60-Second SoTL – Episode 57

This episode features an open access article exploring how peer support initiatives can facilitate meaningful relationships and sense of belonging when they attend to social connection, shared experience and culture, and interpersonal trust:

Hamshire, Claire, Mimi Benjamin, and Alan Soong Swee Kit. 2025. “What Is the Role of Trust in Peer Support Schemes for Underrepresented Students?” Teaching and Learning Inquiry 13 (January): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.13.8.

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Show Credits

This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric.

60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University.

Music: “Keep Going” by AudioCoffee

Photo in Featured Image by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash

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