Changing the lens: belonging, community, and content
Inca Hide-Wright,
Strategic Project Manager and Educational Researcher with Warwick Venice Centre | Lead of Warwick Building Belonging Framework & WIHEA Learning Community | University of Warwick
What happens when you start looking at belonging through a different lens? In this reflective and practical session, we’ll explore how experimentation, curiosity, and evolving perspectives can help shape stronger communities and more inclusive practice in education.
Using the idea of “changing the lens” as a guide, this session will challenge participants to rethink assumptions, test new approaches, and consider how small shifts in perspective can create meaningful change. Some ideas may sharpen your thinking, others may feel uncomfortable or unfamiliar - but all are designed to encourage deeper reflection on belonging, community, and content.
Alongside honest lessons from building and growing a community of practice, this session will share practical tools and approaches you can take back to your own work.
Key takeaways
Explore how experimentation and evolving perspectives can strengthen belonging and community.
Learn practical approaches for building and scaling a community of practice.
Reflect on how changing your perspective can shape more inclusive content and communication.
About Inca
Inca Hide-Wright (AFHEA) is a current Warwick Graduate Management Trainee, Strategic Projects Lead for Warwick Venice Centre, and Co-Founder and Lead of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy Building Belonging community of practice and body of work. Inca is a systems and design thinker with an MASc in Community, Engagement and Belonging, and BSc (with honours) in Psychology, from the University of Warwick. Inca has experience and expertise in working within a wide array of contexts, audiences, and disciplines including Higher Education, schools and colleges, and the third sector.