What is Student-Staff Partnership?
Student–Staff Partnerships are processes where students and staff work together in a supportive and respectful way. Everyone involved has a chance to share ideas and take part, even if their roles are different. These partnerships can include co‑creating course content, shaping teaching approaches, making decisions, putting ideas into practice, or reflecting on and evaluating learning and teaching.
A common, more formal definition proposed by Cook-Sather et al. states:
"Student-Staff Partnerships are defined as “collaborative, reciprocal processes through which all participants have the opportunity to contribute equally, although not necessarily in the same ways, to curricular or pedagogical conceptualization, decision making, implementation, investigation, or analysis”
Cook-Sather, A., Bovill, C., Felten, P., & Weimer, M. (2014). Engaging students as partners in learning and teaching: A guide for faculty (First edition). Jossey-Bass.
At the University of Glasgow, there are different ways in which students and staff can work in partnership:
Student Representation
The University works with the SRC and with the Class Reps they support to improve the student experience at the University. Student Representation is key to decision making at the University. SRC Council members are active members of committees at all levels throughout the University, and class reps work locally with staff in their schools to solve issues and implement enhancement at course level.
Student-Staff Partnership Schemes
The learning and teaching student-staff partnership schemes specifically target co-creation partnership work between students and members of academic staff to work together in ways that reflect the commitments in the Learning and Teaching Strategy
The funding schemes pay for student partners to undertake the project (a maximum of 110 hours per student partner, with no more than 20 hours worked in any week). There can be more than one student partner per project, normally a maximum of three, though a case can be made for more where this was required by the nature and aims of the project.
For more information on the schemes, visit the Sharepoint site [Uofg sign-in required]