Anthropologists argue scales obscure structural distress, emphasizing individual flaws over context. Read analysis: www.cambridge.org/core/service... #MentalHealthResearch

Jo and the title slide

References to work on time & equity students

Now at Jo Dargusch's preso on how time impacts equity students. It's one resource that equity students often don't have.

Cites Penny Jane Burke's work on timescapes

#HERDSA2025

A very angled photo of the podium/screen, with side profile of Rowena

So, we're off! Rowena Harper the first #HERDSA2025 keynote. She's talking about productive and ethical use of AI.

Love the UNSW recognition that students don’t love surveys!

This is why we need more engaging and dare I say relational approaches to higher ed research…

#HERDSA2025

Corbin points out that AI tools often guide our students on what to read. This is really really scary!!

Good news - this is why we need educators. To curate the reading and make sure students aren’t just reading the dominant texts of our disciplines #HERDSA2025

Jack from CRADLE further notes that students uncomplicated use of GenAI is in fact complicated…

Good point. And really links to the need to shift to detect learning, which btw is really hard and much much harder than detecting cheating @jasonmlodge.bsky.social #HERDSA2025

Gov messaging is contradictory.

One hand trying to increase total number of heads, other hand hoping to dictate spots in this course but not that, this uni but not that one.

Norton points out this won’t work. Can’t have the cake and eat it too! #HERDSA2025

Herman B Wells vision for IU was a uni with strong linguistic and cultural roots - preparing grads for a complex internationalized world.

That’s now all being dismantled, thanks to a conservative gov who doesn’t see value in ‘niche’ courses. And they’re only just getting started.

@drjot.bsky.social at #herdsa2025 shares the tensions experienced by #equity students in #groupwork - the ➕ and ➖, it’s complicated!

The fab @drjot.bsky.social presenting on behalf of our team on the challenges of group assessment for equity students

Speaks the variety of experiences our students (often lumped together) face - there is no one type of student! #HERDSA2025

What we should know about the threats to Harvard? Trump's war on Harvard: as a growing body of scholarship has shown, the metrics on merit are far from neutral.

'Pure’ merit erases history and context, treating unequal outcomes as evidence of unequal effort. Tebeje Molla argues that Australia cannot afford to be complacent in the face of US government attacks on universities. loom.ly/U46zLWE

Proud to be one of 500+ Jews to sign this full page newspaper ad in SMH / the Age calling on Australia to reject calls for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
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The house of cards: equity-group students’ experiences of structural inequity in higher education Globally, correlations are reported between lower academic attainment and university students being a member of an ‘equity’ or ‘historically under-represented’ group. We seek to illuminate how this...

🚨🥳 new paper alert! The House of Cards paper (the companion to last year's seminar - youtube.com/watch?v=IO-y...) has been published. Thanks to Rola for her leadership of the project and the team for their hard work.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How Can the University Environment Support Student Quality of Life? A Novel Conceptual Model During emerging adulthood (18–25 years), university students have taken steps towards independent living and learning. However, they are also in a liminal phase before the ‘stable roles’ of adulthood....

Alyson Dodd explores university students' unique challenges, finding that independence, personal growth, and mental health are central to their Quality of Life (QoL). Read more: doi.org/10.3390/educ...

The collaborative potential of the rural health and student equity fields in higher education Click on the article title to read more.

Our Australian Journal of Rural Health editorial on the collaborative potential of the rural health and equity fields in higher education is out! Check it out and let me know what you think.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our team: @drjot.bsky.social, Rola Ajjawi, @margaretbea.bsky.social, @mattbrettltu.bsky.social, @molliedollin.bsky.social, Alcy Meehan & me. 😊

To register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/cradle-sem...

Find out what equity-group students think of negotiating life at university In our final seminar for 2024 we hear from CRADLE researchers Dr Joanna Tai, Dr Nicole Crawford and Professor Rola Ajjawi. They will offer an overview of findings from a study to investigate underg…

Please join us (@drjot.bsky.social, Rola & me) for an online seminar about our research project - a longitudinal qualitative study - exploring how students negotiate their day-to-day learning.

Thursday 5th December, 2pm (AEDT)/11am (WA)

For info: blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/find-...

Thanks heaps for posting/skeeting, @kiftsally.bsky.social! 😀
#TheKiftStar 😍

#Engagement Q&A
▶️Better ways to measure engagement & use it ethically
▶️Gendered & ethic of care (mainly women authors)
▶️Ethic of disruption too
▶️Why is it SO hard to shift institutions' understanding?
Great discussion!

👇Chapt 18 Gypsy, Traveller & Roma students in UK HE: Ethic of engagement thru the lifecycle
Emily Danvers Natalie Forster
▶️#GRTSB Marginalised & silenced
▶️Racism
3️⃣ themes
▶️Engage 'with' not 'to'
▶️In-reach, exp, decolonising
▶️HE as cruel promise?
All abstracts www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

👇Chapt 12 Engagement insights from students w Culturally & Linguistically Marginalised Migrant/Refugee (CALMMR) backgrounds
Rachel Burke, Sally Baker, Tebeje Molla
▶️Living w trauma, discrimination...
▶️Making trusted connections
▶️Navigating unfamiliar terrain
▶️Can't see myself
▶️Strengths based

👇Chapt 8 Traversing engagement in HE for student-carers
Sally Savage & Deborah Munro
▶️Thinking about how student-carers navigate complex demands & priorities, with little uni support
▶️Challenges as personal failures OR a combo of structural & cultural influences constraining choice & success

👇Chapt 6 Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other under-served university students thru Indigenous relationality
Unik, Isaacs-Guthridge, Bennett
▶️Being & engaging in place
▶️Always in relationship w Kin & Country, whether acknowledged or not!

👇Now
Chapt 5 Engagement and students w disability
@mattbrettltu.bsky.social George, Knight, Hildebrandt
▶️Disability absent from Kahu Engagement Framework
▶️#SES data: engagement implications for SwD

🤔Room for improvement

And we're off!
▶️27 Chapters on #StudentEngagement
▶️Q&A with fab Eds Cathy & Sarah
▶️Quick Chapt 2 by Kift🤓
▶️Chapt 4 Alice Brown re Online engagement

👏#BookLaunch 2day🚀
👇Research Handbook on HE #StudentEngagement
⏰6-8 PM AEDT
🔗Rego uonewcastle.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🤩Fab
->Eds Cathy+Sarah+me
->Authors re
•Online
•Disability
•Regional+Remote
•Carers
•First Nations
•CALMMR
•GypsyTraveller+Roma
@mattbrettltu.bsky.social @crawfordnic.bsky.social

Now
👇Chapt 10 Belonging, wellbeing & engagement: perspectives of regional, rural & remote students
Janine Delahunty @crawfordnic.bsky.social
▶️Vignettes constructed
▶️Belonging for whom? To what? Other ways?
▶️Draw on 2 projects: www.ncsehe.edu.au/app/uploads/...
www.acses.edu.au/app/uploads/...

Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education This cutting-edge Research Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of key developments in the field of student engagement, with particular reference to equity and diversity issues. Promoting a more...

Info about the book: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...

Register at: uonewcastle.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Come along to the online launch of the Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education (edited by Cathy Stone & Sarah O'Shea). It's on Tues 19th Nov 6pm (AEDT).

Sally Kift (@kiftsally.bsky.social) will be interviewing Cathy and Sarah, and some of us will share a bit about our chapters.