Inclusion and diversity are themes at the
forefront of education development and the subject of
much institutional level policy. However, there are
differences that can be made at the course or even
module level by local teams that will both
compliment institutional policy and have an
immediate impact on students. This paper aims to
describe the process taken to embed diversity and
inclusion into an online career development short
course. We will explain how user experience
personas, created in the design phase of the course,
developed into an integral part of the course
curriculum and how they are used to show diversity
to a fully asynchronous online cohort. We discuss
how theories of pedagogy and design can be
combined to have a positive impact on the sense of
belong for all students. Finally, we explore how
these theories can be applied to wider practice and
offer suggestions for how other courses can use our
process to embed elements of diversity into their
programmes, and hopefully increase a sense of
student belonging.