Walk with me: Exploring community, belonging and inclusion through walking interviews

<p dir="ltr">In the Spring Term of 2025, I, along with my colleagues <a href="https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p291471-jeanette-ashton" target="_blank">Jeanette Ashton</a> and <a href="https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p328142-jo-wilson" target="_blank">Jo Wilson</a>, ‘walked with’ nine of our first-year students to better understand and explore what community, belonging and inclusion means for them in the everyday. In this blog post, I share the background of the ‘Walk with Me’ project, a bit about walking interviews and some of the preliminary findings from the project, in advance of a longer piece. I hope these findings will be useful as we all prepare for another academic year. The ‘Walk with Me’ project was supported by the Sussex Education and Innovation Fund.</p>