Notes from Gerald Decelles III’s trial lecture & PhD defense
Last week, I had a great day listening first to the trial lecture and then the defense of Gerald Decelles III’s PhD thesis, and it was so inspiring! Both his…
Tag: trust
“Building Trust With Students In The GenAI Era” — an interview with Rachel and myself!
Before Christmas, Rachel and I recorded an interview with my online teaching role model Niya Bond for OneHE, and it has been released now! What do you think?
Currently reading MacInnes et al. (2026) on “Who do we trust on climate change, and why?”
What we believe about climate change often does not depend on what we know about climate change, but on what people around us believe. This makes it really difficult for…
Currently reading Hamshire et al. (2025) on moving on from belonging, to mattering and trust
While I have worked on student sense of belonging myself, I have also long been wondering if it is not much more complicated than that. Hamshire et al. (2025) write…
Listening to “teaching from the same side” on one of my favorite podcasts, Tea for Teaching
I am sitting on the ferry sailing towards Germany, with new-found appreciation of the Öresund bridge and its harp-style carrying cables… And I am listening to a conversation with Michelle…
Now published: Forsyth & Glessmer (2025) on “How teachers build trust with students in the presence of GenAI”
Rachel Forsyth and I are in the process of doing focus group interviews with students and teachers at Lund University on how their relationships to each other are influenced by…
Watching Steen-Johnsen on “Concern and enthusiasm for AI across the globe: the role of trust”
I recently watched a really interesting seminar by Kari Steen-Johnsen (UiO), who is working on the impact of digitalization on democracy. She gave an AI Lund online seminar on “Concern…
On “effective authenticity”, inspired by a Squiggly Careers podcast episode
I just listened to episode 500 of “Squiggly Careers” on “Why Bringing Your Authentic Self to Work Is Bad Advice“. They explore the concept of “effective authenticity […] where you…
Currently reading Kelland (2025) on “The ambiguity of trust in higher education”
Trust is important for learning and it’s the teacher’s job to create conditions in which trust can develop, but can there be too much trust, to the point where it…
Currently reading Gravett (2022)’s book “Relational Pedagogies”, and thinking about parasocial bonding
It all started out with me listening to one of my all-time favourite podcasts, Teaching in Higher Ed, to an episode on designing video with intention and authenticity. Actually, it…
Currently reading Gravett (2025) on “Authentic assessment as relational pedagogy”
Authentic assessment is often understood as students doing practical, real-life, mostly outside-of-university tasks (and universities are often perceived as not part of the “real world” even though they should be,…
Currently reading Gorichanaz (2023): “Accused: How students respond to allegations of using ChatGPT on assessments”
This is an article that I find interesting both because of the method (searching reddit for accounts of student experiences as data sources!) and because of the findings, which I’ll…
Currently reading Curzon-Hobson (2002) on “A Pedagogy of Trust in Higher Learning”
Trust is often perceived as risky — what if students cheat, what if they don’t put in the effort we want them to put in, what if they don’t learn…
Currently reading Carless (2009) on “Trust, distrust and their impact on assessment reform”
Since reading Macfarlane’s chapter the other day, I am thinking a lot about the influence of institutional policies (rather than teacher actions in direct contact with students) on trust. Now…
More reading about GenAI
My notes on GenAI stuff are getting shorter and shorter, and that’s because I am reading the articles with a specific application in mind, and only writing down what seems…
Catching up on reading about GenAI, academic integrity, and trust
Very pleasant working day in Kristianstad yesterday, so today I am doing a sprint, reading stuff about academic misconduct, trust, and GenAI! Here we go with lots of short summaries.
Currently reading Bochniarz et al. (2022) on “Attitudes to AI among high school students: Understanding distrust towards humans will not help us understand distrust towards AI”
This is a very interesting (pre-ChatGPT!) study: Bochniarz et al. (2022) investigate highschool students’ concerns regarding perceived negative intentions of AI, i.e. “cynical hostility” towards AI.
Currently readin Schilke & Reimann (2025) on “The transparency dilemma: How AI disclosure erodes trust”.
