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Belonging & community
Explainers and SU blogs on this topic, newest first.
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Students need shallower ends to build belonging during Welcome Week
Rhys Wallis
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SU blog
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01/09/23
A shared community for students in the city
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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26/07/23
Students need a cha cha cha
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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20/07/23
We need the disabled student voice more than ever
Amelia McLoughlan
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SU blog
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27/06/23
New ways of building community on campus
Livia Scott
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SU blog
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23/06/23
Building campus communities means putting down roots
Liz Wylie-Smy
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SU blog
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23/06/23
International students are more than numbers on a spreadsheet
Sára Kozáková
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SU blog
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23/05/23
Students need to see themselves in their SU
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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21/04/23
Welcome week should be all about the family
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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03/03/23
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
Community and connection means starting with the course
Marianne Evans
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SU blog
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20/10/22
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
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
OfS needs to ask the right questions on student mental health
Freya Rennison
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SU blog
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14/01/22
How bad is student crime in your area – and what should SUs do about it?
David Kernohan
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SU blog
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17/09/21
What did SUs learn from the Pandemic: Part 3
Nick Glover
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SU blog
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30/07/21
How do we collectively craft a more caring university community?
Ruqaiyah Javaid
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SU blog
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14/06/21
Student cooperation can help us reclaim “belonging” post-Covid
Sean Porter
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SU blog
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25/02/21
How to do town gown during a global pandemic
Megan Robertson
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SU blog
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06/11/20
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