Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club For our October Journal Club, we will meet to discuss:Denise Goerisch, Ty Krueger, Madison Edwards, ‘Considering ethics of care in online learning spaces’, Digital Geography and Society, Volume 6, 2024, 100087.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100087'At the start of the COVID-19 global pandemic, many American universities and colleges abruptly shifted online to reduce the spread of infection. The shift, while framed as a way to accommodate and care for the broader campus community, created new inequalities and exacerbated existing inequities among students, faculty, and staff. Faculty were introduced to forms of technology and digital media used to surveil students, such as anti- plagiarism software, invasive online exam proctoring, and recorded Zoom class sessions. Universities framed the use of technology students during a time of crisis as an act of care, but also engendered spaces of surveillance, distrust, and harm in the digital landscape. Rooted in neoliberal ideologies, care within university digital spaces is framed as an objective or function wherein the university cares about or cares for its students, faculty, and staff, rather than pursuing more equitable, democratic, and socially just models of care ethics. Based on qualitative research conducted on university responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, we argue that universities frame surveillance within digital spaces as an act of care, specifically through the antiquated model in loco parentis. We provide recommendations for universities to move towards more equitable care and discuss the ethics of care concerning surveillance in digital spaces.'The paper is available to download here (UoE login required). You will want to set aside about an hour to engage with the paper in advance each time, but if you are running short on time, just read what you can.This edition of Journal Club will be co-hosted with Dr Megan Douglas and Inga Ackermann, from the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme.Megan and Inga will start the Club with a ten-minute overview of the paper, before we open the room up to discussion. The meeting ends at 1.30pm, but the room is booked until 2pm and you are welcome to stay to talk more and connect with each other.To join the mail-list, RSVP and receive the articles by email in advance, please email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk. Oct 27 2026 13.00 - 14.00 Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club Open to all staff in support, wellbeing, and experience roles, and interested others across UoE. Meets hybrid, every two months. The Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club meets to discuss recent, qualitative, accessible research that explores the complexities of work on the ground supporting students, whether dealing with mitigating circumstances, homesickness, or social struggles. It is led by Dr Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain. We meet in the Teams Area, upstairs in the Chaplaincy, Bristo Square, often over lunchtime. You are warmly encouraged to bring your lunch, with a microwave, crockery and cutlery available both downstairs in the Common Room kitchen and upstairs in the staff Team Area, where we’ll meet. Tea and coffee will be provided. Feel free to arrive a little early to get yourself settled for a prompt start. The Journal Club has so far brought you research by an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a historian, and we have a geography paper upcoming... Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Sqaure This article was published on Tuesday 19 May 2026
Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club For our October Journal Club, we will meet to discuss:Denise Goerisch, Ty Krueger, Madison Edwards, ‘Considering ethics of care in online learning spaces’, Digital Geography and Society, Volume 6, 2024, 100087.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100087'At the start of the COVID-19 global pandemic, many American universities and colleges abruptly shifted online to reduce the spread of infection. The shift, while framed as a way to accommodate and care for the broader campus community, created new inequalities and exacerbated existing inequities among students, faculty, and staff. Faculty were introduced to forms of technology and digital media used to surveil students, such as anti- plagiarism software, invasive online exam proctoring, and recorded Zoom class sessions. Universities framed the use of technology students during a time of crisis as an act of care, but also engendered spaces of surveillance, distrust, and harm in the digital landscape. Rooted in neoliberal ideologies, care within university digital spaces is framed as an objective or function wherein the university cares about or cares for its students, faculty, and staff, rather than pursuing more equitable, democratic, and socially just models of care ethics. Based on qualitative research conducted on university responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, we argue that universities frame surveillance within digital spaces as an act of care, specifically through the antiquated model in loco parentis. We provide recommendations for universities to move towards more equitable care and discuss the ethics of care concerning surveillance in digital spaces.'The paper is available to download here (UoE login required). You will want to set aside about an hour to engage with the paper in advance each time, but if you are running short on time, just read what you can.This edition of Journal Club will be co-hosted with Dr Megan Douglas and Inga Ackermann, from the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme.Megan and Inga will start the Club with a ten-minute overview of the paper, before we open the room up to discussion. The meeting ends at 1.30pm, but the room is booked until 2pm and you are welcome to stay to talk more and connect with each other.To join the mail-list, RSVP and receive the articles by email in advance, please email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk. Oct 27 2026 13.00 - 14.00 Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club Open to all staff in support, wellbeing, and experience roles, and interested others across UoE. Meets hybrid, every two months. The Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club meets to discuss recent, qualitative, accessible research that explores the complexities of work on the ground supporting students, whether dealing with mitigating circumstances, homesickness, or social struggles. It is led by Dr Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain. We meet in the Teams Area, upstairs in the Chaplaincy, Bristo Square, often over lunchtime. You are warmly encouraged to bring your lunch, with a microwave, crockery and cutlery available both downstairs in the Common Room kitchen and upstairs in the staff Team Area, where we’ll meet. Tea and coffee will be provided. Feel free to arrive a little early to get yourself settled for a prompt start. The Journal Club has so far brought you research by an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a historian, and we have a geography paper upcoming... Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Sqaure This article was published on Tuesday 19 May 2026
Oct 27 2026 13.00 - 14.00 Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club Open to all staff in support, wellbeing, and experience roles, and interested others across UoE. Meets hybrid, every two months. The Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club meets to discuss recent, qualitative, accessible research that explores the complexities of work on the ground supporting students, whether dealing with mitigating circumstances, homesickness, or social struggles. It is led by Dr Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain. We meet in the Teams Area, upstairs in the Chaplaincy, Bristo Square, often over lunchtime. You are warmly encouraged to bring your lunch, with a microwave, crockery and cutlery available both downstairs in the Common Room kitchen and upstairs in the staff Team Area, where we’ll meet. Tea and coffee will be provided. Feel free to arrive a little early to get yourself settled for a prompt start. The Journal Club has so far brought you research by an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a historian, and we have a geography paper upcoming...