When we teach, we have all these policies of how students need to let us know how they used GenAI, and of course the same holds for research publications. Research…
Currently reading Macfarlane (2022) on “The distrust of students as learners: Myths and realities”
What is it with all the distrust in students? Macfarlane (2022) answers this question before the raise of ChatGPT when things probably got even worse… But that doesn’t really matter,…
How and why do students use GenAI feedback? Currently reading Henderson et al. (2025)
More reading on trust in GenAI, today on how and why do students use GenAI feedback. Henderson et al. (2025), “Comparing Generative AI and teacher feedback: student perceptions of usefulness…
Currently reading Goldshtein et al. (2025) on “The role of learner trust in generative artificially intelligent learning environments”
The title of Goldshtein et al. (2025)’s editorial, “The role of learner trust in generative artificially intelligent learning environments“, sounded super intriguing. The question of trust in GenAI is so…
Currently reading Brauner et al. (2023) on ““Trust me, do not trust anyone”: how epistemic mistrust and credulity are associated with conspiracy mentality”
Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and people who believe on one conspiracy theory are highly likely to believe also in others, even if they are completely unrelated to the first one.…
What does the availability of GenAI do to trust between students and teachers? Currently reading Luo (2024)
Cheating is not a new phenomenon by any means, but with the raise of GenAI, it seems to be easier than ever, and teachers seem to be more suspicious than…
It is not up to us to complete the work, but neither are we free to desist from it
I now finished reading Venet (2024)’s “Becoming an Everyday Changemaker: Healing and Justice in School” (where I understood that “the process is the point“, and where then helpful tools like…
Published! “Engineering students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond” (Glessmer, Persson, Forsyth; 2024)
This article was probably the easiest and most fun to write in my whole career so far! Trust between students and teachers is a really engaging topic, so when Rachel…
How do teachers describe what they mean by trust in a teaching context? Currently reading Sutherland et al. (2024)
My own work on what makes students trust teachers was inspired by an interview that I did with Rachel Forsyth (in the botanical garden shown in the featured image, and…
Approaching wicked problem management in higher education (Currently reading: Hamshire, Barrett and Forsyth; 2024)
Quality assurance at universities is often oversimplified: Single events, captured in indicators that rely on one facet, are met with quick interventions, without any understanding of the complexities of the…
“Why students trust teachers, and what we can do to increase their trust”. Keynote at the Lund University conference on inclusive teaching, with Rachel Forsyth and Peter Persson
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of giving a keynote at the “Inclusive Lund University” conference, together with my colleagues Rachel Forsyth and Peter Persson. We talked about our recent study…
Reading about building and rebuilding trust in higher education (Lewicka, 2022)
Lewicka (2022) investigates how trust in higher education institutions is build (and rebuilt). This is a much broader question than the one that we have investigated, but I recognize many…
Summarizing more literature on trust between students and teachers
The assumption that teacher-student relationships are important has been around for a long time and is probably uncontested. But when it comes to describing what exactly makes a good relationship,…
Planning a seminar on relationships in the classroom
In April, I will be teaching one afternoon in a course on “developing and leading courses at LTH”, on what we traditionally called “belonging”. Here are my thoughts so far.…
Students trust teachers who ask, listen, and respond (says my work with Peter Persson and Rachel Forsyth)
In my series of things-I-want-to-say-in-an-upcoming-workshop-but-suspect-I-might-skip-to-make-time-for-participants’-topics, here one slide about a recent study I did with my colleagues Rachel Forsyth and Peter Persson when we got the chance to ask a…
How academic developers think about relationships between teachers (a lot of Roxå & Mårtensson papers, plus some others)
Our work as academic developers at CEE is based on how we think that relationships between teachers work, and using that to influence their conversations in a way that improves…
Trust that teachers have in academic development (Little & Green (2002) and others)
Now that my working assumption is that trust is essential for student learning, what about trust that our “students”, i.e. the participants in our academic development workshops, have in us?…
Teacher-student relationships (Hagenauer et al., 2014 & 2023)
You might have noticed that I am exploring different concepts of what makes a good teacher-student relationship recently: belonging, caring, and most recently, trust. Why am I not just picking…
Revisiting the Hendriks et al. (2016) trust model
After having read about “trust moves” that teachers report making (Felten et al., 2023), and currently working on figuring out what makes students trust their teachers (Persson et al., 2023), I…
Currently investigating: “If I don’t trust my teachers, how can I learn then?” (with Peter Persson and Rachel Forsyth)
I am currently doing this super interesting research project on trust with my colleagues Peter Persson and Rachel Forsyth. Rachel and colleagues developed a model for “trust moves” that teachers employ,…
Currently reading: “Building Trust in the Classroom: A Conceptual Model for Teachers, Scholars, and Academic Developers in Higher Education.” by Felten et al. (2023)
Last summer, I sat in the botanical garden with Rachel Forsyth and had a super interesting conversation about the importance of trust between teachers and students, and what I do…
Outreach is about more than about the perfect presentation (or even the perfect hands-on tank experiment!)
In most of my blog posts on outreach I focus on how to run the _perfect_ experiment. And while I still think that’s awesome, I recently read an article by…
