This book explores student-staff partnerships through a breadth of co-authored research projects. Written by both university staff and student researchers, the chapters consider the benefits of student-staff partnerships as an antidote to consumerist visions of higher education, and a way of celebrating the potential of students and their voices.

Foreword; Alison Cook-Sather.- Chapter 1. Introduction: context and scope; Nadya Yakovchuk, Karen Gravett and Ian M. Kinchin.- Chapter 2. The emerging landscape of student-staff partnerships in higher education; Lucie Ollis and Karen Gravett.- SECTION I. Collaboration and creativity: exploring innovative partnership approaches.- Chapter 3. Student experience: perspectives on learning in the university and the conservatoire; Seán Hanratty and Anna McNamara.- Chapter 4. Exploring the actor-director relationship in the drama school through a student-tutor dialogue; Darrell Barnard-Jones and Trevor Rawlins.- Chapter 5. Escaping the norm of student-staff partnerships; Julia Anthoney, Julie Low, Samantha Gridley and Chidera Ude.- Chapter 6. Building knowledge and learning communities using LEGO® in nursing; Rachel Stead, Ralitsa Dimitrova, Avgi Pourgoura, Sarah Roberts and Sarah West.- Chapter 7. 3D printers in engineering education; Atefeh Eslahi, Deoraj R. Chadeesingh, Charlotte Foreman and Esat Alpay.- SECTION II. Evaluating teaching and learning approaches.- Chapter 8. Captured content and lecture recordings: perceptions and experiences of students and lecturers; Venetia Evergeti and Harry Garside.- Chapter 9. Captured content, captured attention?; Teodora-Patricia Pelea and Tom Lunt.- Chapter 10. A comparison of student perceptions of physical and virtual engineering laboratory classes; Charlotte Foreman, Mary Hilditch, Nicole Rockliff and Holly Clarke.- Chapter 11. Skills developed by economics students during their professional training year; Miguel Flores and Bardees Elmenofy.- Chapter 12. Exploring the benefits of project-based pilot plant experience for chemical engineering undergraduates; Benjamin Cooper, Rex Thorpe and Esat Alpay.- Chapter 13. Student perspectives on a nutrition curriculum; Katrina Kwong and Adam Collins.- Chapter 14. Learner engagement on a blended ethics education programme: perspectives of students and teachers; Barry Costello, Julia Brennan, Colin Loughlin and Ann Gallagher.- SECTION III. Partnership approaches to assessment, feedback and student-staff dialogue.- Chapter 15. Student nurses' experiences of receiving verbal feedback within the clinical learning environment: to what extent does this promote sustainable feedback practices?; Julie Panzieri and Cathrine Derham.- Chapter 16. Facilitating students' proactive recipience of feedback with feedback portfolios; Kieran Balloo and Aka Vashakidze.- Chapter 17. An innovative presentation tool as an alternative to traditional methods for student assessments; Andrew Hulton and Kyle Gapper.- Chapter 18. Maximising student participation: factors that facilitate dialogue; Katerina Ridge and Saima Islania.- Chapter 19. Using mindfulness meditation techniques to support peer-to-peer dialogue in seminars; Allan Kilner-Johnson and Edidiong Udofia.- SECTION IV. Staff-student partnerships: reflections and considerations.- Chapter 20. Creating space for new expertise: considerations for setting up student-staff partnerships; Irina O. Niculescu, Simran Nagpal and Roger Rees.- Chapter 21. Student-staff partnerships in higher education as process and approach; Ameena Khan Sullivan and Marion Heron.- Chapter 22. Conclusions: the future of student-staff partnerships; Ian M. Kinchin, Karen Gravett and Nadya Yakovchuk.

​“This book explores an innovative model of partnership between students, staff and academic developers in undertaking research into higher education practices and policies across an institution. By presenting a transformative vision of partnership in learning, teaching and research, which has the potential to change institutional culture, it addresses one of the most important issues facing higher education in the 21st century. I recommend it for readers in universities  internationally.” —Mick Healey, Higher Education Consultant and Researcher, UK“Born from a small group within a single institution, this book exemplifies how student-staff partnership in higher education can grow to permeate individual, institutional, disciplinary, and theoretical boundaries. Readers will find pages filled with practical examples, research findings, and thought-provoking ideas which zoom from the individual partnership relationship to the landscape of partnership across the sector. Whether new to the field or looking for developmental inspiration, there’s something for everyone within this delightful anthology.”—Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, University of Technology Sydney, Australia“This book has international relevance. It demonstrates the benefits of student-staff partnerships in capturing the diverse voices of both students and staff. The resulting text provides the reader with a multitude of examples of how to carry out partnership, and also allows for a deeper exploration of the theories behind the practice.” —Sam L. Dvorakova, PhD student, University of Edinburgh, UK

Fills an important gap in the current literature by sharing examples of student-staff partnerships Illuminate the diversity of routes students and staff can take to work, create and research in partnership Argues that student-staff partnerships can be viewed as an antidote to consumerist visions of higher education