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Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia
Beatriz Severes, Ana O. Henriques, Rory Clark, Paulo Bala, Anna Carter, Rua Mae Williams, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01690

Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia
Academic well-being is deeply influenced by peer-support networks, yet they remain informal, inequitable, and unsustainable, often relying on personal connections and social capital rather than structured, inclusive systems. Additionally, institutional well-being responses frequently focus on student populations, neglecting the emotional labour of faculty and staff, reinforcing an exclusionary academic culture. Drawing on HCI methodologies, participatory design, and care ethics, this workshop w…