Why Students Say One Thing and Do Another: Making Your Residence Life Programme Work Harder
Reflections from “Building Connections: The Power of Residence Life in Student Experience” | CUBO Residence Life Conference 2026 | Part Two of Two By Heba Khan, Marketing Coordinator, Kinetic This is the second of two articles drawing on research presented by Sarah Ead, Head of Insight at GSL, at the CUBO Residence Life Conference 2026. […]
The Belonging Problem: Why First Impressions in Student Accommodation Are Harder to Fix Than You Think
Reflections from “Building Connections: The Power of Residence Life in Student Experience” | CUBO Residence Life Conference 2026 | Part One of Two By Heba Khan, Marketing Coordinator, Kinetic At the CUBO Residence Life Conference 2026, Sarah Ead, Head of Insight at GSL, presented preliminary findings from their annual student experience report ahead of its […]
The Inspection Backlog Hiding in Plain Sight
It’s time to catch up, to protect your resources. By Clare Ody, FIoL, PC.dp.(GDPR), VP Brand and Partnerships, Kinetic Picture the scene: It is the end of term. A small accommodation team is working through a stack of paper inspection sheets, cross-referencing with a spreadsheet, trying to confirm which rooms need maintenance sign-off before the […]
Stop Running Events. Start Building a Curriculum.
Reflections from “Building Co-Curricular Development into Your Residence Life Programme” | CUBO Residence Life Conference 2026 By Heba Khan, Marketing Coordinator, Kinetic There is a version of residence life that looks like this: a team works hard all year, putting on event after event, responding to whatever students say they want, measuring success by how […]
What Students Say vs. What Students Need: Reflections from CUBO Residence Life Conference 2026
By Heba Khan, Marketing Coordinator, Kinetic I’ll be honest: walking back into Loughborough University this week felt strange in the best way. The last time I was here, I was a student. This time, I was attending the CUBO Residence Life Conference 2026 as part of the Kinetic team. Two days, several sessions, a lot […]
What Does Taking Action for Your Mental Health Actually Look Like?
Reflections from the team at Kinetic, for Mental Health Awareness Week 2026 This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is Action – for yourself, for someone else, for all of us. It’s a theme that resonates. Because we’ve all become pretty good at talking about mental health. What’s harder is the bit that comes […]
Vulnerability Creates Connection | Women in PBSA Summit 2026
At the Women in PBSA Summit in Marrakesh, Pip found herself thinking less about the data and more about the moments of honesty in the room. The conversations where people admitted what they didn’t know, or named what wasn’t working. This article is Pip’s personal reflection on those moments, and on what might change if […]
Mental Health Awareness Week: Stop Waiting. Start Acting.
At Kinetic, we’re passionate about the well-being of our communities: residents, teams and partners alike. That’s why we’re proud to share this piece from our partner, Garrett Learning (Wendy Garrett – Garrett Learning), ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week 2026. Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 11 to 17 May 2026, and this year’s theme […]
Beyond lunch: strategic catering for successful university events
Academic events can be vibrant places, full of knowledge exchange, collaboration, and networking. Of course, the speakers will take centre stage, but catering can have an undeniably huge role in shaping how people feel, whether it’s a spot-on spread raising the experience for everyone, or a disappointing selection hitting the wrong note. So what does […]
Making everyone welcome: the importance of inclusive catering in universities
Food can be a powerful part of making sure that people feel welcome, which means that accommodating diverse dietary needs on university campuses is not just a box to be ticked, but a way to demonstrate respect and boost satisfaction and loyalty. But the spectrum of dietary needs to be considered is broad, encompassing allergies, […]
