Student Belonging in Higher Education

Providing sector leading, scholarly informed critical explorations on students' sense of belonging in higher education settings, this key text explores invaluable considerations for contemporary issues to inform institutional policy, pedagogic practice, student education support and diversity and accessibility practices.

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Mi Young Ahn is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Edward Venn is Professor of Music in the School of Music, University of Leeds, UK.

Tom Lowe is Principal Lecturer and Assistant Head of School (Student Experience) in the School of Finance and Accounting, at the University of Westminster, UK.

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Foreword: Beyond Building Belonging: Reimagining Success in Higher Education. Sunday Blake, GuildHE.

Part I - Introductions

Chapter 1: Investigating Sense of Belonging in Higher Education: A Multi-dimensional & multi-layered Approach. - Mi Young Ahn

Chapter 2: Challenging Dominant Discourses: Towards Dynamic Narratives of Belonging as Becoming in Higher Education. - Edward Venn, Karen Burland and Boroka Javor

Chapter 3: Belonging Theory into Practice: A Framework to enhance Student Success in Higher Education. - Caroline Cooke and Tom Lowe

Part II - Perspectives on Belonging

Chapter 4: Seeking Belonging in Higher Education: A Student Leader's Perspective. -Ayoola Johnson

Chapter 5: Generation Delta Network: Fostering Belonging and Shared Social Capital Among Postgraduate Students of Colour. - Angela Loum

Chapter 6: Belonging and Engagement in Higher Education Literature: Related but Separate Constructs. - Kathleen M. Quinlan

Chapter 7: Social Engagement and Students' Sense of Belonging in Higher Education: A Multidimensional Perspective. - Terrell L. Strayhorn

Chapter 8: Beyond concrete walls? Exploring student belonging through university campus spaces. - Billy Wong and Tiffany Chiu

Chapter 9: Happy staff, happy students? Exploring professional identity and student belonging in higher education. - Rebecca Hodgson

Chapter 10: Institutional belonging: The role of social capital. - Snigdha Dutta and Vrinda Bhatia

Part III - Case Studies in Belonging

Chapter 11: Belonging: Whiteness, language, and the navigation of the self. - Mukisa Mujulizi

Chapter 12: A collaborative autoethnographic reflection on social class and student belonging in higher education. - Stacey Mottershaw, Rachael O'Connor and Nadine Cavigioli

Chapter 13: Degree Apprenticeship Students in Higher Education and their Sense of Belonging in the Context of their Learner Identity. - Joanne Brindley and Fiona Cook

Chapter 14: 'Who I Am Is More Than Enough': How Multiple Forms of Co-creation Foster Belonging and Mattering for Wellbeing. - Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth and Mara Wald

Chapter 15: Subaltern spaces of belonging: A critical analysis of race, ethnicity and belonging in UK Higher Education for British-Bangladeshi women in postgraduate research. - Maisha Islam, Farhin Ahmed, Musharrat Ahmed-Landeryou and Tahnia Ahmed

Chapter 16: Student Belonging In Reverse: How Do Failures in Student Belonging for Trans Students Cause Trans Student Leaders to Make Their Own Sense of Community - Ashley Michael John Storer-Smith

Chapter 17: Belongingness for Indigenous Students in United States Postsecondary Education: Theoretical Perspectives Braiding Culture, Community, and Campus Support. - Adam J. Alejandro and Carlton J. Fong

Chapter 18: Made for a Trade? Negotiating working-class masculinity to and through spaces of Higher Education. - Alex Blower and Craig Johnston

Chapter 19: Home Away from Home: Belonging and Mattering for the Chinese-Speaking Student Community. - Janet Zheng, Weiwei Su and Bo Kelestyn

Chapter 20: A Critical Exploration of Whiteness and Intersectionality in British Higher Education: Am I invisible? - Shannon Skehan and Mi Young Ahn

Chapter 21: The importance of belonging through the lens of intersectionality: Perspectives from students of African humanitarian-background. - Elvis Munyoka, Hannah Soong, Kalpana Goel and David Radford