Exploring compassionate feedback – a collaboration between UAL and Glasgow School of Art

This paper reports on a collaboration between UAL and Glasgow School of Art to explore ideas of compassion and belonging in feedback as part of the QAA collaborative project, Belonging in Assessment, Pipelines of Compassion (UAL, Leeds Arts University and Glasgow School of Art). We discuss a small collaborative staff workshop which explored what compassionate feedback might look like, the advice we might give to ourselves, our colleagues, and students regarding the formative assessment process and the learning within it, including within our current landscape of blended feedback and assessment modes.