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Belonging & community
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Is international integration all about pairing?
24/02/23
Helping international students to achieve academic integration
02/02/23
How to improve international student integration and experience
19/01/23
It’s the most important five days of your life
Livia Scott
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SU blog
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12/01/23
Students will go if other students have organised it
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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11/01/23
It’s like Karaoke, but more about community
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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10/01/23
Policy forum report: Postgraduates
03/12/22
Community and connection means starting with the course
Marianne Evans
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SU blog
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20/10/22
Over a quarter of students have no friends at university
17/10/22
How to ensure commuter students belong
29/09/22
What should an SU’s relationship with its community be like?
James Coe
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SU blog
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01/09/22
What are the factors influencing students’ sense of belonging?
16/06/22
Who are the UK’s loneliest students?
14/06/22
Student satisfaction? It’s all about interaction
10/06/22
If students need belonging then their SUs need to change
Talia Adams
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SU blog
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23/05/22
Time for SUs to write a new chapter on community on campus
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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05/05/22
Blankets are available
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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10/04/22
In Denmark, they give students a hygge
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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06/04/22
Anxious students are more likely to struggle both socially and academically
17/03/22
Ten top takeaways for SUs from our research on students and belonging
17/02/22
Why are we ingraining inequality in student communities?
08/02/22
Race and racism in student halls
03/02/22
A desire to belong – ethnic minority students’ lived experience of being a PGR
01/02/22
Horrible housemates and the student experience
26/01/22
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