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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you to @columfromcork.bsky.social and to everyone who participated. #LTHEchat

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A6 I'd make sure it was within 10-15 to avoid commute times, then offer a choice of activities spanning, social, study skills, peer mentoring sessions, students as partners projects #LTHEchat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A6 Give them time to think, process, with a few reflective question. Equally leave them time to mind wonder 🤔 - yes, doing nothing changes everything! #LTHEChat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A6 Yes - one hour to sit and stare - what a lovely idea!! (Of course following my logic - it should be a module - and at the end they should produce something that reflected back to the rest of us what that hour per week had brought them - even if it were just the joy of boredom!)

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q6 - If you could protect one hour in every student’s week, what would you do with it? Would you leave it empty? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response @columfromcork.bsky.social

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#LTHEChat A4Travelling in shd be rewarded with interaction, not a lecture. Interactive workshops, dialogic seminars, time to be in the canteen together - and perhaps that module that rewards you for being a peer mentor or belonging to the SU or being in a Club or Society or something else glorious?

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q5 - For students who are rarely or never on campus, what’s the equivalent of the conversation after class, and who’s designing it? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response @columfromcork.bsky.social

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A4 In addition to a timetabled class and hopefully more than one, it could be attending a peer group meeting, a society or sport activity, a careers event or time spent in the library or quiet space to work on an assignment. #LTHEchat

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Scott Turner @scottturneruon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A3 for a small group, following up to see if there is a problem. But I do struggle with the how to get that message of why being in the room matters - looking for ideas :-) #LTHEchat

Dr Yaz Iyabo Osho @yazosho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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A3 - Talk to the students in the class, those who may come to personal tutoring sessions or office hours & not in the class, to see what is happening. Send announcements alerting sessions link to the assessment - either in content or literacy, if the case may be. @columfromcork.bsky.social #LTHEChat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q4 - If a student travels an hour each way, what would make the day worth the journey? Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response @columfromcork.bsky.social

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#LTHEChat A3 It's wierd when we reward students by suggesting they not come in. With our various reading/enhancement weeks, we would hold exhibitions of student work, we would say when we would be in the canteen so they could find us for a chat. We wanted to show they mattered & being there counted

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We tried to recreate that commonroom feel when running drop-ins - with an urn for tea and coffee and biscuits for an early morning catch up - and a friend at work has that arrangement for all her students - a friendly place to drop-in, make tea, have a chat #LTHEChat

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Kate Gilliver @penarthkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A2 - do they have to do a cross-campus sprint to get to their next class? Or catch a train, or get to a work shift? Or just can't wait to get out of my presence! Or because my class was on a Friday afternoon and they want to kick off the weekend? I hate Friday afternoon classes! #LTHEChat

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Dr Yaz Iyabo Osho @yazosho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A2 - that the student has a job, has other commitments, but pleased the student came to class. What's missing is our understanding of students' lived realities. @columfromcork.bsky.social

Martin Rich @martinrich106.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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As an aside doing in-person tutorials as we were easing out of the pandemic, when neither I nor the students were allowed to stay on campus for any significant time once the tutorials had finished, was an eerie & unsatisfying experience #LTHEchat

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Q3 - When attendance drops, how do we respond? And what might that tell students about why being in the room matters? Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response @columfromcork.bsky.social

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q2 - When students leave as soon as class ends, what explanations do we reach for first, and what might we be missing? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @columfromcork.bsky.social

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A1 From a settling in perspective, it was the breaks between classes when I got to know my peers and we built that trust to ask questions and share any concerns. #LTHEchat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A1 The conversations that mattered the most took place in the canteen. I would camp there for hours - and my friends would come and go - we would talk and talk... (the library was across the stair well, so I would occasionally pop in there to grab an offprint to read...

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Q1 - Think back to when you were a student. Where did the conversations that mattered most happen? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response @columfromcork.bsky.social

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Welcome to this evening’s chat hosted by @columfromcork.bsky.social Are your typing fingers ready? Have you got a drink ready? Are you ready? Let’s get started... #LTHEchat

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Colum @columfromcork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ten minutes to go until this evening’s #LTHEchat :) We will discuss how the design of time and space shapes student engagement, participation, and sense of belonging. Still time to read through the blogpost buff.ly/CrhmjWL and follow #LTHEchat. It’s that easy! @columfromcork.bsky.social

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Looking forward to tomorrow evening's #LTHEchat where we'll be exploring how the design of time and space shapes student engagement, participation, and belonging Join @lthechat.bsky.social, me, and others tomorrow here 8-9pm Beforehand have a gander at the blog post: lthechat.com/2026/09/27/l...

LTHEChat 374: Apathy or Architecture? The hidden curriculum of time and space

Join us on Wednesday 30th of September at 8.00pm (GMT/BST) with our guest contributor, Colum Cronin of Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, (@columfromcork.bsky.social). This #LTHEChat on BlueSky…

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for #LTHEchat which will explore how the design of time and space shapes student engagement, participation and belonging with @columfromcork.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT/BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/09/27/l...

LTHEChat 374: Apathy or Architecture? The hidden curriculum of time and space

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Louise Rees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🎨🦒🦦 @louiserees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely LOVING this blogpost which builds on so many recent blogposts and articles etc about belonging and engagement and the social dimensions. I'd encourage anyone to read the post and note the underpinning evidence and the approach @columfromcork.bsky.social outlines #LTHEChat

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us for this week's #LTHEChat, which will explore how the design of time and space shapes student engagement, participation and belonging with @columfromcork.bsky.social on Wednesday at 8.00pm (GMT/BST). Read the blog post here: lthechat.com/2026/09/27/l...

LTHEChat 374: Apathy or Architecture? The hidden curriculum of time and space

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us on Wednesday 30th Sept 8pm BST with our guest Colum Cronin of Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, @columfromcork.bsky.social This #LTHEChat will explore how the design of time and space shapes student engagement, participation and belonging. lthechat.com/2026/09/27/l...

LTHEChat 374: Apathy or Architecture? The hidden curriculum of time and space

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Mark J @colsportsguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Join in our weekly dog thread!

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

See you all next week - same time, same place! #LTHEchat Next week we will be joined by Colum Cronin, @columfromcork.bsky.social as we discuss student engagement. Colum’s blog post has the intriguing title, “Apathy or Architecture? The hidden curriculum of time and space”. See you then!

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Dr Catherine O’Mahony (she/her) @catherineomahony.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interesting focus for this week's #LTHEchat on teaching for belonging in Higher Ed. Join us at 8pm GMT/BST.

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join us on Wednesday, 23rd of September at 8:00pm BST for #LTHEchat with our guest Dr Francis Awolowo @ifawolowo.bsky.social where we will consider “What might HE look like if belonging were not an accidental outcome, but an intentional part of how we teach?“ lthechat.com/2026/09/18/l...

LTHEChat 373: Beyond Inclusion: Can We Teach for Belonging?

Join us on Wednesday, 23rd of September at 8:00pm (GMT/BST) with our guest contributor, Francis Awolowo from Sheffield Hallam University, @ifawolowo.bsky.social. This #LTHEChat on BlueSky will cons…

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Mark J @colsportsguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Football is back and that means so are your, my, and our favorite friends from The Emerald Isle. Follow along this season with @columfromcork.bsky.social and @sroche123.bsky.social on the Dublin to Denver podcast. The only thing that remains to be said, is Go Broncos!