- Tuesday, 4 March 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Zoom – further details provided upon registration
Student-staff partnerships bring new ways of thinking, doing, valuing, and being in Higher Education (Gravett, 2023, p.75). Gravett highlights Ali et al.’s (2021) work on the hidden productivity of partnership, which makes universities more productive, fair, and enjoyable places to learn and work (p.77). This shift involves both mindset and practice changes (p.78).
In this forum, we invite participants to reflect on various Students as Partners projects from the curriculum and co-curriculum spaces, including the 2024 SSAF Students as Partners Grant Projects and 2023 FFYE grants (2 and 5). Students have identified areas for improvement and collaborated with staff to achieve remarkable outcomes. Many of these projects can be seamlessly embedded into our practices. The key challenge is sustainability. A staff and student panel will discuss this issue.
We will focus on critical success elements like Mattering (Gravett, 2023), ensuring student voices are heard and respected, and fostering psychological safety. Our goal is to create inclusive, empathetic, and compassionate spaces that encourage open discussion, questions, and trust.
Activities will engage participants in overcoming the challenges of embedding and sustaining co-designed projects, emphasising practical strategies that incorporate Mattering and Psychological Safety principles for effective application into practice.
Academics, student support staff and students are very welcome to register.
This forum is run by Kathy Egea, FFYE Program Coordinator, supported by Jo McKenzie, Alisa Percy, Sascha Jenkins, and Sophie Indraputri.
References
Gravett, K. (2023). Relational pedagogies : connections and mattering in higher education. Bloomsbury Academic. Library – chapter (p. 67-80) Student-Staff Partnerships as Relational Practice
Ali, X., Tatam, J., Gravett, K., & Kinchin, I. M. (2021). Partnership values: An evaluation of student-staff research projects at a UK higher education institution. International Journal for Students as Partners, 5 (1), 12–25. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v5i1.4354
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