# Belonging and Wellbeing
**Source**: https://www.education.unsw.edu.au/tags/belonging-and-wellbeing
**Parent**: https://www.education.unsw.edu.au/news-events
- 24 Feb 2026
### [UNSW unveils university-wide Food Security Strategy](/news-events/news/unsw-unveils-university-wide-food-security-strategy)
The new **Food Security Strategy** includes food lockers, cooking classes, an expanded free meals program and Food Hub offering, to help students access affordable, nutritious food.
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- 01 Aug 2025
### [Weaving kindness into the fabric of UNSW's strategic vision](/news-events/news/weaving-kindness-unsw-strategic-vision)
**By multiple authors**across UNSW Faculties and Divisions. Particularly since COVID, the idea of incorporating kindness into the university environment has been receiving increased interest.
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- 16 Oct 2024
### [Innovative game helps educators foster student belonging](/news-events/news/innovative-game-helps-educators-foster-student-belonging)
Helping students feel welcomed and valued also helps them learn. Achieving a welcoming classroom is no accident, yet it can be difficult to find guidance for how to do it.
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- 25 Jun 2024
### [Kind classrooms can change the world](/news-events/news/kind-classrooms-can-change-world)
**By multiple authors**across UNSW Faculties and Divisions
In an age of increasing marketisation, automation and depersonalisation, Pedagogy of Kindness re-centres the human in higher education.
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- 28 Feb 2024
### [Beyond the studies: immersing in arts & culture on campus](/news-events/news/arts-culture-campus)
There's more to uni than studying. Extra-curricular activities such as immersion in arts & culture can have wide-ranging impacts. See how students from a range of faculties benefited from an art-making workshop by Abdullah M. I.
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- 20 Jul 2023
### [More than a course: How an international student found her sense of belonging](/news-events/news/international-student-belonging)
One of our fantastic academics, Mira Kim, interviews one of her students, who took Mira's PELE course and realised that it gave her much more than an academic learning.
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- 19 Apr 2023
### [Myth-busting on curricular approaches to student wellbeing](/news-events/news/myth-busting-approaches-student-wellbeing)
**By Jacky Cranney, Nalini Pather, Leesa Sidhu, Gary Velan;** SEA Fellows
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Scientia Education Academy Fellows discuss how rigorous psychological science of wellbeing translates into curricular design and delivery.
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- 19 Apr 2023
### [The sweet answer to my imposter syndrome](/news-events/news/sweet-answer-imposter-syndrome)
**By Dr Deborah Barros Leal Farias**, UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture
Deborah shares her experience of how handing out free chocolate to her students taught her a life lesson on overcoming imposter syndrome.
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- 27 Mar 2023
### [Celebrations & dedicated support for international UNSW students](/news-events/news/international-unsw-celebration-support)
With many more international students expected to return to campus in 2023, services and support is available to assist in their return to campus, or to kick start their journey.
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- 12 Dec 2022
### [myEnglish Week boosts language confidence](/news-events/news/myenglish-week-boosts-confidence)
UNSW students have found a fun and supportive community of learners and teachers at myEnglish Week. Registrations are now open for Term 1 2023!
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- 12 Dec 2022
### [My First Day: An Empathy Project](/news-events/news/my-first-day-empathy-project)
'My First Day: An Empathy Project' is a collaborative initiative that puts that nerve-racking first day into perspective.
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- 02 Aug 2022
### [Our students’ sense of relatedness & belonging – whose responsibility is it?](/news-events/news/our-students-sense-relatedness-belonging)
**By Jacky Cranney, Nalini Pather, Leesa Sidhu, Gary Velan;** SEA Fellows
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Scientia Education Academy Fellows on building 'relatedness' and 'belonging' for students andhow to address the issue.
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- 18 May 2022
### [Celebrating 20 Years: A Choral Salute](/news-events/news/20-years-choral-salute)
A tribute to Sonia Maddock for her 20 years as Director of UNSW’s Choral program - a place of expression and creativity, and a space of social engagement and belonging.
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- Thu 5 Mar 2026
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12pm - 1pm
### [It’s All About the Students: Helping Them Connect](/news-events/events/students-helping-connect)
Join Mania Alehpour and Renata Zanetti for a workshop on how strategies to develop a safe learning space, supporting inclusion, and active participation in the classroom.
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- Thu 3 July 2025
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9am - 6pm
### [QILT Symposium & NSW Higher Education Summit](/news-events/events/qilt-symposium-nsw-he-summit-2025)
This year, the New South Wales Higher Education Summit is being held in conjunction with UNSW’s inaugural Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) Symposium.
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- Thu 19 June 2025
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11am - 12pm
### [Positive strategies for university wellbeing in turbulent times](/news-events/events/positive-strategies-university-wellbeing)
Join Prof. Paula Brough from Griffith University in exploring evidence-based strategies from the positive psychology movement to help both staff and students navigate turbulent times and boost wellbeing in university settings.
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- Tue 21 May to Wed 24 July
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### [Lightning & Practitioner Workshops Term 2 2024](/news-events/events/practitioner-workshops-t2-2024)
The Lightning & Practitioner Workshops are back for T2! These one-hour workshops touch on key topics in teaching and learning.
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- Wed 31 Jan to Tue 16 Apr
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### [Lightning Workshops T1 2024](/news-events/events/lightning-workshops-t1-2024)
The Lightning Workshops are back for 2024! These workshops are hands-on 1 hour sessions that develop your teaching and course in a collaborative environment.
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