A TILE Network Seminar

Abstract

With students’ roles and agency critical to any higher education teaching and learning space, the question of student belonging undoubtedly holds particular significance. Educators are required to develop a learning environment which cultivates a sense of belonging for all students. Without this, the risk posed by low levels of connectedness between students leads to challenges for meaningful collaboration and social capital development amongst students. Educators therefore need to determine whether their learning strategies enable students to have mutually beneficial relationships and to develop the social capital that is required to meet their learning goals.
One way to foster such a sense of belonging is through the application and implementation of pedagogies of care. Pedagogies of care draw on the ethics of care framework, which emphasises reciprocal educator-student relationships based on mutual respect, authentic dialogues, and investment in knowledge for action. This talk will explore some of the pedagogies of care we can implement in our classrooms to foster a sense of belonging.

About the speaker

Dr. Lucy Gill-Simmen (she/her) is Vice Dean of Education and Student Experience and a Senior Lecturer in Marketing in the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has a passion for management education and seeks to provide the best and most equal education experience for all students. She holds both a MBA and a Ph.D. in Marketing from Imperial College Business School, London. Her pedagogic research interests lie in the development of human skills amongst students, devising inclusive feedback and assessment strategies, and values-based pedagogies for educating the 'whole' individual. She has published her work in pedagogy in a number of academic journals, and most recently published her case research in the world’s leading journal for case research; Case Research Journal. She is the Chair for the Academy of Marketing, Marketing Education Special Interest Group. In 2022, she was awarded the Global Women in Marketing Award for her role as a marketing educator.