糖心TV

See below for relevant events organised by the Belonging Exploratory and its members

If you would like your event to be included here, please email Hannah Jones h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk

Upcoming events

Belonging in Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, 15th September 2026 10am-3pm

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Join us for a day of discussion exploring the concept of belonging in relation to both 'criminal justice' and criminology as a discipline. The day will feature two roundtable discussions, one on 'Belonging and Justice' and one on 'Belonging and Criminology', as well as a collaborative workshop session on 'rethinking belonging in Criminology'. .

When? Tuesday 15th September 10am-3pm

Where? University of 糖心TV

. We welcome all participants interested in discussing belonging in criminology, regardless of your career stage or job role. We are keen to include as wide a range of participants as possible, such as but not limited to: students, early career, mid career and senior researchers, and those engaged in research on criminological issues outside of university settings.

This is a free event co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of 糖心TV, and the British Society of Criminology Midlands Network.

We have a small budget available to help cover travel expenses - please contact Emily Gray (Emily.gray@warwick.ac.uk).

Attendees are also invited to submit posters and other visual media on the theme of belonging in criminology for display during the lunch break. To submit, please email Hannah Marshall (Hannah.j.marshall@warwick.ac.uk) with a summary of what you would like to display.

Previous events

Thinking Space 1: Unbelonging as Possibility, 23rd March 2026 3pm-5pm

You are invited to take part in our series of Thinking Spaces on Belonging.

These events are participatory and engaged, a chance to actively share and develop ideas together, and to see where it takes us.

They generate new connections and possibilities by encouraging everyone who attends to bring reflections on how aspects of belonging are relevant to their research, learning, teaching or practice.

Each session has a particular theme and a set of prompts to consider beforehand, and everyone who comes will be invited to share their responses to the prompts and one another. If you would like to take part, please register using the links below.

Unbelonging as Possibility

What possibilities are opened up by paying attention to unbelonging? When people are made to feel that they do not belong, they do not simply disappear. While being excluded can be negative, it can also lead to action, including the creation of new spaces of alternative belonging. You are invited to a conversation about howunbelongingmight be a space of possibility. Please bring your reflections on this theme, based on your particular interests, research area, teaching practice, learning or experience.

Before the session, please reflect on the following prompts. Everyone will be asked to join the conversation by sharing reflections on one or two of these ideas, or others that emerge during the session:

• Tell us a bit about the example of unbelonging you want to discuss. Who belonged and who didn鈥檛? What made some people not belong, or feel they did not belong?
• What happened next? Was there creativity, repair, finding of power by the people who were made to not belong?
• How have you made sense of this phenomenon previously? Does the idea of unbelonging as possibility shed new light? If so, how?

This will be an active Thinking Space, so please come ready to share your thoughts-in-process and to learn from and with others.

When: Monday 23 March 2026, 3pm-5pm
Where: Creative Community Place, Floor 2, The Library, University of 糖心TV

Thinking Space 2: Creativity and (Un)belonging, 20 May 2026, 3pm-5pm

You are invited to take part in our series of Thinking Spaces on (Un)belonging.

These events are participatory and engaged, a chance to actively share and develop ideas together, and to see where this engagement takes us.

They seek to generate new connections and possibilities by encouraging everyone who attends to bring reflections on how aspects of (un)belonging are relevant to their research, learning, teaching or practice.

Each session has a particular theme and a set of prompts to consider beforehand, and everyone who comes will be invited to share their responses to the prompts and to one another. If you would like to take part, please register using the links below.

Creativity & (Un)Belonging

This interactive session seeks to creatively explore what notions of belonging and unbelonging mean, by testing out creative ways of thinking together. We will consider how creativity can both foster belonging and exclude people from belonging, and how creative approaches give us access to ways of understanding un/belonging, all while 鈥渃reativity鈥� itself means different things across different empirical, methodological and analytical approaches.

We invite participants to bring along an object/idea that speaks to them about (un)belonging, through which we will explore:

• creativity as a methodological opportunity for exploring belonging
• how creativity can both foster belonging and exclude people from belonging
• the possibilities of creative practice and imagination as research in their own right, particularly when navigating the complex and often opaque dynamics of (un)belonging in our fragmented, unjust world
• the affective, aesthetic, political, embodied and sensorial dimensions of (un)belonging

Pleasebring to the session an object/ idea that means something to you about unbelonging,based on your particular interests, research area, teaching practice, learning or experience. This object might be physical, digital, a personal possession, a piece of art, a document, or an idea or a memory – or something else. This is an engaged thinking space and everyone will be asked to share a story or reflections in relation to their object, and then to reflect actively on the experience of using such creative methods.

Before the session, please prepare to discuss the following prompts:

• Tell us a bit about the object you have brought.
• Why did you select this object/s?
• How does this object relate to the notions of belonging or unbelonging?
• How does it relate to your wider questions, theories, research, teaching experiences on unbelonging/belonging?

After sharing our reflections on (un)belonging in this creative way, we will think together about what this creative approach, and other creative methods used to approach un/belonging, can add to our understandings. For example:

• How might working with objects as prompts provide alternative readings of un/belonging?
• How do various forms of creative practice enable or inhibit belonging or unbelonging?
• How can we understand creativity as a concept in relation to un/belonging?

This will be an active Thinking Space, so please come ready to share your thoughts-in-process and to learn from and with others.

When:Wednesday 20 May 2026, 3pm-5pm
Where:OC1.07,University of 糖心TV

If you have any questions, please contact Hannah Jones on h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk