Nicole Crawford
@crawfordnic.bsky.social
Higher education researcher & educator keen on: uni student & staff mental wellbeing; equity & inclusion; enabling education; teaching & learning
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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
Cites Penny Jane Burke's work on timescapes
#HERDSA2025
July 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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
Cites Penny Jane Burke's work on timescapes
#HERDSA2025
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So, we're off! Rowena Harper the first #HERDSA2025 keynote. She's talking about productive and ethical use of AI.
July 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
So, we're off! Rowena Harper the first #HERDSA2025 keynote. She's talking about productive and ethical use of AI.
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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
This is why we need more engaging and dare I say relational approaches to higher ed research…
#HERDSA2025
July 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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
This is why we need more engaging and dare I say relational approaches to higher ed research…
#HERDSA2025
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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
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
July 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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
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
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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
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
July 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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
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
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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
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
July 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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
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
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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.
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.
Editorial: Indiana University, Ball State and Purdue are gutted without logic or thought
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
Editorial: Indiana University, Ball State and Purdue are gutted without logic or thought
Taking an axe to degree programs at Indiana University makes no sense.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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.
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.
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@drjot.bsky.social at #herdsa2025 shares the tensions experienced by #equity students in #groupwork - the ➕ and ➖, it’s complicated!
July 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
@drjot.bsky.social at #herdsa2025 shares the tensions experienced by #equity students in #groupwork - the ➕ and ➖, it’s complicated!
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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
Speaks the variety of experiences our students (often lumped together) face - there is no one type of student! #HERDSA2025
July 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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
Speaks the variety of experiences our students (often lumped together) face - there is no one type of student! #HERDSA2025
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'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
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.
loom.ly
May 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
'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
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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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February 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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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🚨🥳 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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
🚨🥳 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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
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....
doi.org
January 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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...
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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....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The collaborative potential of the rural health and student equity fields in higher education
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 14, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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-...
Thursday 5th December, 2pm (AEDT)/11am (WA)
For info: blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/find-...
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…
blogs.deakin.edu.au
November 21, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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-...
Thursday 5th December, 2pm (AEDT)/11am (WA)
For info: blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/find-...
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#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!
▶️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!
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 AM
#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!
▶️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!
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👇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...
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...
November 19, 2024 at 8:41 AM
👇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...
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...
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👇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
Rachel Burke, Sally Baker, Tebeje Molla
▶️Living w trauma, discrimination...
▶️Making trusted connections
▶️Navigating unfamiliar terrain
▶️Can't see myself
▶️Strengths based
November 19, 2024 at 8:32 AM
👇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
Rachel Burke, Sally Baker, Tebeje Molla
▶️Living w trauma, discrimination...
▶️Making trusted connections
▶️Navigating unfamiliar terrain
▶️Can't see myself
▶️Strengths based
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👇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
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
November 19, 2024 at 8:17 AM
👇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
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
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👇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!
Unik, Isaacs-Guthridge, Bennett
▶️Being & engaging in place
▶️Always in relationship w Kin & Country, whether acknowledged or not!
November 19, 2024 at 8:10 AM
👇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!
Unik, Isaacs-Guthridge, Bennett
▶️Being & engaging in place
▶️Always in relationship w Kin & Country, whether acknowledged or not!
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👇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
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
November 19, 2024 at 8:05 AM
👇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
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
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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
▶️27 Chapters on #StudentEngagement
▶️Q&A with fab Eds Cathy & Sarah
▶️Quick Chapt 2 by Kift🤓
▶️Chapt 4 Alice Brown re Online engagement
November 19, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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
▶️27 Chapters on #StudentEngagement
▶️Q&A with fab Eds Cathy & Sarah
▶️Quick Chapt 2 by Kift🤓
▶️Chapt 4 Alice Brown re Online engagement
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👏#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
👇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
November 19, 2024 at 1:33 AM
👏#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
👇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
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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/...
👇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/...
November 19, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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/...
👇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/...
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.
Sally Kift (@kiftsally.bsky.social) will be interviewing Cathy and Sarah, and some of us will share a bit about our chapters.
November 17, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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.
Sally Kift (@kiftsally.bsky.social) will be interviewing Cathy and Sarah, and some of us will share a bit about our chapters.