By Huynh Trang Tuan Tuong, UG student, and Mary Moschou, staff, University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) How this began After a few years in academia, I realised I missed working with students in a genuinely collaborative way. Not supervising, assessing or leading sessions with predefined outcomes, but creating something together because it felt worthwhile. A space with no grades attached. I was looking for collaboration without hierarchy. No familiar dynamic of “I am

By Lauren Flannery, PhD student and Associate Professor, The University of East Anglia When I began my PhD alongside my academic role, I expected to think critically, write analytically, and plan strategically. What I didn’t expect was to feel so deeply. Sitting in classes again as a student, I became acutely aware of how it feels to belong, to be heard, and to be met with genuine curiosity. These experiences reminded me that learning is profoundly relational. Inclusion, at i