in HE research. Visit bit.ly/3CFqrHz to find out more. Closing date 15 May 2025.

#HigherEducation #Research #Conference #CFP

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thanks Sally

Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Mar 7

After a long winter, spring has come to campus! Celebrating with fabulous colleagues

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Mar 4

Looks amazing! Have a great time

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Postdigital Science and Education @pdse.bsky.social · Mar 3

Today, a wonderful, recently published encyclopedia entry link.springer.com/referencewor...

Postdigital Relational Pedagogies

There has been renewed interest in the significance of care, connection, and relationships as a means to respond to uncaring marketised conceptions of higher education. Expanding on this, theorists ha...

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Feb 20

It was a pleasure to take part in this dialogue. I am looking forward to listening to all the other podcasts. Thank you @cpid24.bsky.social !

Jan McArthur @janmcarthur.bsky.social · Feb 20

Fabulous new podcast series from the amazing colleagues at CPID in the Technological University of the Shannon.

Centre for Pedagogical Innovation and Development @cpid24.bsky.social · Feb 19

New Academic Practice Podcast Series available now. Listen to insightful and contemporary conversations between CPID staff involved in teaching, the @tus-pass.bsky.social and educational research, and well known educational academics and experts.

Access all episodes here tus.ie/cpid/podcasts/

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thank you Simon, hope you enjoy it!

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thank you so much, Rachel!

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thank you so much @profsallybrown.bsky.social

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Feb 17

My new book is here! In this book I draw upon my research with students and educators to examine how we might find meaningful ways to be critical in contemporary times. The book considers some ways we might enact a relational critical practice

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Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · Feb 11

📣 Event Klaxon! 📣

Campus Geographies of the Student Experience at SRHE - 29th of April - looking at how the physical elements of universities feature in students' lives in different ways.

🎓🏫 Registration and details below: it's in person, with online attendance possible.
srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ...

CiviCRM | Society for Research into Higher Education

Do not delete this page. Page content is generated by CiviCRM.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · Feb 5

A packed schedule of 30 interesting sessions about research with international students. Please join us ⬇️

Research with International Students (RIS) @risnetwork.bsky.social · Feb 5

Our RIS Online Conference 2025 schedule is now LIVE! 🎉
researchintlstudents.com/schedule-at-...

"Finding Purpose in Research with International Students"
10 -13 March 2025
Online via Zoom
Free to attend, but registration is required: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Schedule at a glance

The information below outlines the full RIS Online Conference 2025 schedule at a glance. You can find abstracts and full session details on the linked individual day pages. The full conference runs…

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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · Jan 31

🎨RIS zine-making workshop
🤗 researchintlstudents.com/events/
📝19 February 2025
🌟4:00-6:00 pm UCT, online via Zoom
➡️ zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · Jan 15

A new paper from me:
International students and everyday multiculturalism: rethinking ‘connection’ through mundane sites of encounter

Available open access at: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Co-authored with Daian Haung, Limanzi Xu, Mumine Ozturk, and Karen Broadhurst Healey (joint 2nd authors)

Dominant narratives of international students in the existing literature paint them as ‘missing’ or living ‘in parallel’ to their local communities, predominantly through evaluating the composition of their friendship networks. In this study, we query whether the use of a new conceptual framework can provide alternative explanations for these defcit framing. Using the lens of ‘everyday multiculturalism’, we explore instead how (international) students encounter, enact, and engage with multiculturalism in their local communities in more micro ways through banal acts of daily living. This has been developed through interviews with 41 international and home students across four cities in Germany, using a photo elicitation method and centring narrative storytelling. This study fnds that microsites of encounter, such as rubbish bins and bus rides, are symbolised by students as meaningful spaces of multicultural encounter and learning. We further refect on how everyday multiculturalism holds a dual function as a site of experienced xenophobia and racism, as well as spaces where stereotypes are confirmed. Together this highlights the value of
alternative conceptual frameworks for critiquing deficit framings of international students’ connections to multicultural societies by highlighting how they *are* multicultural society.

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Rita Hordósy @rhordosy.bsky.social · Jan 9

Join the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Student Access and Experience Network for a seminar series on the research and teaching nexus, with a mixture of in-person and online events between February - April 2025! /1

Society for Research into Higher Education
STUDENT ACCESS AND EXPERIENCE NETWORK
RESEARCH AND TEACHING NEXUS

The research and teaching nexus in diverse subject areas and contexts https://srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=712

Integrating research and teaching – opportunities and pitfalls, as seen by students and staff - https://srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=713

The research and teaching nexus from novel perspectives - https://srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=714

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Jan 10

Great to see this new bibliography by @bonstewart.bsky.social that explores belonging in all its multiplicity, and to see the growing educational scholarship that’s unpacking this complex concept

Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · Jan 3

my 75+ text OER Annotated Bibliography on Belonging in Education is live! it's the academic foundation underpinning my sabbatical Belonging Project: bonstewart.com/belonging/th...

if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)

belonging: an annotated bibliography

What does it mean, to belong? How do belonging and not belonging get experienced/expressed in learning contexts? In networks and communities?I have been teaching for nearly three decades, learning for...

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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · Dec 18

Congratulations! What an exciting project with brilliant researchers

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · Dec 14

Deadline for this CFP extended to Jen 17th.

Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Metaphors of AI in Higher Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices"

Please consider this special issue call in the amazing Q1 open-access journal JIME and feel free to spread the word 🙏

account.jime.open.ac.uk/index.php/up...

account.jime.open.ac.uk

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Sazana Jayadeva @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social · Dec 11

Come work with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @rachelbrooks.bsky.social & myself on a new Open Research Area project, ‘Virtual Mobilities of International Students: towards a new model for the internationalisation of higher education?'

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Deadline: 5 Jan 2025

Pls repost!

CH12254 Research Assistant/Research Associate - Jobs at Bath

Research Assistant/ Research Associate

www.bath.ac.uk

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