Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of the need to enact social justice and to address student and staff well-being in in higher education. As a sector we have been encouraged to re-think normative practices and to re-design educational pedagogies and policies that can cause harm to the individuals we want to support. In this session, the speakers introduce their research from the QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project Belonging through Assessment: Pipelines of Compassion. They will introduce compassion as a guiding principle and compassionate feedback as a way to nurture belonging, relationality and trust in our assessment contexts. During the session participants had the opportunity to apply theory to their own context and leave with practical actions that they can implement with their teaching.